Difficult times for English football. As television revenues decline, players’ wages don’t. These same players, pampered and arrogant, inhabit the gossip pages of the newspapers more often than the sports pages. The public, irked by the p[…]

After a terrific performance from Northern Ireland and a lousy one from England, there were difficult decisions for national newspapers today on how jingoistic and England orientated they should be.
Daily Mail: Sack the Swede
Daily Star: Sack the Sw[…]

Is that how they used to advertise Mouse Trap. It rings a bell with me anyway. Anyway, a trip to the nephews for his birthday rustled this game up as a present. And it has changed from my youth. Not only have the graphics been slightly more cartoonif[…]

A Romanian Football Club Chairman has put his club on Ebay to get rid of it. Unfortunately for the sale of said club the idiot chairman seems to know nothing about rule one of salesmanship. “Thou shalt not go on Teh Interweb and tell everyone h[…]

The football match in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, slightly annoted by Wes Clark, but not in a useful way. Unfortuantely I cannot really pick out much in the way of fair play, or indeed rules in this game.
What is potentailly more important is the […]

I had one of those meetings today where we do ‘creative work’, this means our meeting environment was filled with TOYS including my new favourite toy EVER viz. GEOMAG. GEOMAG is a simple construction toy consisting of a load of small meta[…]

Sitting watching the Ashes yesterday I turned to Tim and admitted it. “You know those people the newspapers talk about who are suddenly interested in cricket? I’m one of them.” “Me too” he replied. Out of respect for the[…]

I wish football journalists and commentators would stop talking about strikers “dropping down the pecking order” at their clubs. This dreadfully scratchy expression appears at least 46 times a day on the BBC’s football website.
I b[…]

Couple of notable things about last nights Everton / Villareal game. First, ITV2 screening this big tie seemed to have a bit of an aspect ration problem. At 4:3 the screen was taller than it was wide. At Widescreen it did not fill the screen. Therefo[…]

One of the happy upshots of the Bosman Ruling which we have been living with for almost ten years, is the effect it has on players prices near the end of their contract. Take Clinton Morrison (Birmingham wish someone would) the Republic of Ireland st[…]