Highland heaven: Deveronvale vs Inverurie Locos

Football is football is football. Except maybe it isn't. The financially focused and often fractious professional game in England bears little resemblance to what I'm experiencing now. Players are chatting to fans, half time draw tickets are dispensed from a trestle table...

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Season Preview: Throw off the shackles!

Bring back the body warmer or not? That is the key tactical question facing Neil Critchley this seasonThis is an odd preview to write because I'm really not in Blackpool Football Club mode at the moment - That's down to a combination of things I guess. Firstly, the EUROs weren't...

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Listen to yesterday: 3 football history podcasts

Podcasts are one of the world's best and worst inventions. The app stores might be flooded with vapid celebrity content, but searching a little bit deeper can reveal some amazing things. Football is extremely well represented and there are some really good contemporary podcasts...

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A blueprint for English victory.

Just like that, another chapter in England's catalogue of failure is written. Once again, a nation breathes in, ready to let out a primal scream of joy and instead all that is emitted is a collective long sigh. Rather than gazing on a trophy lift, there is just a thousand yard...

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Final Countdown...

One of England's many greats. Matthews, Finney, Charlton, Moore, Hurst, Sinton etc...Keen readers of this blog will have noted I started off writing about the EUROs and then just stopped.Frankly, I couldn't be arsed. I say 'couldn't be arsed' in attempt to pass it off cooly,...

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