Quarter Season Predictions 16/17: The Premier League
Every year, hundreds of predictions are made about the football season ahead. Promotion and relegation candidates are pored over, and it’s all a bit pointless because you have no idea … Continue reading
Quarter Season Predictions 2016/17: League One
Every year, hundreds of predictions are made about the football season ahead. Promotion and relegation candidates are pored over, and it’s all a bit pointless because you have no idea … Continue reading
Quarter Season Predictions 2016/17: League Two
Every year, hundreds of predictions are made about the football season ahead. Promotion and relegation candidates are pored over, and it’s all a bit pointless because you have no idea … Continue reading
What football can learn from modern films
It is a strange thing, considering how football is so clearly the most successful cultural entertainment and export of the United Kingdom, yet one of the most constant narratives surrounding … Continue reading
The FA Cup is already the star of the season again
It’s not even the end of August, but already we are not short of fantastic football narratives in the English game. The fall of Joe Hart, the rise of Mike … Continue reading
Thoughts on Rio and the empty seats
The Olympics hold a certain fondness for me as a writer. The first sports blogs I ever did, on a pokey WordPress blog of my own design, were about the … Continue reading
Time for Rio to create sporting memories – the real legacy of London
Is it just me, or have the Olympics really rather snuck up on us? Maybe it’s because it seemed like there was so much sport between us and it over … Continue reading
Ranked: England’s 21st century tournament performances
England at major tournaments in the 21st century. Dear dear, it has been nothing but a never-ending tale of woe. One thing about it has been that the woe has … Continue reading
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