February – So Far, So… Meh—But the Rest of the Month Still Looks Exciting
the month and things have gone… Well, not great, but not terrible either. Read More …
Tag: football
A Frustrating Night at the Golden Palace
I honestly think we were the better side against Arsenal last night. Not “just about” the better side, but the better side by some distance. Read More …
Wanderers Blockbuster February
February is going to be a massive month for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Six games in twenty-two days, one very winnable-looking game in the FA Cup followed by five very tough-looking Premier League fixtures. Read More …
Are there any Premier League Clubs still wholly British owned?
I’ve imported some older blog posts of mine from other blogs into this one and going through them I came across this post from 2010 on the sale of Blackburn Rovers to the Indian chicken farmers, the Venkey’s Group. Read More …
2020/21 – The Season that Football will want to Forget
From the lack of crowds to the burned-out players leading to a higher than usual injury rate, to the utterly abysmal way in which VAR seems to be getting worse, not better and the over-saturation of coverage of TV… It’s just been a bit shit. Read More …
Fatherly Pride
It was with a very fatherly sense of pride that I watched my son’s football coach call him back for a “quick word” after he’d dismissed the rest of the team following their 7-1 victory this weekend. Read More …
Still part of the Team
Back in 2015, I wrote about the importance of Team Sports in the context of my Son joining an under-10s football team.
Three seasons later and he’s still playing for the same team. Read More …
The Importance of Team Sports
My son will be 10 at the end of December, and after several years of him asking to join a football team, I finally relented and found him a club for this season. (By football, I mean the game that is called “soccer” in some parts of the world—the one that’s actually played with one’s feet rather than one’s hands, hence the name. This is the first and last time you’ll hear me call it soccer) Read More …
Saunders can do a Job
I’ve got to say, I really like the noises coming out of Molineux following the appointment of Dean Saunders as manager. Read More …