The Squad - expert review pt 2: Defenders

In the previous blog in this series, I cast an expert eye over the goalies. Today it's the turn of the defenders, an area I have equal or perhaps greater qualification to discuss having given up goalkeeping in my early teens, whereafter I favoured playing centre...

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Stop saying 'bail out' - Damien Collins MP and 'saving football'

A jungle is an ecosystem. A lion doesn't eat everything for the sake of it. It would grow fat and get eaten if it did. Whether or not it had a crown, which frankly is a mental thing to put on a lion. This blog references 'When Sky Invented Football' podcast. It's grand...

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The squad: Expert review - Part 1 GK's

'I've got 6 keepers FFS!' 'Well, I'm spending 200% of our turnover on player wages alone YOLO'  I've been writing a lot about the end of football as we know it and it's starting to make me miserable......so what better thing to do than review a load of players ignoring...

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Can we afford football?

This article is about Blackpool, but only because that's what I know. You can alter the maths slightly, change the names and it's about any league one (or league 2) club. What it isn't about is whether Liverpool's summer transfer plans have been dealt a blow or which...

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Void it now

Footballers doing bad things. Getting paid loads of money to roll around on the floor, spit, and grunt monosyllabic responses to earnest young men and women asking them earnest questions in an enthusiastic manner. They're a terrible influence on the youth of...

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Football - your first and purest love

'Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being' (Camus) Remember things? Remember undergound public toilets with steep steps down to their shadowy echoing depths? Remember rampant homophobia and it being ok to sing...

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Season Review - A fantastic damp squib!

So, it seems, the season is about to end after all the speculation and we won't get to say goodbye. Given the spectacular levels of what young people call #awkward at last season's final game lap of honour, it's probably not a bad thing. You can recreate the experience...

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Depressingly predictable

Bashing the Premier League is, like rap music, skateboarding and doing the twist, very trendy. I'm too white to rap, crap at skateboarding and twisting again like we did last summer is out, given that last summer took place in an entirely different social context.  ...

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