you mayaswell not bother this season, the best headline award has already been won…
(i suppose this would also apply to architectual sub-editors…)[…]

And so we come to one of my favourite times of year as a football neutral: the Season Previews. Full of things I’m a sucker for: paper-thin analysis, inexplicable predictions, wild optimism, bogus claims. Of course reading one in a sitting is a[…]

Its that time again when the best sport is on the box. No, not the television, I mean your computah box. Because its Wimbledon (which I usually hate) and that can mean but one thing.
The Return Of The ILx Wimbledon Thread
Join you host Mike Jones and[…]

well kind of.
the ladyfoot final was great, the plucky norwegians seem to have been taken to the lancashire public’s hearts (and i’m sure the fact that they were playing the germans had nothing to do with it) and were pretty unlucky (thei[…]

It would appear that Lambrini Girls do not know much about sport. However they
a) like drinking
b) like men
so are more than willing to learn. As long as that learning isn’t too complicated. For example, from the Lambrini Girls Guide to Footbal[…]

And there could only be one winner. Gurls. From Staurday’s Guardian, Dave reveals that woman are better at football than him.[…]

“The most expensive game of football in the world” shouted the hyperactive stadium announcer before kick off. Relax the players it did not. West Ham had to win this to sustain a recognisable team. The Guardian went one step further, &#822[…]

(viz SYNCHRO obv)
yesterday wz the GOLDEN GOGGLES AWARD for swimmin pools good and bad (and shut down)
it wz presented in uber-classic synchro/performance art format: viz happened in an EMPTY SWIMMIN POOL DO YOU SEE! (step forward marshall street po[…]

The tabloids often stumble across a decent pun (I remember the Freund or Foe headline for a Spurs vs West Ham game some seasons back that sadly can never happen again). But for each of these there is a counterpoint in Chop Souey and Kieran Dire. Over[…]

I’ve been giving a little thought to what I like and dislike about football match reports.
The best ones translate like an impressionist painting; expressing the feel of a game without becoming bogged down in the minutiae of corner counts and p[…]