What ever happened to doubt?: VAR in a polarised world

I am right, you are wrong. It's either 0 or 1. Forget the infinity in betweenI don't care about whatever goal we're talking about today on twitter. I don't care if the eye in the sky got it right or wrong. I don't care 'how it's applied' or whether 'going to the screen more...

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Read yourself back to sanity...

It's Saturday and we've no game. I've cleaned the kitchen, done the hoovering and the lad is occupied. There is literally no point in my existence. It's grey and the wind is doing a good impression of a thin faced knife carrying youth dosed up on amphetamines and with a grudge...

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Five on a farmers field: Wigan Athletic vs the Mighty

It's a pie. It's been smashed. Do you see? I wrote a preview to the game, so I'll keep it short. Basically it said - we've got a decent side still, so lets attack, attack, attack. Then we got the team sheet and Garbutt was out and it all suddenly looks imbalanced. Bez or...

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Match preview: Wigan Athletic vs The Mighty

CultureI dunno if other people did this, but one of the highlights of my youth was when me and my mates used to put together scratch teams to play unofficial but highly anticipated games of football against another group of lads. Where I grew up there were two field. The park,...

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Always next year... Brighton and Hove Albion vs the Mighty

Here we go. Fourth round day. Another stop on the road to Wembley. Cos we are going to Wembley and we're winning the thing. Fucking hell, if a tinpot team like Wigan Athletic can win an FA Cup, we can win it twice. Don't stop believing. Don't wake up. It's a tangerine dream. Can...

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We need to talk about Sullay: Northampton Town match preview

A picture of some trickery and magic. Which players would you say this applies to in our squad? I don't normally do a match preview on the basis I've got nothing to say and others do them way better than I ever could. I am bored though and perhaps if I do a preview, the...

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