Being a fan of your local side isn’t always a pleasant experience, especially when they are a club plying their trade outside of the football league. On a freezing January evening when the rain is streaming profusely from the sky, the free flowing football and sheltered seating at Old Trafford doesn’t seem so bad after all.
Whilst I love football, I have never really paid that much notice to Beach Soccer. My knowledge of the sport was limited prior to writing this; hopefully by the end of the article you’ll start taking an interest … I know I am going to.
Former Arsenal star Alexander Hleb is keen to reunite with old club Arsenal.
Aberdeen were keen to put right the four defeats already suffered this season against Celtic which included 17 goals conceded and only 1 scored.
Sometimes, just sometimes, things don’t go to plan. This weekend was definitely one of those occasions for me. Firstly, I was given the Championship relegation clash between Preston and Sheffield United, then I was switched to another Championship game Coventry versus Millwall, and then after watching the game I was told not to do any interviews. And the reason why… there wasn’t a cameraman there for me!
The League 1 campaign for automatic promotion has in the recent weeks been billed as a race between 2nd placed Southampton, 3rd placed Huddersfield and 5th placed MK Dons.
Never in the politics of the governance of football has there been a time when rank hypocrisy has been in evidence. Ok, apart from differing punishments for Torquay and Herford compared to West Ham (regarding Carlos Tevez) for essentially the same crime
In football, just like any other walk of life, certain things go in and out of fashion. Bands, clothes, artists, styles all rise and fall as trends dictate. Some are mourned when they pass, others like the mullet are so earth-shatteringly awful they remain reviled to this day.