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.
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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Written by markwithoutspin. 12 comments
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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Written by Marco Pantanella. 19 comments
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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Written by markwithoutspin. 5 comments
On Monday, The Times published a list of ‘Football’s 50 rising stars’. Tucked...
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Written by Fredorrarci. 48 comments
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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Written by Yomi Akinyemi. One comment
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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Written by Gary Andrews. 3 comments
Dear reader,
It has been brought to my attention that you support a football club which is different to that which I support.
The regrettable but necessary responsibility therefore falls upon me to inform you that your team sucks.
Your...
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Written by Fredorrarci. 7 comments
It’s 2008: the blogging revolution has been absorbed by the establishment press and propped up as a new ‘form’ of journalism. Just read Andrew Sullivan’s recent ...
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Written by Richard Whittall. 4 comments
Footballers has it’s share of interesting characters. Some are interesting by virtue of their names, others by who they...
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Written by Soccerlens. 4 comments
Goal.com took great pride in its ‘exclusive‘ with Gigi Buffon’s agent which effectively trashed...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 2 comments
