IN a quest to find football fans more miserable than us, Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons pack their bags and head off to the North East, where they really know how to do misery and despair. Well not quite. They just went to The Tower and rang Stephen Goldsmith of Wise...
THERE was a lot of hysteria in the wake of the Arsenal defeat from sections of the media – which you might expect – and also from a lot of Liverpool fans, which perhaps you might not. Brendan Rodgers found himself under some of the most intense scrutiny since...
SORRY about the delay. Am in Barmouth. Barmouth has a lot going for it. Fantastic, dramatic coastline. Arcades. Boozers. But it doesn’t have much signal. On days like today, this is both a good and bad thing. Good because I am excluded from the internet. Bad...
Football, we’re often told, has a morality problem. Players dive (if foreign) and go to ground too easily (if English). Players (foreign) wave imaginary cards. Fans sing offensive songs, abuse referees, name rape victims on social networks. God, everybody’s on them...
