Who would you use as an example if you wanted to illustrate the worst kind of idiocy or incompetence on the football field, or indeed in sport generally?
Several names, possibly the directors of major football clubs or members of the ITV commentary team, spring immediately to mind, but the answer, of course, is Your Nan.
Ask any Lad aged between eight and eighty who they’d use as …
Haircuts and League Cups: The Rise and Fall of Carson Yeung by Daniel Ivery and Will Giles
Published by GHI HK Limited
2014, £20
The career of Carson Yeung, and his troubled reign as Birmingham City chairman, is chronicled in a colourful book by Blues blogger Daniel Ivery.
Birmingham City meet West Bromwich Albion on Saturday at St Andrews, their first meeting since 5 March 2011 – six days …
Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this season’s Championship - a competition where extortionate transfer fees, underqualified managers and frankly terrifying owners hold sway, where parachute payments warp the competition and everyone is indulging in the filthy scramble for Premier League …
It was a close-call, but Danny Ings pipped fellow Claret Kieran Trippier to this year’s YP gong. The Wintonian was simply irrepressible and – to Burnley supporters’ joy – managed to return from the sidelines just as his strike partner Sam Vokes had hobbled off with a season-ending injury. Trippier, who once again claimed the right-back spot in the divisional PFA team of the year, can however be considered …
Last week, one of our founding bloggers sat down in an attempt to make head or tail of the ownership and financial situation at Birmingham City Football Club; a topic we last explored a little over a year ago. Having waded through almost a hundred pages of press reports and blog posts including, most notably, Two Hundred Percent’s attempts to get to the bottom of the situation, he …
Mike: Good piece, which I read mainly from the perspective of a Boro fan loo...
Andy Clark: Sounds like a fantastic book, not for everyone of course but I enjoy t...
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Steve: Did Warnock deliberately get the game called off? No. Brown and Ullath...
