Tyrannosaurs Make Funky Dancers: cheap games alert for UK readers – Woolworth’s is selling off Chad Valley toys on a Buy One Get One Half Price offer. Since Chad Valley are already the Kwik-Save of the kids’ games world this represe[…]

So the first weekend of the 2003 Rugby World Cup has passed by without a hitch, or has it?
Although it’s certainly true that all the home nations managed to avoid major slip-ups it is hardly encouraging that the Scots struggled to beat Japan, a[…]

Swells clearly wrote this in his sleep, bless him, but ‘Get off your knees, you disgusting old scabs’ did make me laugh.
I was right behind the FA (for the first time ever, I think) on their handling of the Ferdinand business but when I […]

People who have known me for some time will remember there was a period about three years ago when I was actively pursuing the purchase of a greyhound. I love dog racing, and unlike the gee-gees I am actually quite good at judging the nick of a greyh[…]

The Observer Sport Monthly ran what I thought was a rather mean-spirited article about Glenn Hoddle which rehearsed all the familiar Hoddle issues we’ve read so much about: distant, arrogant, obsessed with his own legend. And so on.
I’m n[…]

Thanks to my job I’ve had some heavy-duty exposure to the Manchester United marketing machine recently – a John Simm-voiced video profile of their youth academy focusing specifically on skills development.
It was rich with the kind of d[…]

I saw the highlights of the Celtic game that Martin mentioned earlier and thought that both goals were magnificent and demonstrated why football is a wonderful sport.
The first was, as David Pleat said in the commentary, one of the finest examples of[…]

Tim’s post about aesthetic fascists in football seems to be an expansion on the basic comment of ‘just what is it with Spurs fans?’ I’ve thought for some time that they are willingly cursed by the comment by Danny Blanchflower[…]

A few months ago, a prominent TMFDer was on Radio 5’s breakfast show, interviewed by none other than Victoria Derbyshire. I’m not a fan of Victoria Derbyshire, she seems to embark on brief breakfast radio interview slots with a clear idea[…]

Much as I approve of Tim’s outrage at people insisting there is only one way to play the game, and ignoring his own (no doubt ironic) final normative statement, I have to say that I disagree with a lot of what he says.
Tim would be one of very […]