Ananova have good story, but greedily they want better story
Local news teams will be waiting with baited breath to see if this 16 goal haul is actually a record: my hunch is no. My hunch is also that with a little bit of a backhander to an opposing[…]

So Mourinho gets a two match ban then. Let us set aside the issue of whether or not Mourinho has brought the game into disrepute: frankly only football would equate “making something more entertaining” with “disrepute”. What […]

A political rant that only barely belongs here…
I had hugely mixed feelings about something I saw outside the Spurs ground earlier today, when I walked past while Tottenham were beating Man City. It was one of those weird narrow vans with sides[…]

February:
Teams: Boavista vs Leira
League: Portuguese Superliga
Entry Price: EUR 20
Programme: Dunno, guv
Stadium Architecture: Sturdy EURO 2004 Refurb
My new year’s resolution is to visit a new football ground every month. New means new to me […]

Will the last person to leave the FA please turn off the lights
Some readers who have heard me on the subject of the FA and the Premier League will be aware of my general view that The FA is staffed by good people let down by the muppets who actually[…]

Uses of Political Correctness Gone Mad
Dominic Fifield, in The Guardian, writing about the aftermath of the Carling Cup Final:
Jose Mourinho had offered his opposing captain a warm handshake in the tunnel before kick-off, though Gerrard was less eage[…]

The competition is obviously a fierce one (not just handbags at ten paces), but my least favourite came up again tonight, watching Norwich vs Manchester City. Dean Ashton scored a really delightful goal, a high ball coming in while he was moving acro[…]

Consolation Prize: Liverpool lose Carling, win Guinness by setting world record for “loudest stadium roar”. Atrociously posed picture raises ‘fix’ suspicions.[…]

None more twee.[…]

A great piece on football and community by David Conn in today’s graun (hidden away in the Society bit). Good quotage (near the bottom) too in an accompanying piece. Interestingly the pictures used to illustrate the article (in the actual pap[…]