by Gareth Roberts | Aug 13, 2013 | Footie
THREE years ago this month, Martin Broughton, Chelsea season ticket holder and then chairman of Liverpool Football Club, was reportedly assessing six bidders’ credentials to take over from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the carpetbaggers who in just three years as...
by Gareth Roberts | Jul 10, 2013 | Footie
NO MORE HEROES ANY MORE HMMM, what to say that hasn’t already been said a thousand times. On the Suarez thing, I entered the pit of perma-fume last night (aka Twitter) to have a mooch at what people were saying. Surprise surprise, many people were angry. Not without...
by Gareth Roberts | Jul 3, 2013 | Footie
DID you read And What? yesterday – it was boss. If not, have a mooch. The thing with Gibbo is, he cracks on – just does it. Me, I’m worried. I’m here thinking you’re thinking, ‘What’s all this about then?’. So...
by Gareth Roberts | Jun 23, 2013 | Footie
SCHADENFREUDE. Just in case it’s a word you’re not familiar with, it’s German. And it means ‘the pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’ or ‘malicious joy’. Well that’s the official version. The Urban Dictionary –...
by Gareth Roberts | May 19, 2013 | Footie
“GO ’ed, Mick.” After every song, a Scouse voice arrowed through the 250-strong crowd at Manchester’s Night & Day Café to the stage where Mick Head stands. It’s a seal of approval delivered by a smiling face. I didn’t look, I didn’t need to – I know that...
by Gareth Roberts | May 16, 2013 | Footie
THE weekend was the fucked up world of modern football in miniature. It was like emptying a bucketful of Lego and watching a load of millionaire players, skint fans, selfish powerbrokers and clueless pundits tumble on to the carpet. What is now the bastard son of...
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 28, 2013 | Footie
SOMETIMES less is more. It took just three words to sum up the collective thought of thousands: “Momo is boss.” Simple but effective, the playing style of Mohammed Sissoko and the banner that bore his nickname. It’s hard to know what truly warrants the moniker of cult...
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 22, 2013 | Footie
WHEN LUIS Suarez sank his not insignificant nashers into Branislav Ivanovic’s arm, the football world predictably exploded with media-fuelled outrage. Some called for him to be sacked, banned or sold, others branded it funny or compared it to the late tackles, the...
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 13, 2013 | Footie
AMONG the avalanche of analysis, opinion and comment that has followed the death of Margaret Thatcher, one word has been omnipresent: divisive. It’s been the phrase of choice for the mass media when describing the nation’s perception of the former prime minister,...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 7, 2013 | Footie
FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than one occasion, is a funny old game. It still is. But now it’s not just the game that is ‘funny’ – it’s the ever increasing circus that continually performs around it, even when no actual football is being played. Once upon a...
