Gig of the Week 31/8
IF you're sick to the back tooth of tiresome covers bands clogging the city and could throttle the next hairy git to murder "Paperback Writer" then there is an antidote. First up tonight Best Coast play at Mojo and tickets are still available. After a weekend of...
This week in 1974
Libya was in the news along with its leader Muammar Gaddafi as he presided over a parade of Soviet military hardware in Tripoli. The show, including 200 new tanks, was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of the coup that had given Gadaffi his power. In football it...
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography of Joe Fagan
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography By Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt ‘When you are in the football business there are only two ways to go and you are better to be a hero than a villain . . . Joe was definitely a hero.’ Kenny Dalglish ‘No disrespect to...
Where do Arsenal go from here?
FOR all the misgivings Arsenal fans have felt crowding in on them in recent seasons, for all the warning signs over a summer in which the club have managed to gain new, wealthy ownership and yet lose key players, few can have imagined it would come to this. Their...
THE GREAT NET SPEND ROPE TRICK (AND MORE MONEYBALLS)
BACK in the dark days, when a Texan tyrant roamed free in the 2nd city of Empire, debt was the new black, and Liverpool football club was hurtling towards a never imagined abyss, its chief financier and ultimate unlikely knight in shining armour, the Royal Bank of...
Gig of the Week 31/8
IF you're sick to the back tooth of tiresome covers bands clogging the city and could throttle the next hairy git to murder "Paperback Writer" then there is an antidote. First up tonight Best Coast play at Mojo and tickets are still available. After a weekend of...
This week in 1974
Libya was in the news along with its leader Muammar Gaddafi as he presided over a parade of Soviet military hardware in Tripoli. The show, including 200 new tanks, was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of the coup that had given Gadaffi his power. In football it...
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography of Joe Fagan
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography By Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt ‘When you are in the football business there are only two ways to go and you are better to be a hero than a villain . . . Joe was definitely a hero.’ Kenny Dalglish ‘No disrespect to...
Where do Arsenal go from here?
FOR all the misgivings Arsenal fans have felt crowding in on them in recent seasons, for all the warning signs over a summer in which the club have managed to gain new, wealthy ownership and yet lose key players, few can have imagined it would come to this. Their...
THE GREAT NET SPEND ROPE TRICK (AND MORE MONEYBALLS)
BACK in the dark days, when a Texan tyrant roamed free in the 2nd city of Empire, debt was the new black, and Liverpool football club was hurtling towards a never imagined abyss, its chief financier and ultimate unlikely knight in shining armour, the Royal Bank of...