Long-term readers of this site may well have been wondering what has been going on around here for the last couple of months or so. Well, it should have been reasonably obvious for the last few months that association football has been wearing me down to the point of exhaustion, so in the slipstream of last summer’s World Cup finals I decided that, if I wished to retain my sanity, I should probably start to focus my attention elsewhere a little, and a subsequent complete collapse of the site at the server end meant that I was suddenly and, I have to say, somewhat unexpectedly given the opportunity to rebuild this place.
I decided in the end to keep the old archive alive. Quite asides from the fact that there was more than eight years worth of work hidden away in there, there was also the small matter of the fact that other people’s material was included in there as well. It didn’t seem fair that other people should lose their work because I’d got into a bit of a huff with football. At this precise moment in time, I don’t know where this will all end. Perhaps people will just drift away and I’ll end up shouting into a wind tunnel. Perhaps the site will slowly drift back towards the game as I start to forget just how objectionable so much of modern football is. Who knows?
More than anything else, though, I really enjoyed writing the material that is on the home page of this site now. I’d stopped enjoying writing about football and nothing else, so this has made a very pleasant change. I hope that you guys enjoy reading it as well. though of course you’re under no obligation to. I’m hoping that, over time, we’ll sort out a rhythm which means that the stories from the old site that were importanyt and needed to be told continue to find their way onto these pages. And I hope that you’ll be here to see it happen. For now, though, I’ve enjoyed sitting at a laptop writing and that, as they say, is a start.
(As an aside, if you wish to contribute to this site, the door is as open as ever, and on a variety of subjects as wide as your imagination. Drop us a line if you’re interested.)
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Glad to see you’re back.
Enjoyed reading your non football pieces ,which showed up on my Feedly even though the site was down,
and I would’t complain if you continued in that way.
Welcome back.
You were one of only 5 soccer sites that I bounced around daily and your writing was always deep and sincere, so yes I will keep a check in.
Props for coming back, this site is/was unique and always offers something thought-provoking to read.
I wondered where you’d disappeared to – really missed the site. As a Blues fan the best was “Peter Pannu is considerably richer than you” – great headline and good articles, so I’m pleased you kept the archive.
And if it’s any comfort I think a lot of us are having problems with getting enjoyment out of modern football, so why shouldn’t we expand our interests elsewhere and give in?
But…but…it’s our game and they slyly manipulated governance while we were all looking the other way (well, I was) so we got upstart (now well established) “owners” telling us how our clubs will be run- we still need to fight for a say in our game and that’s exactly why Two Hundred Per Cent is important to football. Please keep the football side going if you can bear to!