Off The Record News Archives


If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.

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Oct
18
2006

Chelsea need to find balance

It is indicative of Chelsea’s ill reputation that Jose Mourinho’s just concerns about Petr Cech were scorned and his comments on Stephen Hunt criticised and vilified in the media.

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Oct
10
2006

Steve McClaren reads Soccerlens.com

Don’t believe me? Here’s solid proof.

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Sep
28
2006

Stick Sports Football – bend it like a banana

Stick Sports, the team that brought us Stick Cricket, has jumped head-first into building a flash-based football game.

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Sep
20
2006

Everything that’s wrong about football

This is followed on from yesterday’s piece on footballing myths.

Last night’s BBC Panorama’s...

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Sep
19
2006

Off The Record – Footballing Myths

Today, 19th September, marks the 5-month anniversary of Soccerlens (yay!).

In this short period of time writing about football I’ve come to realise that there are many myths perpetrated about football, clubs and players that go unchecked...

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Sep
19
2006

The G14 Mafioso – An Enemy Within

Last week, I met up with an old friend after work for a quick beer or seven. During the discourse of the evening, he began to lament the change the Political Correctness movement has had on life on the Britannia Isle.

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Sep
16
2006

Deconstructing Football’s Conspiracy Theorem

(Note to the Soccerlens Massive: I was gonna keep stoom on this but, now the dust is settled, I thought I’d put my ha’penny’s in…)

A rhetorical question: Can the existence of an organisation as decidedly iffy...

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Sep
11
2006

The Unbearable Lightness of Being…A Spurs Fan

A few hours after the referee had blown the final whistle, I find myself sitting in a restaurant, opposite a beautiful woman, picking at a calamari entrée and throwing a glass of (rather cheeky) Chardonnay down my throat.

“You okay...

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Sep
1
2006

Off The Record: It’s Good To Talk – Gooner-baiting in Essex

This was forwarded to me via email. The bloke that sent it swears blind it is a true story. For what it’s worth, my opinion is it probably isn’t.

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Aug
21
2006

Off The Record: lies, corruption and plain stupidity

Throughout the summer, I’ve heard various sets of fans (from clubs that struggle to fill their stadiums, plus those that boast about their small ones (stadiums, that is)) that Manchester United is in decline.

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