The new Premier League season started this weekend, incase you hadn’t heard, and everyone thought it would start in frenetic fashion with predictable about it. However, so far it seems like many things are staying the same despite 9 of the 20 teams starting with new managers, including newly promoted Ipswich Town. Manchester City mayContinue reading “New But Still The Same”
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The Progress We’ve Made
Ten years ago England were dumped out of Euro 2016 by Iceland in the round of 16, having finished 2nd in the Group behind, of all teams, Wales… the only team we beat all tournament This was off the back of finishing bottom of our group at the 2014 World Cup without winning a game,Continue reading “The Progress We’ve Made”
The Best Team Possible
There are many considerations that go into selecting a World Cup squad and for any manager looking to take a serious shot at winning it the bottom of that list, buried deep in the centre of the earth, should be the name recognition of the players with the general public, closely followed by the pressContinue reading “The Best Team Possible”
It’s Them Again!
I promise that I am getting on with writing about God’s Toilet, seriously I am!, but just as I was making progress with that blog and sorting out the technical difficulties I’ve been having with it well…. It’s them again… Unless you have been living under a rock in 2026 you know exactly who theyContinue reading “It’s Them Again!”
It’s The Hope That Kills You
So I did go to Brentford’s match on Saturday evening and I will get to writing about the game in God’s toilet, which is how a fellow Yorkshire Man described Leeds to me on Saturday afternoon but first, I said that I would be back to bask in some more Spurs schadenfreude once they lostContinue reading “It’s The Hope That Kills You”
The Poisoned Chalice
I would like to formally apologise to Thomas Frank for putting the commentators curse on him. In my last blog I said that my next blog would be a commentary on how his time at spurs was going… That blog was published on February 10th 2026 and it seems to have scared the big-wigs atContinue reading “The Poisoned Chalice”
Keith’s Brentford Bonanza
Hello again, it’s been a while. Whilst I was busy dealing with life crushing 2025 into 2026 like an avocado being made ready for toast there has at least been one escape from reality I have been able to rely on Brilliant Brentford. At the beginning of the season most pundits were writing Brentford offContinue reading “Keith’s Brentford Bonanza”
Final Questions Answered
So this weekend the 2024/25 EFL season was slammed shut and up and down the country fans found out the final fate of the team they love and in some cases live for. For many of those fans they already knew which league their team would be playing in next season, but for the luckyContinue reading “Final Questions Answered”
The Pursuit of 111
Many of the matters across the EFL have been settled with baring miracles in League Two, only relegation from the Championship an open question on the final day. In the second division of the EFL there is at least something for the Blues to play for on their final day trip down to The AbbeyContinue reading “The Pursuit of 111”
What The Walsall??
Football in the West Midlands has been on fire this season. Aston Villa have made it to the Champions League Quarter-Finals and beat Southampton 3-0 this weekend despite failing to score 2 penalties. West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City stand at 6th and 7th in the Championship, with the formers incredible goal difference and theContinue reading “What The Walsall??”
The Football tourist 