Here at TTU, we’ve all headed back to work this week. Helping to ease the pain have been a number of well researched and written articles, as you’d perhaps expect on the back of a holiday season which for many provides the kind of time and space which is unattainable in and around normal working weeks.
The Best of Football Writing in 2012, A Football Report [1]
As we’re wont to do on this site, our recommend list begins this week with another list. Headed proudly by our very own Rob Langham’s post on Speaking Out on the Internet [2], this selection of articles represents a fine year’s work by professionals and mere enthusiasts alike and will have provided a neat distraction for any reluctant worker heading back to the office this week.
The Ten Commandments of Goalkeeping Attire, Two Hundred Percent [3]
The quantity of coverage generated by Two Hundred Percent is quite staggering. With articles such as this – from Ian King – however, they prove again that rate of postage needn’t come at the expense of quality. Here, King - in the manner of one Scroobius Pip [4] – takes us through a sequence of 10 rules that goalkeepers should adhere by, no doubt tickling a few bellies along the way. Taken from #10, “Nothing on a football pitch says ‘I’ve given up’ quite like a goalkeeper with their shirt untucked.” Quite.
Well, you know Robbie…Shebby Singh does 606, 2nd Yellow [5]
So Henning Berg was a bit shit. But that doesn’t absolve the Blackburn board – whomever that comprises these days – of responsibility for his appointment or the continued open-air, all-out shambles that the club insists on portraying itself as. One of the latest episodes, a live interview with Rovers’ Global Advisor Shebby Singh – will have done little to allay supporters’ fears and embarrassment. Mark Chalcraft followed up with a nice précis here.
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