Our season preview game show: In A Word!
The following season preview game show In A Word was created before a live studio audience (That is, of course, if you can count Brett’s cat Casey as an audience?), before the signing of *Excited screams* Robin van Persie. AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAH!
What’s eating Wayne Rooney?
The Euros, A.N. Other tournament where Wayne Rooney didn’t perform to a level expected of him, or for that matter anywhere even near it. He may not have had a spacecraft on hand to help him reach the heights of the outer stratosphere – as some might expect – but those sorts of lame excuses […]
Fare Thee Well Sir Michael of Owen
Football has a way of screwing with time. I know this because of one simple fact: I’m older than Michael Owen. Insane isn’t it? How could this have happened? I was only a teenager when he started gleefully rubbing his hands together on my telly. It’s just not right. I didn’t used to like Michael […]
You can stick your whistle up your arse
This article originally appeared in Issue 15 of the Football United Fanzine available to view here To the foot stomping outrage of some fans, there exists statistical evidence which points to the fact that United don’t concede less, or win more penalties at home than other clubs, so we can finally put the myth that refereeing decisions favour the big clubs […]
Too Much, Too Young
I can’t speak for you … well, unless you’d like me too? I mean, this would be a lot easier if we could all just agree, right? No? You’re sure? Okay. Thought not. Good. Great. So, we can all agree to disagree on some things. Great. I mean, it’s not like you have to attend every argument you’re invited to is […]
My Winter of Disconnect
From an objective point of view, this season football has nudged itself ever closer towards a warped manifestation of utopia. It has lunged violently between menacingly good and astonishingly bad, intermittently grotesque and overtly sentimental. Aesthetes of stats and figures, connoisseurs of footy ‘lols’, perpetuaters of intellectual discourse, bastions of good old fashioned tribalism have all been nourished from […]
Mario Balotelli: The 100% Unofficial Interview
The Beeb may have had that fella off of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who’s name escapes us, for their interview with Mario Balotelli, but their big PR love-in was of course paid for out of our pockets!! It goes without saying that Mario Balotelli and Noel Gallagher would have been paid millions of pounds for their time, a significant […]
Danny, the Champignon of the World
Do you like being wrong? I like being wrong. Do you like being wrong? I like being wrong. Love being wrong. Love it. Yeah. It’s great being wrong, isn’t it? Yeah … I like being wrong. Really like being wrong. Really, love being wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Love IT! Yeah, really, REALLY love, love, LOVE being wrong. […]
There was something in the heir … Fernando
If like me you enjoy spending a couple of minutes a week sticking Premier League footballers, or European club names, into Google Translate in an attempt to fill the void in your life created by your lack of sociability, you may have discovered that Torres means ‘Towers’ (one of my personal favourites being Otelul Galati, […]
One Direction
The marketing team behind Professional Goalkeepers Inc. have created an effective viral for their incumbants, which in Lehmann’s terms equates to: A Save = A Goal. Of course the intention isn’t to fool everyone with their speculative propaganda, they are fully aware of their margins, but they know they can take the weak ones, the easily lead and I think it’s our duty […]
Misnomers, Misdemeanors, EPL, O.T: Get Ur Freak On
Oi! Everything! Yeah, you Everything, I’m talking to you … pipe down at the back Something Else and you, Another Thing. Put your hand down, this isn’t an open forum, or ruddy show and tell. Look , Everything just stop happening for a one lousy second … thank you. Okay, now, I was doing this introduction to this post that […]
Eat my An Oak Tree
It was inevitable that at some point in my capacity as A. N. Other Football Blogger I would be drawn into attempting to, in some way, address from my own point of view, an aspect of football’s relationship, or lack there of, with ‘art’. In my civvies away from this site, in what would be considered by some in direct contrast, I own and run […]