Bale: I’m staying put

Despite signing an improved four-and-a-half-year deal in March, this has done little to quash speculation on the winger’s future, clubs such as Chelsea, Inter Milan and Barcelona have all been heavily linked with 21-year old.

Tom Biggs, 19, (Former Arsenal and Brighton) Interview

At what age did you start playing football and when was it you got picked up to play at a good standard?

I started playing football at the age of four for a local team called Mile Oak Colts. I joined a year early, so played a year above for my first season because at the time, it was the youngest team available. The following year, I stayed in the Under 5’s as they were known, and played for them. I stayed with them for three years before I was scouted by Arsenal.

Jason Hopkinson interview

I started coaching about twenty years ago, and I think I have always made progress and enhanced my skills wherever I’ve been as each place as been a learning place for me. I played for Eastbourne United and I know the preferences I’d choose when choosing the style with which I’d like to be trained.

Things could have been so different…

 This season has been poor. Supporters everywhere look forward to seasons that are full of “oooh” and “ahhh” moments. It’s fair to say that everybody loves a good shock now and then from a team that inexplicably punches above their weight, and survives the resulting blows.

Naaarwich

‘Where are you!? Come on, where are you!? “

Everyone must recognise that familiar phrase by now, from the lips of a slightly sozzled TV celebrity chef in her disgust at the noise levels emanating from Carrow Road back in 2005.