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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Feb
18
2009

The Favelas of Brazil

A distant Favela is splayed across a lush green landscape, alive with the soft rumble of traffic parallel to its make-shift wooden walls; marking an impoverished slum forgotten amongst the beauty and glamour of Rio de Janeiro’s sleek office blocks...

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Feb
18
2009

Donna Powell to manage Fisher Athletic against Eastleigh

Donna Powell – turnstile operator at Fisher Athletic – is set to make footballing history when she leads the club out for today’s Blue Square South match against Eastleigh.

She raised £500 for the club and was rewarded...

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Feb
15
2009

Nike Five – Rooney gets nutmegged

Nike Five is an upcoming national 5-a-side tournament held by Nike in England, dedicated to giving urban footballers a stage to showcase their skills and prove that they’re amongst the best sides in the country.

As part of the buildup,...

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Feb
12
2009

It’s Time to End the Scourge of Referees for Good

We’ve all experienced it.

You’re watching a Premier League game, taking in the glorious spectacle. Perhaps you’re supporting one of the teams, or perhaps your betting slip is. You’re in it to see the greatest players...

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Feb
6
2009

Football Fork – May 1996 – Keegan’s mind-games spur Newcastle to the title

Was the failure to capture the 1995/6 Premiership having at one stage enjoyed a 12 point lead the beginning of the end for the Newcastle dream and Kevin Keegan’s managerial credibility?

This week we ponder what might have been if the Magpies’...

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Jan
31
2009

The Times’s 50 Worst Things About Modern Football

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it’s not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents...

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Jan
29
2009

Football fork – January 2007 – Liverpool bought by the DIC group

About ten years ago Nick Hancock co-wrote a book called What Didn’t Happen Next, which was an amusing look at the butterfly effect in football and those little changes which might have rewritten the annals of football.

What if...

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Jan
15
2009

The curious case of Masal Bugduv

On Monday, The Times published a list of ‘Football’s 50 rising stars’. Tucked...

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Jan
13
2009

Topsy Turvy – A date with Antonio Cassano

I get nervous when footballers release the inevitable ghost-written autobiography.

Will I be violently slapped in the face reading rubbish in the shape of My Defence by Ashley Cole, Robbie Fowler’s:...

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Jan
6
2009

Dean Windass does his transfer dealings via the internet

Ordinarily the news that Dean Windass may move to Hartlepool on loan would maybe just make a quite line in a News In Brief column. But it’s not so much the transfer, as the way that it’s come about that’s of interest.

Windass’...

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