Outfield Goalies
You don’t see them much these days, what with three subs being drawn from five named replacements. I have to confess it’s my favourite thing in football.
I like seeing an amateur goalie at the top level, the mixture of t[…]

FDNL
Oh Cristiano, how we mocked thee. Let me count the ways. How your endless cheeky flicks and attractive stepovers wowed the world and disgusted the TMFD staff. How we smugly nodded along with Alan and Gordon every time the words ‘end produc[…]

Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land!!
England football teams have won twice in two days!! On Wednesday night the National Game XI (made up of players under 23 from non-league football) put three past Holland and last night the Women’s team p[…]

I don’t like Wednesdays…
…for the FA Cup final. Daft proposal ahoy from the FA. Basically, they have to give players a month off before the 2006 World Cup. The only way they can fit all this football in is, they say, is by having th[…]

Shock defeat for fun
(Caution: tenuous sporting link.)[…]

Football goes Pop
At 2.58 on the public address system at AFC Wimbledon vs Croydon on Saturday we heard Schanppi das Kleine Krokodil which I think is a UK first. Brilliant.
PS – new striker Andrew Martin has longish hair, so has been given the […]

Football Poetry

Not sure if this has been linked before. Some of them are absolute cock, but not all.[…]

Man U ultras’ anti-Glazer tactics – notably the revelation that “the group also claim to have a severed horses head” which they are waiting to unleash. For some reason the idea of this waiting neatly in someone’s freezer[…]

I Heart Germany
In Club Bastard in Berlin this weekend, I spotted and advert for the International Football Film Festival.

Brilliant – a festival packed with football films, and I’ll miss it. All those debates about whether football can […]

When Michael Moore was making Fahrenheit 9/11, and whinging on about the Patriot Act, he managed to miss one of the most insidious aspects of this rushed piece of law. The fact that The Patriot Act is so protectionist and anti-competition that it act[…]