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- The big kick-off
The Football League has kicked off – but there’s still a week for you to join us all before the Completetosh.com League of Scoundrels gets going.
- It helps to forget
It’s the week of the summer which proves: a really bad memory only helps you become a better football fan.
Let me explain: the new season may be two months off – the fixture list isn’t even out yet – but the arrival of the new season ticket is an exciting moment. Mine thudded onto the [...]
- Cheek by jowl
It’s rare you step out a football ground to be afforded a fine view of tonight’s dirty dishes in someone’s kitchen sink, but that’s what away fans at Kenilworth Road, Luton, get as they embark down a steep (and rather slippy) staircase.
This is the view out the back of the away end, behind one goal [...]
- Oh what can it be…
It’s FA Cup Third Round weekend and, ahead of the mighty Town taking on Palace next door (I’m the only Town fan excited by this draw) I think the true definition of supporting a shit football team has been found, in today’s Guardian. None of this “living in hope”, “I go for the socialising” or [...]
- Down
The depressing thing about relegation is that it’s not actually as devastating as you might imagine.
Sky Sports, always with an eye to the drama of the game, will mark the relegation of a side with a crash zoom in on some puffy-eyed, shaven headed ultra, wiping tears from his face with a tattooed arm and [...]
- The cost of football
Ticket prices for one adult ticket, plus one child, for the next home game from today’s Observer (with one addition – see if you can guess where)
Chelsea £90 Birmingham £60.50 Newcastle £56 Portsmouth £52 Everton £46 Real Madrid £28.60Swindon Town, currently third bottom of the damned League One table £28 Bolton £26 Valencia £24.80 Crawley [...]
- What’s wrong with a weekend in Swindon?
I’m horrified to see, via our own Newsblog, that Swindon has been included in the new Idler book of crap holidays. What could be a better place to spend a weekend than this fine railway town? The author simply lacked the imagination to deal with this town of contrasts.
Arrive Saturday AM, and go shopping in [...]
- Scotland finds a striker
Wonderful news this week for those of us in that most un-crowded of demographics: Swindon Town-supporting Scotsmen. For mighty, not to say Super, Sam Parkin has been called up to the Scottish "Future" squad to face Austria next Tuesday in Mattersburg. He’s been in sensational form for Town this season, racking up 23 goals (and [...]
- The redemption of David Duke
A salute is in order, tonight, to a young footballer you’ve never heard of. Here’s a story that’s a million miles away from your Premiership tantrums and snorting disgraces, and a million times more uplifting for it. It concerns no multimillionaire pop culture icon, but a young pro who earns less in a year than [...]
- Eee aye eee aye eee aye oh, it’s up the football league championship wossname we go
Terrible things happen to sporting championships when you start messing around with the format.
Just ask the Scottish Premier League or – sorry – the Scottish Premierleague – whoops, no – the SPL. Back in the 90s, not content with being unfairly branded a “Mickey Mouse league” by anyone south of the border, Scottish football’s [...]
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