This week’s three selections all provide fuel for overarching themes of the day - ticket prices alone have begun to cause such a brouhaha that one can imagine a blog being instituted in order to deal with that topic and that topic alone:
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The Real Cost of being a fan in the Premier League, The Boot Room
Regular Blizzard contributor Iain Macintosh has proved to be one of …
There comes a point in every football fan’s life when the “sod it, I’m not going moment” occurs. For some Manchester City fans, contributing £62 to Arsenal’s coffers was a step too far. For me, spending £25 to sit in a rickety away end at Brisbane Road on a cold December afternoon watching Exeter toil against an equally uninspiring Leyton Orient side proved beyond even my levels of tolerance …
The Long Way by A. E. Greb
Published by Wholepoint Publications
June 2012, £1.50
ASIN: B008A3BLGG
A week away from this season’s FA Cup third round, it seems appropriate to look back to A. E. Greb’s account of the 2011-12 competition, published in the Summer as an eBook, a collection of the blog posts which accompanied his ten month peregrinations and which concluded with Chelsea’s win over Liverpool in …
We have been here before, of course.
The last time Arsenal played at Valley Parade the score was the same – 1-1 – although that was not settled by penalties. The time before that, Bradford City won 2-1. Those were Premier League games.
We have also beaten better teams than Arsenal at Valley Parade. In my first season back in 1980, a Liverpool team that did more in Europe …
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Published by Penguin as a Penguin Modern Classic
2012, £8.99
ISBN: 9780141391816
It’s a Friday night at the New Theatre in Oxford, and an appreciative round of applause ends Fever Pitch the play, a 90 minute soliloquy performed admirably by James Kermack. The production is an easy watch – the one-man format is faithful to the original book but somehow lacks ambition – and the …
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Steve: C.f. Phil Neville on MOTD2 talking about Rosicky's audacious blind pas...
Steve: Excellent article....
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
