CAREER CHANGE 11 April 2024 0 comments Whether it’s Vinnie Jones starring in a Guy Ritchie film or Dion Dublin co-hosting BBC’s Homes Under the Hammer, life […]
CARTOON CAPERS 11 April 2024 0 comments Our resident artist Bob Bond laments the demise of the match cartoonist Tomorrow I’d like you to do Horwich Railwaymen’s […]
HAPPY WITH OUR LOT 11 April 2024 0 comments Watford fan Jonny Brick is quite content with his team never going up and never going down When Declan Rice […]
HOWARD’S WAY 11 April 2024 0 comments LIFELONG BIRMINGHAM CITY SUPPORTER KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN HOWARD KENDALL HELPED SAVE THE BLUES FROM RELEGATION HALF A CENTURY AGO… […]
SAMBA SUCCESS 11 April 2024 0 comments O Jogo Bonito! Brazil’s 1970 World Cup Samba Party, by Gary Thacker, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £18.99 GARY Thacker’s […]
LAYING FOUNDATIONS 11 April 2024 0 comments We Were Really There: The Rebirth of Manchester City, by David Bernstein with Tim Rich, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: […]
IF CRUYFF HAD JOINED FOXES! 11 April 2024 0 comments Matthew Mann imagines what life would have been like at Leicester City with the Dutch superstar in their ranks… THE […]
PURE FOOTBALL 15 February 2024 0 comments Gordon Milne: Shankly, My Dad and Me, with Steve Younger, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £25 IN HIS engrossing football […]
CUP FUN OVERFLOWS 15 February 2024 0 comments The Magic of the FA Cup!, by Bob Bond, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £19.99 IF YOU’RE a fan of […]
THE POWER OF PUNDITRY 15 February 2024 0 comments Jonny Brick gives five reasons why punditry, or ‘banternalysis’ as he calls it, remains a key pillar of today’s football […]
THE WISE OLD OWL 15 February 2024 0 comments Jonny Brick examines the career of legendary coach and manager Roy Hodgson ROY Hodgson has not yet written his memoir. […]
ENGLAND GOAL KINGS MANAGERIAL MISERY 15 February 2024 0 comments Keith Dixon says Wayne Rooney isn’t the only former three Lions goal-getter to struggle in management… As a Birmingham City […]
POETIC TALES 7 December 2023 0 comments Hinterlands – Travels around England’s non-league football grounds, by Christopher Towers, published by Big White Shed, Price: £10 FOOTBALL and […]
PASSING THE BATON 7 December 2023 0 comments The Ghosts of Inchmery Road, by Mat Guy, published by 1889 Books, Price: £10.99 ANYONE who has read Mat Guy’s […]
DELVING DEEP 7 December 2023 0 comments Unfit and Improper Persons: An Idiot’s Guide to Owning a Football Club, by Kevin Day, Kieran Maguire and Guy Kilty, […]
A COLOURFUL STORY 7 December 2023 0 comments The Shirt Hunter – One man’s ceaseless pursuit of classic football kits, by Peris Hatton with Derek Hatton and Gary […]
TWO BECOME ONE 7 December 2023 0 comments On-song Dave Colmer explores whether you can support two football teams Back in 1996, the Spice Girls (remember them!) once […]
SCORPION KICKS 7 December 2023 0 comments Alan Ayre explains why every team should have at least one Scorpio… FROM time immemorial Scorpio* has been considered the […]
Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend 18 November 2023 0 comments Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend is the colourful story of one of Lancashire’s […]
ENGLAND GLORY 15 October 2023 0 comments Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup, by Duncan Hamilton, published by Riverrun, Price: £24.99 ‘ANSWERED Prayers’ is Duncan […]
GUNNING FOR CHANGE 15 October 2023 0 comments Turncoat – How I Stopped Supporting Arsenal and Found a New Team, by Matt Coughlan, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: […]
FOOTBALL ON GRANDSTAND 15 October 2023 0 comments Sam Todd looks back at a much loved television programme from yesteryear… FOR those of us who became hooked on […]
MARSHALL ISLANDS’ MISSION 15 October 2023 0 comments Steve Kennedy reports on the Pacific Ocean country’s bid to establish themselves on the world football map Football is undergoing […]
SIGNS OF SMART RECRUITMENT 15 October 2023 0 comments ALAN AYRE EXPLORES WHY SOME PLAYERS SHINE AT A NEW CLUB WHILE OTHERS FAIL TO CUT THE MUSTARD… DURING the […]
DOING ERNIE PROUD 24 August 2023 0 comments Ernie! Hearfelt Recollections of the Footballing Legend Ernie Moss, by Stephen Poxon, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £16.99 TO SAY […]
COVERING ALL ANGLES 24 August 2023 0 comments Football and how to survive it, by Pat Nevin, published by Monoray, Price: £22 THIS is Pat Nevin’s second memoir, […]
Going Places 24 August 2023 0 comments Thomas Heath looks at the path taken by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s new stomping grounds… ONCE upon a time, […]
WHAT NEXT FOR DRAGONS? 24 August 2023 0 comments It’s Always Sunny in Wrexham, by Andrew Foley Jones, Price: £5.99 AFTER all that’s happened at Wrexham over the last […]
Pretty Poly 24 August 2023 0 comments Author Alex Ireland reflects on the history of the football shirt… THE humble football shirt has had a dramatic evolution […]
Mixing it with the big boys 24 August 2023 0 comments Sam Sheppey looks at how a few of the biggest Premier League underdogs fared against the elite… THE rise of […]