It’s time for Part Two of my somewhat unfair but hopefully constructive criticism of Match of the Day and my ambitious proposals for reform. In Part One, I tried to cram the perceived (by me) problem into…Read More
At the start of the 1964/65 Division One season, the BBC’s flagship football show hit the airwaves for the first time. Match of the Day has a rich history, badging Football League highlights shows as well as live…Read More
Football: universal language, beautiful game, cultural keystone. Football as an idea, a game and a community pillar will never die. If the unthinkable happened and the bubble burst, some blokes would pinch the goalposts out of their abandoned local…Read More
Fabio Capello has, undoubtedly, been a very successful club manager in the past. His travails at the World Cup suggest that he hasn’t quite got the hang of international management yet. In South Africa, England fielded centre-backs with no…Read More
Warning: The following statement may cause readers to spit out lukewarm tea in a spray of disgust or be impelled to send waves of voodoo curses towards this erstwhile correspondent. The local derby is fast receding into an anachronistic…Read More
Jim Rosenthal may not have talked it up when the two balls came, but there was no doubt what Twitter and the media viewed as the potential tie of the second round: AFC Wimbledon versus MK Dons. The club…Read More