Football May Or May Not Be Coming Home

In arguably the least surprising piece of sports news of the week, the Football Association has finally confirmed that yes, England will be bidding to host the World Cup. Well, we’d never have guessed, would we? It will have been fifty-two years since “The Home Of Football” (and that’s the sort of phrase that you [...]

A Smart Bit Of Business

Here’s a very quick trivia question for you: what one thing did the England 1966 World Cup winning team, the Liverpool team that won European Cups in 1978, 1981 and 1984, the Brazil team that won the World Cup in 1994 and the Manchester United team that won the 1999 European Cup all have in [...]

Hung, Drawn And Quartered

If you heard a clattering noise in the distance at about 4.50 on Saturday afternoon and couldn’t quite work out what it was, it was the sound of the wheels falling spectacularly off the Manchester City bandwagon. They held onto third place by dint of Liverpool and Arsenal cancelling each other out on Sunday afternoon, [...]

Your Sunday Night Radio

It’s Sunday night, so here’s some more Baker & Kelly, from the 19th December 1998. It should help to ease the pain of those long winter evenings.
11.30
17.30

The Final Hurdle

It’s the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup tomorrow. For our non-British (and, I suppose, ill-educated) readers, this is the round before what the FA still (magnificently) called the “First Round Proper”, when the Football League clubs from League One and League Two. Such, however, is the division line between the professional clubs and [...]

Oh, Is It Thursday Night Again Already?

Taking a day off in the middle of the week really plays havoc with my body clock, you see. A couple of quick thoughts on the first half hour of the Spurs match against Getafe in the UEFA Cup (and I would add that live football on the television on Thursday nights throws my body [...]

At What Point Does It Become A Crisis?

So, at what point does it become a crisis, then? We are now over a quarter of the way through the season, and Spurs are in the Premier League relegation places. What’s more, they’ve been there for a while, and haven’t shown any improvement since they lost at Sunderland on the opening day of the [...]

You May Notice…

This place being a bit quieter over the next few days or so. I will still, hopefully, be posting every other day, and this will be alternated with “The Box In The Corner”, which I have noticed has fallen into a state of disrepair (thanks to my own neglect) – the other place is to [...]

How Many Candles?

During the summer, there were audible gasps when Puma released Spurs’ kits – alongside the white home kit and very, very dark blue change kits was a white and sky blue halved number, which looked like a Blackburn home shirt that had been left out in the sun for too long. All became apparent in [...]

Sunday Night Baker & Kelly

We’re coming to the end of this run of Baker & Kelly shows from 1998 – there just three left after tonight’s edition. However, there will still be 9 episodes of “Baker & Kelly Up Front” from 2002 after this little run has finished. Anyway, here are tonight’s two episodes:
12.00
17.30
Several years ago, a guy [...]