Graham Fisher
Graham is a 46 year old freelance football writer from Salisbury in England. He has a passion for football, in particular, Watford and the team he coaches, Wilton Town. Graham writes opinions and observations for various online sites, www.4sportsake.com, www.soccernews.com, www.sportingo.com and www.soccer-weblog.com. Visit his football club's website at www.wiltontownfc.co.uk
Championship players dare not get promoted
What a shame it was to see Derby County concede six at home to Aston Villa over the weekend. I’m sure Villa fans and probably all of Derby’s local rivals will have enjoyed the humiliation but no neutral football fans can enjoy watching a team so desperately out of their depth. I watched my beloved…
Is football more important than life and death?
“It’s just a game. Twenty-two stupid men chasing a ball around a pitch.” We’ve all heard it said. In fact, when our team have lost a game we have even been known to say it ourselves. Usually after the fourth or fifth pint. Bill Shankly once famously said that football was more important than life…
Help me, I’m a Watford supporter
One of the many privileges of being a football writer is that occasionally you can be totally self indulgent and write something just to get it off your chest. Today I am going to abuse my position and do just that. Hello everyone, my name is Graham and I’m a Watford supporter. I’m thinking of…
The Footballer’s Life: more than just glory, fame and fortune
So, a twenty-two year old goalkeeper has been charged with blackmail against a Premier League footballer. The story is that currently club less Goalkeeper Ashley Timms, is accused of demanding £15,000 from an unnamed player. He appeared at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Saturday charged with making an unwarranted demand for money with menaces between March…
Neil Warnock – The Marmite man of English football – Love Him or Hate Him?
All English football fans know all about Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock. He is a manager who you either absolutely love or absolutely hate. For those fans not in England you might not know too much about him. He is a loud, opinionated and vaguely unpleasant man during games and is constantly in trouble with…
The Magic of the FA Cup – Lost in Memories
Something very sad happened to me on Sunday 6th April. It was the day that I realised that the FA Cup had finally lost its ‘magic’. I was watching the semi-final between Cardiff and Barnsley on the television and my fourteen year-old football mad son said, “I don’t care about this game,” and walked out…
Bad behaviour in the Premier League? – Let’s get things in perspective
There has been an awful lot written this season about the ‘respect agenda’, the malicious tackles creeping into the game and the hounding of referees. Most of what has been written has been along the lines of suggesting that the players at the very top of the game have a duty to act as role…
Why are Arsenal fans turning on Wenger?
OK, before I start I need to make a couple of things clear. I’m not a Manchester United fan, nor do I support Arsenal or Chelsea or Liverpool. The fact is that I still curse my mum and dad on a daily basis for living in Watford. Why couldn’t they have moved to Manchester or…
Javier Mascherano’s apology and playing ‘hard but fair’
I make no apologies for returning to the Javier Mascherano sending off at Old Trafford, despite the strong feelings the subject aroused on both sides of the argument. If we couldn’t all agree on who was right or who was wrong in the incident and the analysis of it, then I hope we can all…
Fergie, Wenger, Benitez, Grant move over, I could do that, give us a job
What does being a manager mean? For teams in the Blue Square Premier and the lower reaches of League Two it means a much different thing to being the manager of a top Premiership side. For those down there in the depths being a manager might mean sweeping out the dressing rooms, ringing players up…
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