Steve is OTM about player’s ignorance of the laws of the game; Lou Macari was interviewed outside Old Trafford last night in connection with Rio Ferdinand being charged and said that some blame must be attached to the FA’s drug testers f[…]

Vainly searching for some coverage of the FA Cup replays last night I stumbled onto Sky Sports News who were mainly covering the Carling Cup. Down at Highbury it was all getting a bit tense, after what was effectively Arsenal’s youth team had […]

In case you aren’t watching the Rugby World Cup (and fair enough) I thought you would nonetheless like to know that Ireland’s bald and not-cute hooker (equivalent for US readers: there isn’t one) Keith Wood glories in the nickname T[…]

Even if you’re a sports fan you may never have heard of Mildred Didrikson-Zaharias. Here is why she was the greatest athlete of all time.
She was born in Texas in 1914. At 16 she led her basketball team to three national titles. In the 1932 nat[…]

“The scarf awarded for playing is known as a pussy.”: I did not play rugby at school. I played this. (NB I cannot remember 60% of these rules – at some later date I will write up my memories of what it was actually like.)[…]

Whoosh! Erase The World lays into The Rugger with a righteous ire. It’s hard to disagree. (Link via the tremendous It’s All In Your Mind). I saw a bunch of the highlights last night and they seem to consist primarily of a prurient “[…]

Before I get down to the rez, Let me just second Mark’s post below. Spy Ring looked brilliant, played like Ludo on Tamazepan. It is quite possible that I had a later version of the game which used the almost impenetrable code of reading mirror […]

For older readers, BREAK THE SAFE factors in one further strength, which is that it seems to be a descendent of Waddington’s long-vanished SPY RING: inherited elements include safecracking, “secrets” as tablets you have to seek out […]

My Life Of Crime (Pretend): part of my stag weekend involved a board game called BREAK THE SAFE! Initially sceptical, I ended up having a grand time playing it. My doubts arose from the fact that it is a co-operative boardgame, not a competitive one.[…]

Some of my best friends are Scottish, and the recent round of internationals pointed up an interesting dilemma for the English football fan who likes laughing at Scottish football. Do I:
(a) patronisingly support the plucky Scots in their fight agai[…]