During the war, as Uncle Albert once said, Football took a back stage to rather more important events and was regionalised into a smaller competition because it was not deemed safe enough to carry on as ‘normal’. During covid-19, football originally took its hit, was told to cease and immediately was deemed ‘not important’ nor […]

I wanted to stop myself writing negatively today as it seems I have a vendetta against the FA, VAR, UEFA, FIFA & IFAB as I often think I can run all those organisations ‘better’ from my kitchen and on my laptop than the whole of the numptys put in charge throughout… That of course is […]

Monday 13th June 2020 saw the best and worst of football as Arab owned billionaire super club Manchester City took on UEFA and won to cast a darkened cloud over the sport whilst little known Wycombe Wanderers of League One did their best to redeem some sunlight back on the game of soccer in winning […]

As I write this at 3:13pm on a Wednesday afternoon, Millwall are hosting Middlesbrough in the Championship right now in a match not on TV and not available for fans to go and see. Seems pretty pointless to me? But that’s what football has become. The Premier League will be all wiped up come the […]

So after more than three months of debating ‘how the Premier League season should end’ little more than a week after its restart… And the whole thing has bloody finished already. Liverpool crowned champions and deserved too, the formality that followed the delayed precession took just eight days from the comeback of football in England […]

We can finally say it… The waiting is over, the discussions have all been discussed, safety now into play, resumption resumed, it’s time to play some ball… Yes football is back (on our TV screens at least). Those watching for the first-time last night as the Premier League once again hit our subscription packages may […]

It was John Barnes who pretty much summed 2020 up with one social media tweet. Whilst trying to forward on a political image sent to him by a friend at the weekend referring to the failings of Donald Trump he accidentally copied in his camera roll and attached a number of porn videos across the […]

A few days into lockdown I like many decided to substitute the lack of live football games on earth at the time with re-runs of classic matches, clips of great players and reminiscing special moments along with filling out those ‘best ever XI’ team line-ups that people kept sending around various social media channels. One […]

They have already started in Germany. Anyone team can use five substitutions over three separate batches in the Bundesliga and I have a feeling it’s here to stay. Teams across many leagues have agreed to go down this route following Covid-19 and the football comeback as it makes sense whilst the delayed season is played […]

Well for those that haven’t fallen in love with the Belarusian Vysshaya Liga we can finally say that some sort of ‘football is back’ thanks to those pesky Germans and Die Bundesliga. I had not felt so much joy and anticipation on a Saturday in weeks… Firstly, the successful application to finally end the 3pm […]

The first major football league to snap out of the covid lockdown is the German Bundesliga which returns to action this weekend (all be it played out in empty stadiums and behind closed doors for safety measures) after initially cutting halt to the campaign following the 25th round of matches which were played all the […]

I’ve got a new team. Why? Because football comes up with the strangest coincidences and before you know it there’s an everlasting affinity that you’ll one day take with you to your grave. That’s why. To clear the record I’ll always be a red, I’ll always be Forest through and through, you can never take […]

Little over a month ago I said in this article that football must be resolved by one way or another but as the authorities meet up to decide what happens next… I am really starting to see only one fair outcome and that is to end it all right now. If you asked me at […]

It’s the first major sporting tournament I really remember… I was a little too young in 86 to properly appreciate football and by the time I got my Panini sticker book I actually thought England were world champions… After all we must have been? Right? So the confusion when flicking through the centre pull out […]

Funny how life works… Only a couple of months ago I was saying how much I’ve fell out of love with the game, VAR ruining it, Liverpool ruining it, money this, money that, I could no longer be bothered to watch the next ‘big match’ through my overpriced Sky subscription.. End it now!!! I don’t […]

Premier League footballers came under scrutiny last week as the Secretary of State Matt Hancock suggested that ‘perhaps’ top flight footballers in England should give up their wages to allow the clubs that they play for to pay ‘other’ lower salaried staff not able to work during the ban on sports caused by the outbreak […]

Under the grand scheme of things football seems meaningless right now. We have been told rightly by the government to do what we can to survive in this life of ours and to protect others against us. To do that we must stay at home, distance ourselves, forget about work, forget about fun, we’ll all […]

So holders Liverpool went crashing out of the European Champions League last night against those anti-football party poopers from the red & white side of Madrid. Purists, Scousers, A-licence waving coaches and soccer pundits from as far as Manchester were despising the horrific time wasting, defensive display in the format of both BT Sports and […]

Firstly nobody can say that ‘not all’ players, clubs and fans don’t care about the FA Cup and those that do take it serious (like Norwich and Tottenham Hotspur did last night) will always be regarded highly by football lovers across the country (like me) for doing so. I wanted to start on Tottenham Hotspur’s […]

I was in a bar in Berlin showing Sky Sport on a Friday afternoon and the barman listening to heavy metal, skin headed dressed in black and covered in tattoos who I just presumed ‘did not like football’ said to me.. “I don’t like English football”.. As I sipped my stein, I found myself nervously […]