Whitechapel has featured in a surprisingly high number of my posts to the Publog over the years. And here I am again to offer evidence as a rapid rebuttal to Pete’s mental idea that tellies in pubs should be for sport only. Get yourself down to[…]

Chelsea Headhunt Kenyon: so far so boring. Global brand, best in the business, carry on, nothing to see here. Except I think, though I’m not sure, that Chelsea’s outgoing Chief Executive, Trevor Birch, was the fellow I heard the other nig[…]

There are no links up over on the right hand side of this page. This isn’t some grand we-stand-alone gesture. Apart from anything else, we don’t stand alone. I can’t offer any excuses except to say that I haven’t done anything[…]

Watching the England game in the pub on Saturday, we saw Wayne Rooney score that goal, and a predictable cheer went up. When the replays were going on I looked around me and was surprised at what I saw.
In response to one of the less explicable piec[…]

You’re not from round ‘ere: I’m delighted to see FT’s sports coverage kick off with a fine article by Dave Boyle. He’s right to be sick of the jeering insistence on authenticity which runs through so much football cultur[…]

I have been involved with an organisation called Exeter City Supporters’ Trust. It’s a group of fans of our little club set up a few years ago with the aim of representing us to the board of the club, amongst other things, and aspiring to[…]