Another Three Years Of “Match Of The Day”
The news that the BBC has secured a further three years of Premier League highlights makes for a potentially intriguing situation. In August 2014, a year after their next contract...
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Scenes From Football History – 1982/83: How Fulham Blew It
From the mid-1960s on, football grew massively as a passive spectator sport. The realisation that football could evolve as a spectator sport for people that weren’t even at the match...
Evans Above (Or Perhaps Below)
The announcement of the death of David Evans last week will send many people of a certain age on a trip down memory lane. Evans was the Conservative MP for...
Trying To Get Inside The Mind Of The Football League
Back in the day, struggling Fourth Division clubs had to regularly undergo the annual ordeal of re-election, in which the bottom four clubs in the table along with any non-league...
Just In Case You Thought That They Actually Cared…
“All animals are created equal”, wrote George Orwell, “but some animals are more equal than others”. The images of “Animal Farm” are easily invoked when considering the running of football...
Mad As A Hatter
Just two and a half years ago, Luton Town were playing for a place in the Premier League. Just outside the play-off places and having given Liverpool an almighty scare...
Hatters Off
There is almost certainly a book to be written about the recent travails of Luton Town, which took yet another turn for the strange when they held Liverpool to a...