I really don’t want to talk about it. I’m quite happy to do so but the problem is that I’ll end up repeating what I’ve said many times before. Yes it’s those referees and their agenda against our little football club again. I’ve just heard Andre Marriner has been stood down after Saturday’s blunder. Well, […]
It is often stated by some football fanatics and most non-football lovers that there is too much football on television. A better way to put it really is that there is too much mass media football on the box and not enough actual “footage” […]
It depends which way you look at it. Can I let you into a secret? I really, really don’t hate modern football. I hate modern football fans, I hate modern football players but by and large I hate people in general, so that shouldn’t come as that much of a shock. But anyway, despite its […]
It’s not big, it’s not clever. I’m not telling you this to show off or anything like that, it’s more of a confessional, but I snapped on Saturday. Now people will tell you that I’m a fairly argumentative bloke, I prefer to see myself as debat-umentative, but I tend to keep it amongst friends. Rightly […]
I’ve got off to a bad start this season, I’m offering no reasons or excuses, just laying on the line that I’ve not been as energetic or prolific on the writing front as I’d like to be. Probably not as much as I should be given my supposed role round here, if a blogger doesn’t […]
Many of you will have read comments attributed to Dave Whelan in recent weeks about his retirement from football and ultimate exit of Wigan Athletic. It has become clear to all but the most insistent in the last few years that Wigan Athletic will always struggle to financially survive in the Premier League over the […]
Aren’t we all feeling refreshed after the break and raring to go then? We have to be really. Every week in the previous four was perceived as make or break but if we don’t manage to get 4 points out of our next two games then staying in the Premier League will be a very […]
Some of you may recall a blog I did a couple of months ago under the above title. We all know what has happened in the last couple of months and it somehow feels even more difficult to introduce such a concept when we’re rooted to the bottom of the table. But you know what, […]
Lack of hope leads to despair until ultimately there is hope and defiance. The sooner we get out of the desperation stage the better for all concerned, whether that is by virtue of a miraculous climb up the table or a general consensus that we are adrift and it is best to start planning for […]
This is an illness known as Assocation Football Stress Disorder with many symptoms such as loose bowels,gastric problems, migraines and tension headaches with Tourette like symptoms often all on Saturday afternoons. Psychological symptoms include poor sleep patterns with the sufferer lying await at night pondering number sequences such as 451 and 442. and a single minded obsession […]