United vs. City
FBA-Nominated football blog writer Benno (@Benglorious) It’s Derby time again! That special match that only comes round three, sometimes four or five but no less than two, times a year unless it only happens once. The winners get to make Manchester either red or blue in a tradition that stretches back all the way to the […]
Euro 2016: Week Uno Reviewo!!
BifEUROcated Week Uno Review!!!* *That’s funny cos the middle bit where it says ‘Week Uno’ is in white, so you can’t see what it says. What it says, I guess we’ll never know. This isn’t just a lazy/crass cut and paste of our “best” Twitter bits… It is. Bite us. “I despaired when Brett, who […]
City vs. United
Benno (@Benglorious) Writing your preview second usually means something has gone very, horribly wrong with the time/space continuum. That, or those pricks are just trying to show you up. Or you’re on holiday with very little free time to write what with all the sunbathing and drinking. The time/space continuum is probably the right answer. We’ll […]
United vs City
Ben (Benglorious): For starters, why are they called ‘City’? They don’t have a cathedral as far as I can remember, just a stadium that nobody can spell the name of. Regardless of their glaring misnomer, they’re still a team to fear: literally banging in more goals than West Ham and with far fewer defensive […]
City vs United
We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lenhert, to share some of their ‘Pre and Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing punctuation buffets below their proper good ones… Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Hands up if you’re also approaching this derby with […]
No more curses, crying and a carrying on (for now)
The 1990 World Cup: a significant tournament in the bookmarking of some of England’s enduring imagery. Penalties, tears and John Barnes rap aside, one incident inparticular, during the semi-final against Germany, has, I think, been the one to have cast the darkest and spindliest of shadows over subsequent national players. But, oh how we larfed, until we […]