“Dad, why have they all got yellow shirts on” Of course the easy answer is that’s the colour of the Norwich shirt. But I don’t think that’s what Master Perm jnr was getting at when, on the opening day of the season, he pointed at the hordes in the North Stand, his question could have […]
Continuing our celebration of the oval ball game and our trawl through the archives, here’s an article from the (occassionally) respectable Johnny Bogroll recalling a story that would be enough to put you off anything, let alone playing with funny shaped balls. Why I hate the rugby. Reason #437: They illegally dispose of dead bodies […]
So, it’s the (assume cut class ‘posh northern’ accent) Silk Cut Challenge Cup final in that London this weekend and, as you may have noticed the other day, our thoughts have turned to our near neighbours, the Wigan Warriors. Of course, by kick off, you’ll be sick to death of hearing just how muchof a […]
I started by calling us Latics because that’s what they call us. And what’s wrong with that, after all it’s our nickname? Well you see that’s not the reason they call us ‘Latics’ – the real reason is that they simply can’t bear to call us Wigan Athletic because they want Wigan to themselves […]
‘They have greater aspirations, and it would be interesting, yes’. First up, I’m paraphrasing because I’m not wading through all the rubbish on NewsNow to find the couple of articles that actually bothered with what was a quite interesting (and rare) quote from the man himself. Secondly, what a ringing endorsement that is for Aston […]
It’s that time of year again where the fans love to take a punt on season ticket sales. The club put out a positive statement a few weeks ago stating that season tickets are 50% up, there are also informal noises being made that we have already sold more in total than we did last […]
So a hypothetical situation…. Aston Villa have a large chunk of money burning a hole in their pocket following the sale of Stewart Downing and Ashley Young. Let’s just for a second assume that the rumours plastered all over NewsNow from the usual syndicated websites are true and that the Midlands club are interested […]
I know that YOTAC sort of adopted Ashton Athletic as their second club and Bernard has Colwyn Bay FC close to his heart but reading The Rothmans (SkySports) Yearbook on a sunny weekend (& yes I should get a life) it struck me that a club 66 miles away, a one & half hours […]
Let me tell you how this started. It started with a spot of old fashioned debate between the message board patrons of This Northern Soul, and regular contributor Wildheart was telling us how a few of his friends weren’t renewing this season due to lack of value. They may well have a point: with […]
Yes you heard that right, our mercurial Frenchman has been spotted at such outposts as Carlisle and Exeter hiding behind sunglasses and a snorkel Parka in a desperate bid to achieve his childhood dream of attending a match at every football club in the top four stages of the league pyramid. Well no, not quite, […]