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I knew I was the target market for this book by page 10, “have you ever wondered why TSV Munich have 1860 as a suffix when the German game didn’t get off the ground until the 1890s?” It’s precisely the sort of thing I have pon[…]

“I’ll get some stick over this” smugs Frank Kane over his provocative “harsh realities” in yesterday’s Observer. Will any suckers bite? Chomp, chomp.
Passing over the half-truths (he should read the chapter in here[…]

I said on an ILX thread yesterday that the main problem I have with Sudoku is the unacceptable difficulty of doing a filthy version. Andrew Farrell suggested the elegant solution of only using the numbers “6” and “9” but this […]

Mel C will get a Liver Bird tat on her arse. Finally Steven Gerrard will pull his finger out with an incentive like that.
Oh, and does anyone want to tell UEFA that the Champions League, isn’t, like, a league at all. It’s a cup competitio[…]

And so farewell then, Celebrity Wrestling. We barely knew (watched) you. Except a bizarre one minute sgment where Jenni Powell was tethered to Fatima Whitbread in a turquoise gimp mask and made to run around the ring hitting some balls.[…]

At this time of the year, my interest in what’s now termed the Championship increases a lot – the playoff final, in particular, is one of my favourite fixtures of the year. But there’s a depressing aspect too. You see the one match […]

We had an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon yesterday. It was everything you might expect an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon to be, including the dread words on the agenda “interactive game”. When you are a small c[…]

Stadiums shared by two football teams have been seen as problematic for many reasons; one of the major objections is the difficulty in making a joint stadium feel like home for two groups of people. In order that the ground doesn’t offend half […]

It’s surely an indictment of something that the two pop-culture events I’ve been most excited about this year have been a comics series and Doctor Who. Certainly I’ve been spending more time than is perhaps healthy exploring my chil[…]