World Cup mascot firm goes bust
Reports also suggest that consumers are puzzled by the lion’s state of undress – although it wears a number 6 shirt, Goleo does not sport a pair of shorts.[…]

– Defender
– Midfielder
– Striker
How do these words help our understanding of how ‘genre’ works?[…]

A really common trope in sci-fi and comics is where a huge alium/evil computer is befuddled by a random element the heroes have introduced, i.e. the Sentinels are fighting the X-Men, and Wolverine et al. have been nobbled by amazingly planned counter[…]

Jason Mills, Manchester
I recently purchased ye famous D100 and noticed at once (Spot Hidden 75%) that the faces we not equally spaced. To be specific, they are farthest apart nearer the ‘poles’ of the die. This did not strike me as a goo[…]

Okay, here’s what I was saying about Torquay, basically that I don’t believe they will go down as they are perennial escape artists of the bottom division, especially when Barnet are involved.
Last three results:
Macclesfield 0-2 Torquay
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The rest of the world must be looking upon Wales as “that country where England go to play sport”. Not just happy to host the FA Cup yet again, it appears that the Sophie Gardens cricket ground in Cardiff is to not only get test status, b[…]

Football Manager 2006 comes equipped with a very large and memory-consuming data editor. Ostensibly this is so you can tweak stats and update your teams with new transfers, managerial changes etc. in advance of the next upgrade. You can also add enti[…]

Things are getting tight down at the bottom of League Two (nee Division Three* nee Division Four). Having plummeted down there in the last few months, my team Barnet are bobbling just above the two team relegation zone. One win and one loss over East[…]

I just got a belated birthday present from my kindly colleagues – a copy of Trivial Pursuit: THE 90s, in lurid shiny green box. “The decade of your life…” it says – a truly depressing thought, as a lot of the 90s were pe[…]

I imagine there were some TMFD-ers at the Greys – Exeter game last night, to whom I extend my comiserations. However, as I caught the first ten minutes on TV in a pub, I knew that even the hardcore fans probably did not hold out much hope for t[…]