It is results that matter
Of course we would ALL like to watch a Ajaxbarcabrazillianesque style of football week in week out but in truth it is the end result that matters the most. Forums, Twitter and phone-ins are awash with angry folk when their team suffers a defeat not with what the style of the 1-0 victory was like. […]
The Transfer Window
Well we are coming up to a week of the hyperbole that is the madness of January, not the SCS or Next sale but SkySports Transfer Window © with yellow being the “in” colour. Now as you may or may not know “I Love Football” and I am getting sick to death of this moronic coverage of […]
Football Books that I’ve found under the Christmas tree
Ah Christmas, my favourite time of the year, dark nights, heating on, lights twinkling in the window, carols from Kings College, tons of chocolate, sacks full of nuts (Oooer Missus!) and of course the presents! Every Christmas present pile since I can remember has contained at least a couple of books. The first thing I […]
The Football Remembers Christmas Truce 1914.
The Football Remembers Christmas Truce 1914 memorial has been unveiled in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Designed by competition winner, ten-year-old Spencer Turner from Farne Primary in Newcastle, the memorial was unveiled by HRH The Duke of Cambridge. Until now, there has been no memorial on the 150-acre site dedicated to the Christmas Truce […]
From soccer to the NFL
Cairo Santos a promising “soccer” player, aged 15 he left his home in San Paulo as a foreign exchange student to stay at St. Joseph’s Academy in St Augustine in Florida for one year to learn English whilst continuing playing the eleven side game. One day he strolled onto the grid iron field with his mates and said […]
Atherton Collieries FC “Unbeaten all season”
Well unbeaten isn’t strictly true, they went out of the FA Cup in the replay on penalties to Radcliffe Borough so really that doesn’t count in the grand scheme of things. “The Colls” are a joy to watch, especially at home on their massively sloping pitch, goals are a plenty especially in the oppositions net, […]
The shirt of your back is wanted …
This is nothing new, appeals like this have been done before but if you are clearing out the drawers, shelves, wardrobes etc, etc & you come across those football/sport shirts you no longer want how about sending them to a most deserving cause? The FSF (Football Supporters Federation) have teamed up with their Euro counterparts The […]
England’s Low Crowds, the FA, NFL Teams and Wembley ownership!
I know that’s some title, but it comes from waking up to news that the FA have gone in to typical PR Spin & shot themselves in the foot AGAIN. How, well reading the BBC’s article this morning: On first glance, you’ll see the FA spinning with the fact they know it’ll be yet another […]