Time to support non-league football

The BBC’s superb Non League Football Show is under threat because of corporation cuts whilst at the other end of the spectrum Liverpool reveal they are in favour of negotiating overseas TV rights separately from other Premier League clubs. It’s time to give our support to local clubs. Continue reading

Tuesday Shortlist: Annoying Transfer Sagas

The transfer window continues. Without much football, the tabloids turn to transfer sagas to fill their pages resulting in the average football fan suffering for months on end as the same dull story that probably isn’t true anyway is rehashed again and again and again. Here are five annoying transfer sagas rehashed for you once more… Continue reading

The deadline day soap opera

The final day of the January transfer window is rarely a placid affair. Yesterday, though, rewrote the rulebook on deadline day madness, beginning breathlessly and descending almost into the realms of make-believe. That was just the stuff that wasn’t made up. Continue reading

Dangerous tackles in the limelight

If there’s one debate that has been ignited during FA Cup 3rd round weekend, it’s that of the two-footed tackle. Both Cheick Tiote and Steven Gerrard were given straight red cards for their respective offences, and on both occasions television pundits were ready to defend them and accuse the referees of being harsh.

On both occasions, they were wrong. Continue reading