Tag Archive | football
Brazilian football, jumpers for goalposts, and gambling
Playing football filled in a large part of our school holiday days as kids which is rather ironic these days given that I can’t stand the game, on the other hand the game of football int he 1960s is a million light years away from the game of nancyfootball in these softer times. As a [...]
My Ecellence on the Field of Sporting Valour
So its established as fact that I am, and never was, what could be called “sporting”, I do not partake in sports, I never have partook in sports, I must have been a huge disappointment to my father who partook in every sport known to man when he was nobbut a lad and would proudly [...]
Football Image Rights and Southampton Football Club
Sometimes you read a news story that just makes you smile and think “Bloody brilliant, I wish I’d thought of that” This is such a story Its the story of a football club who seem to have forgotten who pays their bills in favour of extracting as much money as possible from every revenue source, [...]
Second week of the school summer holidays
… by now we will have fallen into an easy but regular routine. This is the 1960s and while I’m sure burglars existed in the 1960s they didn’t seem to exist in our far-flung suburb for if they had then they would have found plenty of employment (although what exactly they would have found worth [...]
Football on a cricket pitch
Its difficult to describe how to play football on a cricket pitch, but we managed to do it, year after year, school holiday after school holiday. Of course the cricketers weren’t very pleased but we used their pitch while they were at work and we were on our school holidays so although they suspected that [...]
Peter Lorimer and his unfeasible goal
There is a TV advert on British TV at the moment which shows a group of kids playing football in a park, their ball gets kicked towards an old man who is out walking his dog and the kids ask him to kick it back to them, he does so and scores a goal with [...]
Football and its link to Lonrho
Its very easy to upset them isn’t it ? Football supporters. All you do is mention this blog on another internet forum that has nothing whatsoever to do with football and they rant and rave like children trying to get out of a playpen in which there is a big spider – biggest number of [...]
Football – its for girls.
Football, soccer, nancyball – its for girls. Tonight two English Premier League teams will contend for the European Champions League title in Moscow, I am reliably informed that these two teams will be Chelsea and Manchester Utd, how they chose these two for the final I know not for I have a zero interest in [...]
