by Karl Coppack | Apr 24, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack YOU can’t not enjoy a last minute equaliser. They’re glorious things and are great in either category – the deserved and the ‘how did we get away with that.’ Sunday’s helping was nice (thanks for doing your bit, Nando) and it arrived to give us a brief...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 19, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack NOT again. Not another cheap overly romanticised article about how great football was when people drank mild and every away game came with a free sprint to the station to avoid bovver boots and Stanley knives. Well, nostalgia may well be the last...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 20, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘There can be no true beauty without decay.’ FIRSTLY, an apology. If you haven’t seen ‘Withnail and I’ then none of the following will make much sense. Maybe you’ve seen the odd scene but never managed to sit through the entire thing. Well,...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 10, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack IN any piece concerning prejudice it would be unfair and inequitous not to announce my own. No one can be completely objective in most walks of life unless they don’t really care in the first place (Bobby Fischer v whoever it was always left me...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 21, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack IT’S the day of the home leg against Zenit, six months into the season and I’m still not sure. I’ve sat through 5-0 wins, I’ve seen us be an aberration of a back pass and a walkabout goalkeeper away from beating the League...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 31, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack I love football. I like betting too. I’m no good at it and, to be honest I’m a bit alarmed that my local bookie knows my name but I don’t take it too seriously. I don’t lose too much and I win even less. Betting is a supplement to a mundane Saturday...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 14, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack LAST week saw David Bowie’s 66th birthday and his first single in a decade. Twitter had musicians and writers hailing his return and it even merited a mention on the Nine O’clock News. Despite years of near silence, David Bowie is still a big...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 9, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack THE Christmas programme marks a vital period in any season. Those three or four games can transform a mid table team to one pushing for the European places or shove another towards the relegation places. It takes just days for a pretty good start to...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 22, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...
by Karl Coppack | Oct 17, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack FOR twenty three years the events of 15th April 1989 have, until recently, been wrapped in vicious fiction and group factions. The cover-up, the smearing of the supporters who barely made it off those terraces and those who didn’t and the...
