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Or, perhaps a rant within ‘not a rant’… In the pub, at half-time that other Tuesday, I returned to my seat after a visit to the bar to find that three twenty-somethings had materialised. I hadn’t gone out of my way to notice them, it’s just that in a relatively large room with literally no-one else in it, they had decided […]

I was always going to get behind Antonio Valencia, as the prerequisite for most of my more intense player-crushes tends to be born out of empathy. Tony arrived as the underdog, coming into a team to play the role of punching bag for the fans, as their malcontent with a team recently stripped of two of it’s most […]

We are very proud to present our collaboration with our good Twitter friend Liz Worsley, of the excellent My Sport Toons …

If I were to make New Year’s resolutions, this year mine would be to watch less football, or – more specifically, to no longer watch Sky Sports.* *It would have suited the narrative flow of this post to have started the previous sentence with ‘My New Year’s resolution is to watch less football”, a slight alteration in the construction of […]

Action begets reaction, which begets action, which begets reaction, and once a situation develops, the effects can be far reaching – in some cases resulting in an impasse. I’ve written about Fergie’s “public telling off” of Danny for “showing off a bit” before (with regards to it’s impact on Danny), but on further reflection, a […]

A short animation of the boy with secret magical powers.

You haven’t seen this film, right?

This post was written with grateful contributions from Laura Bates of the Everyday Sexism Project. The project exists ‘to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis’. Laura’s contributions are italicised. A little while back, I was watching a conversation unfold on Twitter between two relatively respected football bloggers.  The […]

This is a remake of a comic-strip post from pre-season, celebrating our Tony (and not Nani) becoming a member of the No.7 club. (Really didn’t mean it to contain a swear. I’d deleted all the files, so couldn’t re-edit, before I’d even realised there was one in it.)  

At Bifurcated we absolutely love Berba. Here’s our goodbye to him in the form of a kind of animated short film…  

I don’t watch much football *SHOCK – HORROR – ORF WITH MY OWN HEAD*, so when I found myself on holiday in Spain, in a Spanish bar, with El Clasico about to start, I didn’t really know what to do with myself. To say my eyes were glued to the small telly in the corner would over romanticize the […]