Into the final furlong
The pundits and hacks were still dissecting the Joey Barton incidents in the Brighton game. The words ‘past misdemeanours’ kept re-appearing. Anyone else and the two flare-ups would have been…
A Great Britton
We’d been in Kent for the week and drove home on the day of the Brighton game hoping to get back in time to watch at least the second half…
Of wheelbarrows and earthquakes
There’s a team in the land of the weavers, their colours are claret and blue. They’re a team of renown, the pride of the town, and their football so clean…
Who will crack first?
Sunday after the Blackburn game was spent looking at the league table, not quite all day, but more than usual, then watching the game again, and then writing up the…
Mine’s a double please Sean
A Leap Year and an extra day at the end of the month of February; an extra day to look at the league table and think hey that looks OK,…
A game changing autobiog
Must admit I was wondering if and when Joey B would get a book into print. So now we know, No Nonsense is coming later this year. Simon and Schuster…
Nowt new in football is there?
Did you see that huge fuss there was about the Messi/Suarez penalty routine when Messi slipped the ball sideways so that Suarez could run onto it and score. You’d have…
Pitch Perfect
After all the rain on the day of the Hull game, rain that clattered down all morning and then all through the game and into the evening, I still couldn’t…
Was it Bury or Burnley in disguise?
I got hold of another footie book the other week; ‘The Forgotten Fifteen’ by James Bentley, the story of Bury’s promotion in 1984/85 with just 15 players from the old…
Now it’s goodbye Frank Teasdale
Monday was last day of the Transfer Window and we watched in anticipation; Tuesday was away at Sheffield Wednesday and Saturday home to Hull City. These are the weeks when…