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
In years gone by, it was commonly accepted that everyone loved watching Newcastle United. Not me. I’ve long been frustrated at the ludicrously disproportionate focus on them in the media and with the attitude of a vocal section of…Read More
The Premier League’s predictability mercifully took the weekend off as Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur all slumped to defeats in games they expected to win. Elsewhere, struggles continue for Wigan, West Ham and Wolves, while Mario Balotelli showed England…Read More
A spicy weekend in the Premier League saw Newcastle triumph emphatically in the Tyne-Wear derby, Villa and Birmingham cancel each other out and Wolves pick up a surprise win against high-flying Manchester City. But the biggest talking point of…Read More
There is no friendly rivalry in Birmingham. Supporters of Aston Villa and Birmingham City absolutely detest one another, and this combined with the relative sparcity of derbies over the years means that the clashes since Birmingham’s rise back to…Read More
It threatened to be a low-key Premier League weekend, with only a couple of fixtures looking anything like an enticing way to spend a couple of hours. But the self-proclaimed ‘best league in the world’ pulled one out of…Read More