Whilst listening to a bit of relaxing music I pondered the meanings of each planet and their meaning in Holst’s tunes in relation to the good folk here at this northern soul establishment.

   Besides the striking yellow colour the simplicity of the Brazil shirt was its most endearing trait, however putting a green band on the chest is a downright insult to a classic design.

He’s not the one who will take the credit for it but last Sunday was all about one man: Roberto Martinez. Last seen on the Britannia Stadium pitch being bounced up and down by his squad, these movements were a fair reflection of results during his two seasons in charge, although like most of us, […]

And in my case it’s probably a good thing because when I was nineteen we were getting tonked by the likes of Port Vale and Plymouth not Chelsea and Blackpool. I travelled to Bournemouth in a game where we’d already been relegated, spent 12 hours driving 500 miles in a battered old Toyota Corolla while […]

  Let’s talk about goalkeepers then. Yes we know they are over-protected in modern football and the days of Dixie Dean barging both ‘keeper and ball into the back of the net are but a distant memory. For me, you can take all those rules away now. Let’s make it a free for all. I […]

So that’s two more blank weekends in the goals scored column. Against Spurs, you can’t say it wasn’t for the lack of trying. With Gomes performing heroics in the Spurs goal and a shoot on sight policy albeit with the sights being aimed firmly in the North Stand in the first half, we certainly gave […]

Adrian Mutu tested positive for cocaine at Chelsea in 2004The West London club terminated his contract Mark Bosnich failed a drugs test for Chelsea in 2002 and later admitted cocaine useChelsea ripped up his contract and got shut of him Matt Stevens, an international rugby union player failed a drugs test while playing for Bath […]

I do like getting stuck into a good blog and it’s fortunate that there are a myriad of great football blogs out there. One of the blogs I’ve picked up recently is the 72, which for those of you with a rudimentary mathematical brain may recognise is geared up to the seventy-two Football League clubs […]

I’ll never forget him, though I’ve long since forgotten his surname, to me he’ll always be known as “Ted the Football Man” I first met Ted in the early 70’s when I started working at Ashton’s the town’s premier tobacconists. He worked in the warehouse and was a supervisor for a team of packers. My […]