Livin’ The Vida Copa

In case you hadn’t noticed (and if you’re in Britain you can almost certainly be forgiven this), the Copa America got under way in Venezuela last week. I’m not sure why the British press ignore this – after all, there’s precious little happening in the football universe at the moment, and the quality of football [...]

Footballers Dressed As Ducks

Now then. NOW THEN. I promised you ducks dressed as footballers, and here’s the first two. Can you work out which one was done by me, and which was done by proper artist/cartoonist Little Dotmund? The first correct answer wins an oven ready goose, dressed in a Racing Santander away shirt.

Hugh Johns

I stand to be corrected on this, but unconfirmed reports are stating that the former ITV football commentator Hugh Johns has died at the age of 83. In the 1990s, retrospectives about the history of football on ITV staked a claim that Brian Moore was a behemoth of British sports broadcasting in the same way [...]

As Some Of You May Have Noticed…

…This place looks a little bit different today and, more to the point, it doesn’t look quite “right”. I’ve been fiddling about with a new stylesheet and it’s nearly (but not quite) finished. Last night I remembered why I hadn’t touched the look of this place for some considerable time. Anyway, I remain confident that [...]

The Times, They Are a-Changin’…

I didn’t put anything up on here last night because I was fiddling about doing geeky things. Unforgiveable, I know. I have to say that I’ve never been enormously impressed with Blogger and the templates and CSS, and since I’ve been using WordPress I’ve found that it’s much more intuitive, better to look at and [...]

Be Careful What You Wish For…

Existentialism. Now, there’s a topic. I don’t really want to delve too deeply into the subject (not least because I try to hide my ignorance of this sort of thing on here), but a discussion that I had in the pub yesterday afternoon set me thinking. Now, any discussion of this particular philosophical strand can [...]

City Of Dreams

I occasionally feel as if the football world is living in the last days of Rome. The lead piping that drove the Empire mad is being recreated by the strange band of investors that have decided that Premier League football is the place to be, and the poisoned water is money, which will slowly but [...]

A Bridge Over Troubled Water

As I briefly mentioned last night, in the summer, the “silly season” kicks in. As parliament breaks up for the summer, news desks run out of stories to print, and the assorted hacks start looking elsewhere for items to fill up the column inches, and stories that would never otherwise be allowed near our hallowed [...]

Alexi’s Sale

I’m starting to get the feeling that there is a media conspiracy in the media on both sides of the Atlantic to cause antagonism and friction between English football supporters and their American counterparts. The latest salvo in this “war” (and remember, kids that this is a very quiet time of year on British newspaper [...]

The Kids Are Alright

Walking back from work through the centre of Brighton earlier this evening, I noted that one of the pubs was advertising England’s semi-final in the Under-21 Euros against Holland last night. I was somewhat surprised by this. I mean, I know that it would be kind of nice for an England team to win something [...]