The most repeated joke doing the rounds yesterday at the Grange ground in Edinburgh was that the only thing stopping Scotland from being a Test side was the impossibility of ever having 5 days without rain. Not that that has ever stopped England mind[…]

we demand a PICTURE
UPDATE: ok now the story has a picture (which haha totally undermines the CLEVER YET KOMIKAL lead graf) so the story must be savoured for other reasons viz the quote from Daily Post art critic Philip “i don’t get it&#8[…]

As extolled by this ILx thread. In many ways it is symptomatic of a cricket thread that the first five posts are on a complete tangent about a doll. At time of writing it had made an impressive ninety, lets hope the thread makes its century. Worth it[…]

Okay, the Australians forced a hard earned draw with England in the Third Test. They will be pleased with that, and not pleased that they ever got into the situation. There has been much less noise from the Australian camp, even though they stymied E[…]

Football seasons, eh? They seem to start earlier and earlier every year.
This year, the combination of (a) the season starting at the height of August, and (b) my team playing at a level at which an uncovered away end is by no means a rarity, has dri[…]

You can tell Australia are toying with us. Cricket-wise that is. I am not saying they let us win the second test, that is not in their nature. Nevertheless the nature of that win has not got them running scared. How can I tell that the wind has not b[…]

Garrincha – Biography by Ruy Castro
Alex Bellos’ book on Brazilian football (Futebol) contains a chapter on Garrincha (The Angel with Bent Legs). The source of the chapter lies in Ruy Castro’s biography, just issued in paperback and[…]

Grassroots football nut Dave Boyle wrote an introblog on the Allianz Arena earlier this year. I visited last week to check he wasn’t making it up. The hosts were TSV Munich 1860 and they were playing Premiership favourites West Ham to mark the […]

Exeter City begin their 2005/6 campaign away at Gravesend and Northfleet, who play in Northfleet. It’s a not-especially promising kind of place on the Kentish bank of the Thames, but an easy first day trip for City fans based in London. How sup[…]

They ain’t called Rockstar Games for nothing baby. How to perfectly market your second wave of sales. Except in Australia. What I find amusing is that these sex scenes will clearly have been programmed in extra time, making them either unpaid o[…]