“From Street Urchin to Gold Medal: A Barrow Boy’s Story”   Michael Rolls (Picador, 1966)   Dominic Nozahic (@domnozahic)   The best books, I find, are ones that provoke you to dig deeper.  The great thing about great books is that not only will the surface level reading entice you and hold you in its spell, but it also compels you to look further.  Every sentence is re-contextualised by the sentence that follows it, offering...

Tom (@tom_mcghee) Something about football, lazy joke, Optimus Prime reference, obscure Mos Eisley reference, peas and carrots peas and carrots   My preview (if poss, no computer here innit) Lemon Cristal ***** Moonshine ***** Tangerine Dream *** Super Polm **** Lemon Haze Iso *****   Weed reviews go first, stupid data package f*cking it up in the running order don’t add this bit you chinless goon . .   Benno (@Benglorious) Today is the biggest...

Buying a rake.

Thought for the day: Better to have loved once, than to never have loved at all.

Tim Sherwood walked into the dressing room. Louis van Gaal’s reign had been a disaster, with United failing to make the Champions League, or even the Europa League. There had been an outcry among the papers, and, in their infinite wisdom, Ed Woodward and the Glazer family had decided a domestic manager was the best option. Sherwood’s run at Aston Villa at the end of the 2014/15 season had been as successful as Van Gaal’s had been a disaster....

Benno (@Benglorious) It’s finally matchday again after what felt like a six month international break.  In reality it was only three months, but away goals count double.  Aston Villa are the visitors to Old Trafford today, and they have a different manager from when we last played them.  Tim of Sherwood may have left his outlaw days behind him, but he still brings to the table the same determination and passion that helped him stand up...

Multiversity is an ongoing DC comics series written by Grant Morrison. Every month sees a story in a different version of the DC universe (eg kids of the well-known heroes who have nothing to do because their parents created a utopia where the bad guys can never win) loosely tied around a seemingly haunted comic book. Footballiversity and the various numbered Footballiverses are a shameless rip-off of the comics device (found elsewhere too, of course)...

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Liverpool Rob (I didn’t know the Spanish had a thing for collecting stamps. It was an intriguing match where both teams struggled to create good scoring opportunities, both worked hard to find space and to close it down. Boring to a neutral, frustrating to a fan. I’m going to state the obvious here, for the first 30 mins we didn’t know how to mount an attack or even really get hold of the ball to...

You have to feel for Rooney. Probably. On the very same day that video of him getting knocked out by Phil Bardsley is leaked on to the internet, he scores a goal in front of a packed Old Trafford, and is instantly confronted by a ghost, who offers him out, and knocks him out again! What are the chances?! FFS WHERE IS THE MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB I KNOW AND LOVE? I’M NOT SURE VANGLE...