Author: Ben
Honesty: the best policy?
For the most part this site is resolutely non-partisan, shying away from inflammatory articles and the bilious, monosyllabic responses they attract from spittle-flecked, talkSPORT-listening meatheads in favour of carefully considered argument and reasonable, civil debate. In fact, the only thing that seems to get the eminently agreeable Lanterne Rouge hot under the collar is a certain mob from Milton Keynes, worthy winners of this year’s TTU Award for Crimes …
Ask and you shall get (the sack)
In the wake of Billy Davies’ departure from Nottingham Forest, the BBC’s Midlands reporter Pat Murphy claimed a second play-off defeat in two years had brought an end to the “uneasy truce” between the manager and his chairman, Nigel Doughty. It’s a strange kind of truce where one of the warring factions regularly clambers out of the trenches and into no man’s land to fire pot-shots at …
Mock, mock and Phil Brown’s two smoking barrels
Schadenfreude may not be edifying, but it certainly seems to be a particular preoccupation of the football fan. Time was when goading your local rivals was confined to a selection of uncomplimentary chants and maybe the odd rude gesture. Not any more - the bar appears to have been raised considerably.
Take Man City, for example. The now-infamous billboard poster unveiled after they’d pinched Carlos Tevez from city rivals United, …
Coward’s way
Your team is busy fluffing its chance of automatic promotion to football’s top table in spectacular fashion, 3-0 down at home to a side who’ve struggled all season and who have nothing to play for. So how do you react? Redouble your efforts, clinging to the hope that you might somehow defy the odds? Or take out your frustrations with a cowardly assault on an assistant referee and then trot …
Iron in the fire
As baptisms of fire go, they don’t come much more fiery than Alan Knill’s at Scunthorpe. The erstwhile Bury manager’s first game in charge of the team he once played for took place at Carrow Road and saw his side given a brutal pummelling. Norwich’s mercilessness was exemplified by the fact that one hat-trick (from Grant Holt) was followed by another from Simeon Jackson, a player whom Paul …