The aesthetically challenged world of football
Football in 2013 looks awfully different to what it did twenty years ago. I’m not talking about the big changes...
Home from home at Home Park
The bottom end of the League Two table in May 2013 could have provided the definitive case study of the...
Characters of world football immortalized in ink
Introducing the wonderfully deft pen strokes of Mr Davey Blackett. More of Davey’s cracking craftsmanship can be found on The...
Transfer talk at Fulham reserved for a statue, for now anyway
As some top flight clubs begin their pre-season campaign with lucrative brand promoting trips to the Far East, so transfer...
Barcelona’s boomerang kid contemplates stop-over at Manchester United
The prospect of Thiago at Manchester United has me drooling like a St. Bernard on a hot day. I have...
Whose line is it anyway?
At the end of a long season of screen-watching I take a grateful moment to gaze ahead at the footballing...
Finding beauty in the 2013/14 season
I started this season pointing out my disillusionment with modern football - the senseless and hollow fanfare that surrounds the...
Questions over the new Everton manager Roberto Martinez and a short treatise on Mark Hughes
My first competitive footballing experience came at the tutelage of a short Italian man with simple ideas about the game....
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Guess the facially fuzzy player from their classic football sticker
Image conscious and media savvy, present day footballers are largely polished representatives of their club and the cliché ridden game. However,...















