I think the bad guy in the ECFC tale is the player. According the to newspaper story, if Duane would have said to the club ‘I want more money’ and the club would have said ‘there isn’t any’ that would be fine, as Duane j[…]

Frogspawn for the new millennium
So anyway, there I was yesterday afternoon, having got home from work and aimlessed around for a bit. I then recalled the intriguing pack of semolina pearls that I’d picked up from my favourite supermarket in C[…]

Talking about agents, as we were, here’s a story (at least here’s the story I can work out by reading behind the lines):
1. Newly-relegated cash-strapped club spots promising young player, playing semi-professionally in an even lower lea[…]

Product placement: via Kultureflash comes news of (yes) an art show (yes) with (guess what?) a DIFFERENCE.
Presumably to promote some new motor which they want to position as ‘edgy’ in some way, BMW are sponsoring a group show on the the[…]

FT Top 100 Films
62: GHOSTBUSTERS
Can you review a film by the quality of its spin-offs? Let’s see. I’m not talking about The Real Ghostbusters the significantly less real cartoon incarnation of the who-ya-gonna-call guys. No, I am going […]

Small pleasures
I suppose I should introduce myself as a contributor rather than assuming everyone knows me from ILX:
I like cooking and eating but am no Heston Blumenthal. I am very easily bored and thus a novelty junkie, but always return to old f[…]

We at Freaky Trigger are trying to raise money to help keep a struggling football club alive. The first steps on our leisurely journey towards £500 have already been taken with the launch of the FT Indie Amnesty.
As you are probably aware, many[…]

Mobb Deep ‘Got It Twisted’ (Jive)
It shouldn’t still happen should it? Taking hits from the 80s hasn’t sounded so crazy for a while, even as that trend has reached it’s fulcrum in the post-millennial fallout. This time t[…]

The new Natasha Bedingfield single (“These Words”) greys along in an unconvincing Dido-with-beats fashion until right at the end she coos “I love you, is that OK?” and the sun bursts through the clouds. It’s winsome but […]

Its a Brown Wedge piece about a television show. So it gets a link here too![…]