I saw the highlights of the Celtic game that Martin mentioned earlier and thought that both goals were magnificent and demonstrated why football is a wonderful sport.
The first was, as David Pleat said in the commentary, one of the finest examples of[…]

Tim’s post about aesthetic fascists in football seems to be an expansion on the basic comment of ‘just what is it with Spurs fans?’ I’ve thought for some time that they are willingly cursed by the comment by Danny Blanchflower[…]

“A 1979 study by Aegean University, Ankara, Turkey, found disco music to cause homosexuality in mice. The ‘Mickey Mouse Disco’ album, however, was found to raise testosterone levels in Richard Simmons.” – Journal of Dele[…]

I don’t agree with this proposal to dock points; it seems to be based on a false premise. The idea is that teams won’t recklessly overspend and run the risk of insolvency proceedings being needed if they know it will really hurt them. So […]

I’ve read that the original story in early editions of The Sun said (allegedly, natch…) ‘Bonkers Bruno locked up’ but after complaints from mental health support groups changed it to ‘Sad Bruno in mental home’. The[…]

The piece below on the World Cup was written before I’d read this article about the guy who designed it and his aims when doing the piece. I also found that he’d designed the Baseball World Cup Trophy, which looks a little derivative to […]

Are you a real fan? The ultimate question to anyone at a football match or who defines themselves as a football fan. It’s a question that’s never answered in the negative and is usually rhetorical. Real fans never get asked it, and if yo[…]

Sporting Trophies and what they say about the organisations that commissioned them – An occasional series
Number 1 – The FIFA World Cup

Sporting trophies don’t appear to have figured much in the way of criticism; like much of sport[…]

Isn’t it a cliche about tradespersons homes being the worst places to see evidence of their skill? Electricians and plumbers are known for having death-trap exposed wires and dogdy pipes as much as they are for being tapped up by bored housewiv[…]

I’ve just finished The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza. I’d read a review in The Guardian which compared it to The Name of the Rose which is my favourite novel (currently read it 9 times) so I went out and bought it straight away. […]