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Features
/ 12 years agoWINDOW PAIN
ASHLEY GREB laments the circus surrounding the January transfer window OF all the months in the year, I really bloody hate...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWINDOW GAIN
This year marked the tenth anniversary of the January transfer window – an innovation that takes a bit too much stick...
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Features
/ 12 years agoRUMOURS OF FOOTBALL’S DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
A great year for British sport led to a lot of finger wagging at football, but CHRIS EVANS says its halo...
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Features
/ 12 years agoPaying the price for tribalism
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS Supporters’ tunnel vision is just the ticket for greedy clubs FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than one...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWHAT’S THE REALITY OF FANTASY?
SIMON CRAFT worries that a game that was once a bit of fun is now becoming far too serious RUSHING home...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE DAY ONE OF WORLD’S GREATEST TEAMS DIED
CHRIS DUNLAVY remembers the tragic events of May 4, 1949 when Torino’s team plane crashed IT was just before 5pm on...
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Features
/ 12 years agoCONFESSIONS OF A SOCCER SPURLOCK…
CHRIS SHAW binges on televised football for a weekend and rediscovers a love of neutral viewing IDOUBT there is anyone reading...
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Features
/ 12 years agoHESKEY REVISITED
JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you heard...
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Features
/ 12 years agoSTRIPPED BACK
Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent times...
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Book Reviews
/ 12 years agoIT’S BIN A LONG TIME
JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. ONLY...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTACKLING BIRTHDAYS
Rubbish football cards... they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any more...
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Features
/ 12 years agoPOPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY
‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that I...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS
CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom at...
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Features
/ 12 years agoPRESS-ING MATTERS
DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their subjects...
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Features
/ 12 years agoPLAYING KETCHUP
LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric recruitment...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES
They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to explain......
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Features
/ 12 years agoBEWARE SNOW, FLOOODS AND TYRANTS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the perils of the weather – and other less obvious influences on whether a match gets played...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE
ALISTAIR MCLAUCHLAN, a Scot living in Ecuador, wonders who’s got it best when it comes to watching football Atahualpa Stadium EVERY...
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Features
/ 12 years agoBRITS, BRIAN, BIG BALLS AND BENFICA
STEVEN GREEN remembers when Portugal chopped Souey Graeme Souness at Benfica THERE are certain periods in every club’s history that are...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE CUP DOESN’T MEAN F.A. TO ME’
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS says you can’t beat The FA Cup third-round draw I’d just watched a decent second-round tie on...
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Features
/ 12 years agoAN ADVENTURE AT THE WRONG END OF THE PYRAMID
CHRIS EVANS tells the tale of an African player still dreaming of the big time while keeping goal in the Central...
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Features
/ 12 years agoBADGES OF DISHONOUR
WALSH’S WORLD - KRISTIAN WALSH REGRETS A FOOTBALL REVOLUTION THE ever-growing movement against modern football is a commendable one. Supporters are being...
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Features
/ 12 years agoI FOUND MY FOOTBALL SOUL IN THE ORIENT
Adam Michie committed the cardinal sin and swapped allegiances. How did it workl out? In 2010, I committed the cardinal sin...
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Features
/ 12 years agoJUST GET ON WITH IT!
Tunnel cameras, handshakes and theme tunes -PAUL CANTWELL has had enough of the pre-match palaver and is thankful for Sky Plus......
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Features
/ 12 years agoNOT SINGING ANY MORE?
NEIL SCOTT wonders why so few have cracked it when it comes to fusing togger and tunes into a successful partnership...
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Features
/ 12 years agoGET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66
No, not that one. MICHAEL MOWBRAY had a jumping out of the bath experience that led to him attending more than...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFOOTBALL’S ANSWER TO MONEYBALL
DECLAN OLLEY looks at Porto’s remarkable knack of winning trophies and beating the transfer system MICHAEL LEWIS’ Moneyball has been an...
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Features
/ 12 years agoCARRICK, GHOST OF SEASON,S PAST
STEPHEN TUDOR says Michael Carrick personifies what has gone wrong with English football ANDREA PIRLO bewitched the watching continent with a...
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Features
/ 12 years agoJONAS IS ALL WRITE BY ME
Football writing ain't what it used to be – and the attitude towards an unsung hero sums it all up for...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWHY MIND GAMES ARE A NO BRAINER
PAUL CANTWELL disputes the media-fuelled concept that Alex Ferguson has mysterious mental powers Sir Alex Ferguson ‘And now for my next...
