As some of you may well be aware, I’m somewhat averse to any person or organisation that attempts to describe themselves as “The Heart & Soul Of Football”. One of the small pleasures of this season was watching Arsenal fans looking more and more crestfallen as their own brand of football looked toothless against [...]
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In all the excitement of the play-offs and the anniversary of Heysel, I forgot to mention that this little blog passed its first birthday on Monday. Time, I think, to thank you lot for bothering to read it. It has been, I have to say, quite a year. Your votes helped to send me, of [...]
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…that I haven’t updated this place as much as I should have done over the last few days or so. I have been massively, massively busy, brain damaging myself in a wondrous variety of ways. Also, I’ve been struggling to think of very much to say that hasn’t been personally abusive about Ken Bates and, [...]
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The 29th of May is a date that symbolizes the best and worst of what it means to be a football supporter. On the one hand, it’s the anniversary of one of European football’s most infamous disasters, but on the other it’s the anniversary of the fermentation of a revolt which would lead to one [...]
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Whew. Finally. It’s all over. At Wembley this afternoon, Derby County beat West Bromwich Albion in the £200m play-off. In truth, West Brom were somewhat unfortunate – they had the majority of the play, even before Derby scored – but, over the course of the season, they thoroughly deserved their promotion. They sat in the [...]
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This time, it’s definitely the final weekend of the season. I promise. I know what you’re thinking here – “How can we trust him on this? He said it on the last day of the Football League season, he said it on the last day of the Premiership season, he said it before the FA [...]
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You know what? I think I deserve a night off from insightful football writing. In fact, I thought that just over a year ago, and have been keeping it up admirably ever since. Ho ho. Actually, after last night’s European Cup final gubbins, I could just do with an evening in front of the television [...]
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Well. WELL. It’s the biggest night in the entire history of world football, until this time next year, when it will be EVEN BIGGER. Liverpool vs Milan will not be a patch on the match that these two teams played out two years ago, of course, when Milan began their post-match celebrations at half-time and [...]
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There’s a football match on tomorrow night. Had you heard? I’ll be on here with minute-by-minute updates on the European Cup Final between Milan and Liverpool. I bet you just can’t wait for that, can you? I’ve come to the conclusion that I want Milan to win this, but I can probably cope with it [...]
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There are some football clubs, as we’ve discussed on here before, that could be described as “cursed”. Newcastle United and Manchester City fall into this category, but none are quite as cursed as Wolverhampton Wanderers. As more or less anyone in football or the football media will tell you, Wolves are a “big” club. It [...]
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