As we moved into the domestic footballing desert that is June there was just time for one final, football-shaped Satday shenanigan in the form of the Stand by your Saints family day. As it involved family I managed to drag … Continue reading
“In the history of the Premier League eight teams had less than 20 points from 29 games and all eight finished bottom of the table. Lesta City took 19 points from their first 29 games and 22 points from their … Continue reading
I have spent the last three months composing misery festooned relegation blogs with a tragic Shakespearean theme in readiness for what I and many other better paid (indeed paid at all) pundits were expecting. Only to find myself happily proved … Continue reading
Like that tricky second album I did fear for the quality of Part Deux of the birthday trilogy. The scene was surely set for TLF to be proved right and for the “we are staying up” balloon to burst. Nigel … Continue reading
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I have always been fairly neutral when it comes to her Madge. I am not of course referring to the popular chanteuse Madonna here but HRH. No, not Clare Balding, the other one. Liz (or Brenda as Private Eye prefer) … Continue reading
The denouement of the St Albans City act of the two act (well two club) tragi-comedy that is my 2014/15 season plays out away against Hayes and Yeading. That doesn’t involve a trip to Hayes or even Yeading on the … Continue reading
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Junior I can only assume that Mr King was no football fan. Personally I am against hope. It is brutal, cruel and there to barbed wire-coat every … Continue reading
Ingredients 2 tbsp not interested in football at all guests 200g away games (finely sieved) 3 tsp ill-fated and ill-informed Grand National investments 1.5tsp bicarbonate of pessimism Twitter to taste Guinness cake recipe and necessary items for cooking thereof San … Continue reading
Plural noun Notional privileges that are gained by defeating a close rival. OR What you earn when the person you live with, whom you begged not to bet on their football team to beat yours, as that would be profiting … Continue reading
You can’t say Arthur Miller wasn’t on the money when he called one of his plays Death of a Salesman. It does exactly what it says on the tin. By the end, Willy Loman, our tragic, disillusioned and delusional hero … Continue reading
