Archive for the 'Football' Category

Watching Match Of The Day 2 this evening I couldn’t help thinking about Scotland’s recent failure to qualify for the World Cup. In many of the articles I read on the subject the failure was put down to the failure of Scottish football to produce as many world class footballers as it did in the [...]

Tic Tac Recreates The Goal ITV Missed

As many of you will undoubtedly know, during the recent FA Cup replay between arch-rivals Liverpool & Everton, ITV ‘accidentally’ cut away to an ad break in the 118th minute of the match. It was approaching the end of extra time and the match was about to go to penalties unless one of the teams [...]

I Lived In A Giant Killer’s House

Today is FA Cup Third Round day, when the minnows of the lower divisions, and even non-league clubs, get their day in the sun, taking on Premier League sides. On Football Focus this afternoon they’ve been looking back at some of the most memorable examples of top-league sides getting knocked out by groups of plumbers [...]

Paul Ince Ad For Jobsite

I do love good advertising. Not much more than 24 hours after being given the boot by Blackburn Rovers, Paul Ince has suffered the ignominy of being the brunt of a sarcastic print ad. I saw the ad above in one of the free London papers (I can never remember which is which) earlier this [...]

Joe Kinnear: Fu*king And Football

  Joe Kinnear is my new hero. You have to admire a man who only takes 8 words before calling a journalist a c**t. Well, now The Guardian have had the inspired idea of putting the transcript of the press conference through Wordle (which I wrote about a while back), the website that creates a [...]


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