I was recently invited by a work colleague to watch the Arsenal v Celtic game at the Emirates Stadium. To be fair it is a majestic piece of stadium architecture (especially when compared to another ground I recently visited – East Fife’s Bayview Stadium which only has one stand and enjoys the glorious backdrop of [...]

Well it’s been quite a week. Although we’ve lost two games and only scored one goal I think most of us are satisfied with our first away win ever in the Premiership (as we all know football started in 1992 – prior to that everyone was just playing mob football where matches would last five [...]

I think we can all agree there has been a gaping hole in our lives since Andy Townsend’s Tactics Truck went the same way as Minidiscs, garage music and that dude off of Countdown. The analysis provided by those sinister men in dark shirts on MotD (apparently they used to play for Liverpool, who knew?) [...]

A summer off from football with no World Cup or European Championships to help ease the pain allows a man to fester and ponder upon the upcoming season to an unhealthy degree. Initial thoughts were of excitement. Excitement generated by thinking about all the great players like Torres, Arshavin and Shawcross who would come to [...]

Like a lot of people who visit this blog I enjoy reading about football. In fact I love reading about football and I’d quite happily stare at a toilet wall smeared with a strategically placed turd if I thought it would offer me some insight into why Mark McGhee decided to play Robbie Slater, Steve [...]

Like most right minded people I hate my job. I particularly hate my job in the summer when I can’t rely on football chat to help fill those awkward moments around the coffee machine. Instead each morning is a slow death as I dredge my subconscious in a desperate effort to plug that deafening silence [...]