by Karl Coppack | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack YOU can’t beat the summer. Driving round with the windows open, wearing shorts that would put Tony Soprano to shame and enjoying a light breeze coming off the sea with a Cornetto within easy reach. After months of overcast drudgery, of sleeting rain...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 19, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack WHEN Guy Mowbray mentioned the Ray Kennedy goal in the 1981 League Cup semi at Man City recently he became a bit muddled, his mind caught between expressing a point and wrapping up the night’s events and inadvertently referred to him as...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack If you look hard enough there’s a positive in everything. I left the Arsenal game angered, disappointed, frustrated and sickened but as the vinegar of the sheer injustice washed over me I realised that I wouldn’t have to hear Clive Tyldesley...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack ‘Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man’ – Travis Bickle 1976 saw the longest drought in decades, a ladybird invasion and the peak of the...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘Oh, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’ – The Dude RECENTLY I was talking to a few mates about the rise and demise of LFC over the past few years. We discussed how it’s possible for us to go from dicking both Man United and Madrid in...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 4, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack I can remember a golden age. An age when a press report of a match described the conditions, the goals, the teams and then the attendance and the half time score. Then technology moved on apace and pundits were introduced onto footy programmes to add...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 11, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack Well, there it is. From thieves and dole scroungers to murderers to murderers of our own to racists. How long before charges of paedophilia for the full set? Oh, we hit women now too. The Suarez debate has stopped being just that – a debate. A...
by Karl Coppack | Dec 29, 2011 | Footie
by Karl Coppack After the QPR game a few weeks ago a few of us headed into town and found ourselves in Slaters.Nothing too macabre about that as it’s an ideal venue for getting a round in for under a tenner for six of us but what struck me was the transformation...
by Karl Coppack | Dec 1, 2011 | Footie
by Karl Coppack THE unwelcome draw for the League Cup brought us back to Stamford Bridge ahead of places like Cardiff and a very tricky potential home tie against Crystal Palace. Good job we dodged that one. Since the opening day of the 2003 season we have...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 4, 2011 | Footie
By Karl Coppack THE WBA game highlighted some interesting issues regarding our ex-manager, their current one. The press kept mercifully quiet about him for once, odd given that he bloodied our nose there last season, and went back to smearing Luis Suarez”s...
