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Book Review: From the Back Page to the Front Room

From the Back Page to the Front Room by Roger Domeneghetti
Published by Ockley Books
2014, £9.99

Our latest book review features yet another offering from the industrious Ockley Books, an enterprise that has left no stone unturned in producing quality offerings from the football blogging community. To review Roger Domeneghetti’s From the Back Page to the Front Room, we have called upon Ollie Wright aka @derbycountyblog on …

Paolo Di Canio is not welcome back at Sheffield Wednesday

Today, we welcome back Sheffield Wednesday fan John Leigh, co-author of The Football Lexicon and author of Voltaire’s Sense of History. Here, John reacts to the rumours that are linking Paolo Di Canio with a return to Hillsborough.

My brother was at THAT infamous England vs Croatia game at Wembley. Remember the one: the Euro qualifier, the one we lost 3-2, the game in which Scott Carson …

Radio Review: The Monday Night Club

Some excuses to start with – I’m tired after the weekend, the work has piled up and I have rarely organised alternative activities. I don’t fancy embarking on the box set that has arrived from Lovefilm and I’m yet to be enticed into downloading any album so far released in 2013.

So I invariably find myself tuning in to BBC Radio Five Live and that station’s Monday Night Club

Mute point

So, three weeks into the new Football League season and in many ways it’s much the same as the last. The divisions might be different, but Southampton and Brighton are still dazzling on the south coast; Peterborough are still serving up improbable goalfests at London Road; Crawley are still cruising at the top of the league; and, less happily, Plymouth’s horrific decline continues seemingly unabated.

Changes have however been …

Television Review: The Football League Show (NZ)

The Football League Show
Mondays, 6.30pm (New Zealand time), Sky Sport 2

A few pre-Tuition fee hike years ago, I was fortunate enough to spend a year in New Zealand. Basing myself in Timaru, one of Aoteoroa’s less pluggable destinations, I had the year of my life familiarising myself with the nearby lakes, ski fields and rugged bush, and over the course of twelve months I gradually came to reinvent