Football
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We’re Bolton and we’re barmy and we’re on the piss tonight. A short jaunt up the road for this FA Cup fourth round tie is a good opportunity to see how bleak things can get awfully quickly even for teams who look like Premier League fixtures. Bolton Wanderers, and especially their chairman Phil Gartside, were…
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What promised to be a feast of football between sides managed by two of the most progressive managers in the Premier League actually ended up something of a bore. Michael Laudrup’s Swansea City didn’t exactly come and park the bus at Goodison Park; it was more as if they drove it slowly and deliberately around…
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Imagine a few years ago some Geordies sitting watching Shola Ameobi being generally cack and turning to his mates and saying, ‘One day he’ll be partnered up front by his younger, shitter brother’. He’d be laughed all the way to the Strawberry. Seriously, it would be like us giving a dream Premier League start to…
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Come on, it’s that boss bit between Christmas and New Year when you would rather be watching World’s Strongest Man or feature-length Futurama’s than going online to read about football. Therefore the Wigan match report and the Chelsea preview are being condensed here. 1. Darron Gibson’s red card picked up against West Ham has been…

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