It’s finally happened; a quick look at this weekend’s league tables for the Scottish and English Premier Leagues shows that the gap between those in with a shout of glory and the also rans is bigger in England; in Scotland, the third plac[…]

Regarding chants, myself and mrs carsmile were commenting last night on the universality of the tunes used. The Inter fans were singing something to the tune of “glory, glory man united”/”who the fucking hell are slipknot” an[…]

What a Waste of Money!
According to the Guardian, Barclaycard are spending ten grand on funding some poor soul to go round to football grounds and help us with making up songs. Thanks Barclaycard! If you made a list of all the different bits of foot[…]

NATION UNITES IN FAINTLY DUTIFUL REJOICING!: Good work our boys etc. etc., and it was all very exciting, but I have to say I can’t detect as yet the mass uplifting of the national spirit that some might have expected. Isabel and I went shopping[…]

I’m not the world’s biggest rugby fan and indeed I’m still not sure that I’ll be watching the World Cup final on Saturday (it clashes with Soccer AM), but this story is pretty interesting on Jonnie Wilkinson’s kicking st[…]

A Macquarie Research paper for the Aussie business community on why they think the Wallabies will win on Saturday. Let’s hope that their “scientific” approach is the wrong one.[…]

We met a couple of friendly students in Warsaw who guided us through the station. I talked about football with one of them – a personal milestone for me, and my diligent readings of FourFourTwo‘s pre-chewed football history articles stood[…]

Pleasing moment bought on by needless watching of Brazil / Peru in the pub last night. Yes, we wanted Brazil to get spanked because everyone wants the underdog to win. But we found ourselves more and more drawn to the good players of Peru. Was it the[…]

Things that do make me proud of one of my adopted teams: Manchester City’s Bell End. Well done Colin and big smelly BOOs to John Wardle, who HATES FUN.[…]

Things that do not make me proud of my home town. Well apart from it being the burning people alive capital of Britain, there is this lovely story of the convicted football hooligan playing for the local football team. This has caused a slight proble[…]