Tag: Football

  • Escape to Victory

    Now let me explain why I’m watching a film that is some 28 years old. As I suspect is true of most parents, I’m living vicariously through my children. From visiting lower league football grounds to watching old films unwatched in decades, I’m using the fact that I have a 12-year old son as an excuse for some fairly…

  • Tom Finney

    Known as the Preston Plumber, this 76-times capped winger is still considered one of the greatest British players of all time.  He became an apprentice plumber at 14, a trade he continued all his working life, even at the height of his international fame.  Yet during the 40s and 50s he was never paid any…

  • Ode to Andy Murray

    On the occasion of tennis superstar Andy Murray upsetting the sensibilities of the English nation by saying he’d not support their bid for World Cup glory

  • Anyone But England

    On the occasion of the 2006 World Cup and in the wake of ‘controversy’ over my declaration of support for Trinidad and Tobago

  • Switzerland, oh Switzerland

    On the sad occasion of the sporting defeat of our near neighbours

  • Ode to Zinedine Zidane

    On the sad occasion of another sporting setback for our near neighbours

  • Bigot Ron Atkinson

    Blimey, can a man not speak his mind these days without the politically correct brigadiers getting all hot under their collars? Big Ron Atkinson, the working man’s microphonist, said a couple of things he didn’t mean anyone to hear and suddenly the poor bloke’s lost his job. Bleedin ridiculous if you ask me. Okay, so…

  • Goldenballs

    Blimey, I can’t believe all this locomotion about Sir David Beckham and this bit of Spanish skirt he’s supposed to have been knocking up. Can’t a man have any fun these days without it being plastered all over the bleedin papers? This Loos woman who he’s been doing shooting practice with ain’t much of a…