My Life Of Crime (Pretend): part of my stag weekend involved a board game called BREAK THE SAFE! Initially sceptical, I ended up having a grand time playing it. My doubts arose from the fact that it is a co-operative boardgame, not a competitive one.[…]

Some of my best friends are Scottish, and the recent round of internationals pointed up an interesting dilemma for the English football fan who likes laughing at Scottish football. Do I:
(a) patronisingly support the plucky Scots in their fight agai[…]

I was never a mahousive football supporter as a youth. Sure, I supported Manchester City, but that was only out of a complete and utter hatred for Manchester United, and being a fan of G. Kinkladze and the lovely blue shirts. Sure I supported Preston[…]

If I get one thing out of the Rugby World Cup (and quite possibly I will only get one thing since my love of watching Rugby Union knows some bounds) it was watching Scotland struggle against Japan on Sunday. Not due to any dislike of the Scot’s[…]

All this talk of chanting has made me think of the best songs I’ve heard on the terraces and what makes a good terrace song. My particular favourite is that sung by Sheffield United to the tune of Annie’s Song by John Denver:
You fill u[…]

Just a short note on Tim’s piece below. Whenever I have heard a crowd singing “Are you England In Disguise” I have always taken it to mean that the team seem to survive on a sliver of desperation, a bit of luck and rather boring foo[…]

If you didn’t know already, and you could be forgiven if you didn’t, Mari Cha IV is now the fastest monohull in the world, having crossed the Atlantic in 6 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes and 39 seconds, beating the existing transatlantic reco[…]

In a game between Manchester United and England, at the moment, Man U would probably win, although it seems according to the Observer that the interesting action would be in the fighting beforehand.
I know that if I had heard MU fans singing &#8220[…]

I think I can trace my love of opening ceremonies back to the ’84 olympics, and, in particular, the bloke on the jet pack, as well as my general love of international sporting competition of any sort. I try to rationalise with phrases such as […]

AMERICAN SPORTS ALERT!
So, over here, there’s this sport that resembles cricket, in a way, except the ball-hitting implements aren’t as flat, and the hurlers throw differently, and, sometimes, the people playing this sport tend to treat i[…]