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Dentures, Dogging and a dancing Nun
Aug. 17 | How many people can honestly say they have seen football history being made in the flesh? It is amazing to think just how many people today in their 60’s were at Wembley on the 30th July 1966 when England won the Jules Rimet trophy considering...
Musen der brølede (The mouse that roared)
Aug. 12 | For hundreds of small football clubs across Europe this week sees the start of their cup adventures. A win at this stage in some of the smaller countries and they may get lucky and draw one of the big boys, whilst in England it will be a few more rounds...
Y bêl yn rownd
Jul. 31 | It’s not all beaches, ice cream and lava bread down here in Wales you know. Part of my work for the week is to look at the state of Welsh football, quoted a month ago by Neville Southall as “in the last chance saloon” and obviously...
Down by the Jetty
Jul. 25 | Some 30 miles from the centre of London in an easterly direction you will find Vange Creek which separates mainland Essex to the alluvial island known as Canvey Island. Formed from silt in the Holocene period on a bed of old red sandstone the island actually...
Boldklub and Hedges
Jul. 19 | Danish football is back….what I hear you say, you didn’t know it had gone? Well it had been asleep for two months whilst that little tournament took place in South Africa. The Danes had gone into that tournament like a bloke on a first date...
The quickest penalty of all time?
Jul. 6 | The 18 May 1946 is not a day that many will remember as being well known for anything. If you are old enough to remember, then President Truman gave a televised speech announcing the end of the railroad strike in America and that is probably it, unless...
Fancy a cheeky weekend away?
Jun. 16 | One of the greatest joys in life is a European Football Weekends. We love them so much that Danny even named his site after them. What could be better than sitting in a foreign football stadium, watching some crap football with a bottle of ”Plop”...
England’s finest export
Jun. 13 | Question: Who is the most successful English player currently playing abroad based on trophies won? Most people would undoubtably plump for Mr Beckham at this point but they would be wrong. Leytonstone’s finest has only won the La Liga title since...
When the WAG strikes back
May. 4 | Two days before the never forgotten reign of Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister nobody voted for who has overseen the massive increase in our crippling debt that would make Greece’s look like pocket money, I was sitting by a swimming pool with a beer...
