A Tale Of Two Cities

It takes quite an effort to provide a crashing comedown after making the European Cup semi-finals for the third time on four years (or whatever), but Liverpool’s ownersm seem, somehow, to have managed it. Tom Hicks’ letter to Liverpool’s chief executive Rick Parry, in which he asked him to resign, doesn’t carry any weight. In [...]

Easter Shopping Options

On the 30th March, Grimsby Town take on Milton Keynes Dons in the final of the Johnstones Paint Trophy at Wembley Stadium. Now, if you’ve been reading this site for any period of time, you’ll know my opinion on Milton Keynes and, indeed, the freaks that have started following them, and I’m not going to [...]

What The Premier League Thinks Of You – A Response

It has taken me the best part of twenty-four hours to fully ingest the message that I put up on here last night. At first, I thought that it must be fake. However, Tom at Pitch Invasion’s source for it is impeccable, and there is no reason to think that it is anything other than [...]

What The Premier League Thinks Of You

I’ve copied this over from “Pitch Invasion”, and will be putting up a reply to it on here later on. An open letter to Richard Scudamore, if you like. It is, I think, a critical read if you are an English football supporter. I have made a few amendments to the formatting, but every word [...]

Football Shorts 4

Well, it’s another Tuesday night, and another chance for me to catch up on all the things that have been distracting my tiny brain over the last few days or so (Caution: The following posts are small items that I don’t have the time or inclination to write complete pieces about, but that I do [...]

He’s At it Again

It looks like Leeds United’s Ken Bates started legal action against his team’s fifteen point deduction for not following Football League rules on administration just in time because, on the pitch, his team is falling to pieces. They haven’t won a single match in their last seven games, and have collapsed from being being contenders [...]

Another Fabulous FA Fudge

You wouldn’t have expected an outright condemnation straight away, would you? I mean, it would surely be asking too much for the FA to take one look at Scudamore’s Insane Plan For Global Domination and say, “You know, the only reason they’re doing this is to get even richer than they already are. They’ll give [...]

Mock The Week

What a week we’ve had. As the wheels have started to come off Scudamore’s Insane Experiment, the world has started to line up to criticise it all, but the damage may be long term. The FA’s initial silence on the matter could already have blown England’s World Cup bid out the window, and the practical [...]

Viva La Revolution!

As you will have already hopefully read elsewhere, it now seems highly likely that a Trust run team of some description going by the name of AFC Liverpool will be started up. As happened at Manchester United several years ago, disenchantment with the politics surrounding a club is causing a number of its supporters to [...]

Now – This Is Just Too Good

Many of you will already be aware of the concept of “jumping the shark”. Named for an episode of “Happy Days” in which The Fonz jumped over a shark on a pair of water skis, it has come to signify a step too far. A metaphorical line which has been overstepped. Today, as you may [...]