Dilemmas of Football Ownership: Property is Theft
[O]nce upon a time, earlier on in my real career in book publishing, I was present at some tense negotiations in which a nicotine moustachioed representative of the National Union of Journalists lost...
View ArticleA Short History of Football and Music: 2000 to the Present
[W]ith football cock of the walk as the new millennium dawned, the extended love-in with music and other elements of popular culture continued to drag on through the early years of the decade. Soccer...
View ArticleNeil Warnock Week: Book Review: Made in Sheffield
Made in Sheffield: My Story by Neil Warnock with Oliver Holt Published by Hodder and Stoughton 2008, £8.99 “Anyone who writes an autobiography”, opines former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine in the...
View ArticleNeil Warnock Week: The Argyle Years
Despite managing the Pilgrims for less than 100 games back in the nineties, Neil Warnock remains a firm favourite amongst Plymouth Argyle supporters today – so much so that his name continues to...
View ArticleSemi Final Memories: Plymouth Argyle 1984
Second up in this week’s series looking back to non-top flight appearances in the FA Cup semi finals, we look back 31 years to a time when George Reilly broke Devonian hearts. Here’s Roger Willis: … In...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16
Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it...
View ArticleFootball Cities: Exeter
When football writers talk about provincial footballing sides and cities a few familiar names crop up, such as Nottingham and Derby. These definitely fall into the category of “not London” and smaller...
View ArticleAnother set of half-baked proposals from the Football League
Two summers ago, I stood on the stoop of a pub in Oxford and was interviewed over the telephone by the We Are Going Up podcast about the proposals to introduce reserve teams of Premier League clubs...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2016-17
Accrington Stanley Regardless of whether Accrington went up last year, their team was destined to be broken up, such was their quality. With Matty Crooks and Josh Windass having already signed...
View ArticleAre Clouds Beginning to Gather Once Again at Home Park?
Having initially penned an epic two-parter in January 2012 about the travails of Plymouth Argyle as part of a short series of pieces on clubs in turmoil (which, for the record, featured alongside...
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