Falling for Football edited by Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald
Published by Ockley Books
2014, £11.99
Falling for Football is a highly significant book and not just because of the way it expertly conjures up why we fall for the sport, its tribulations and tensions, its vitality and emotion, in the first place. It is also noteworthy for the service editors Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald have performed …
Self-propelled football writing on the internet has been up and running for some time now and while a number of sites have now established themselves as reliable go-to sources of articles, a recent phalanx of writers has emerged in their wake.
Enter The Football Pink, stewarded by Mark Godfrey. The publication has attempted to tackle head on the issue of how to make money in a field …
Today, we highlight an issue which supporters of every football club will do well to take note of. The separation of ownership between stadium and club has wreaked havoc on the financial landscape of the sport in recent years and many are still struggling with the consequences. Steps can be taken to avoid the worst of these however and here, Oxford United Matthew Derbyshire takes up the story. Matt …
My first visit to Yeovil Town’s Huish Park recently presented more than a few problems in finding the stadium. Situated on an industrial estate in the westerly suburbs of this surprisingly unlovely town, the one road in/one road out access shouldn’t have been too difficult to negotiate, especially at a full speed of roughly 8 miles an hour.
But all this was after an unscheduled tour of Yeovil’s ring …
Firoz Kassam was in a quandary in November 2004. Of all the managers he’d appointed since buying Oxford United for £1 five years previously, the latest, Graham Rix, was arguably the worst. Since his arrival in March that year, Rix had managed to torpedo the side’s promotion campaign, guiding a team in the play-off places when he took over to a ninth place finish. Then, despite bringing in numerous …
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
Phil Lloyd: Thanks, Jim, appreciate your comments. I think we are the lucky ones, ...
Jim Wilkinson: Lovely piece Phil... Brings home the unfathomable concept that playing...
Chris Walker: Tom, apologies. You are indeed correct. My recollection of Burnley's a...
Tom Whittaker: Incredibly unfair comment re: Burnley's away form- we actually managed...
