But OK for dawgs?[…]

Will the last person to leave the FA please turn off the lights
Some readers who have heard me on the subject of the FA and the Premier League will be aware of my general view that The FA is staffed by good people let down by the muppets who actually[…]

Who designed a supply chain like this
Loyd Grossman’s Tomato and Chilli sauce is basically the arabbiata in their range of sauces, but it knocks every other version – Sacla, Sainsbury’s Safeway, Morrisons, Seeds of Change – in[…]

Num Num Tom Yum
About 18 months ago, I wrote about how my favourite noodles had seemingly disappeared. Blue Dragon Tom Yum RIP. I eventually wrote to Blue Dragon, who advised me to go to their SE London stockest, a shop which turned out to be really[…]

Uses of Political Correctness Gone Mad
Dominic Fifield, in The Guardian, writing about the aftermath of the Carling Cup Final:
Jose Mourinho had offered his opposing captain a warm handshake in the tunnel before kick-off, though Gerrard was less eage[…]

Outfield Goalies
You don’t see them much these days, what with three subs being drawn from five named replacements. I have to confess it’s my favourite thing in football.
I like seeing an amateur goalie at the top level, the mixture of t[…]

I don’t like Wednesdays…
…for the FA Cup final. Daft proposal ahoy from the FA. Basically, they have to give players a month off before the 2006 World Cup. The only way they can fit all this football in is, they say, is by having th[…]

Football goes Pop
At 2.58 on the public address system at AFC Wimbledon vs Croydon on Saturday we heard Schanppi das Kleine Krokodil which I think is a UK first. Brilliant.
PS – new striker Andrew Martin has longish hair, so has been given the […]

Hardcore, but they don’t know the score
Midnight. Berlin. You want to go a club. You see the sign:

It looks the part. Reassuringly brusque bouncer. Cool Berliners moving to German art-rock sounds.
And then you here a cheer go up.
A song start[…]

I Heart Germany
In Club Bastard in Berlin this weekend, I spotted and advert for the International Football Film Festival.

Brilliant – a festival packed with football films, and I’ll miss it. All those debates about whether football can […]