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There He Went. Here He Comes. Again.

There He Went. Here He Comes. Again.

GENIUS. Just a word on a page. Yet it somehow seems symbolic for a man who did just that; wrote words on a page. Tortured. Shambolic. Obsessed. Reclusive. Melancholic. Disappointing. These are other words on my page. All of them and many more besides can be used to...

Ban footballers from Twitter? Shake my head…

MICK McCarthy has joined Ferguson and the FA in warning players about the supposed dangers of Twitter. Ken Bates has banned it. And every now and again - after some mini-controversy - people say footballers will have to be taken off the social-networking site by their...

Blowing away the pre-season blues

I DON'T sleep much in this weather unless I wear ear plugs. See, I live away from home through the week. Well, I say 'live' - I have a box I climb into in London. And it's not bad, my little box. I have a telly, and I have a few gadgets, and some wireless broadband....

The International interruption

SEASON starts. Season stops. Another international friendly clogging up our early campaign, a continental pre-season. A yearly complaint, and this time Kenny got out of the traps first – an utterly justified gripe (as much about the Saturday start as the existence...

22 years on…

IT'S now over 22 years since that sunny spring day when many made a hopeful trip over the Pennines to Sheffield and far too many never returned. In that time there have been many false hopes and wrong turns in the quest for justice. The despair at the newspaper lies...

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There He Went. Here He Comes. Again.

There He Went. Here He Comes. Again.

GENIUS. Just a word on a page. Yet it somehow seems symbolic for a man who did just that; wrote words on a page. Tortured. Shambolic. Obsessed. Reclusive. Melancholic. Disappointing. These are other words on my page. All of them and many more besides can be used to...

Ban footballers from Twitter? Shake my head…

MICK McCarthy has joined Ferguson and the FA in warning players about the supposed dangers of Twitter. Ken Bates has banned it. And every now and again - after some mini-controversy - people say footballers will have to be taken off the social-networking site by their...

Blowing away the pre-season blues

I DON'T sleep much in this weather unless I wear ear plugs. See, I live away from home through the week. Well, I say 'live' - I have a box I climb into in London. And it's not bad, my little box. I have a telly, and I have a few gadgets, and some wireless broadband....

The International interruption

SEASON starts. Season stops. Another international friendly clogging up our early campaign, a continental pre-season. A yearly complaint, and this time Kenny got out of the traps first – an utterly justified gripe (as much about the Saturday start as the existence...

22 years on…

IT'S now over 22 years since that sunny spring day when many made a hopeful trip over the Pennines to Sheffield and far too many never returned. In that time there have been many false hopes and wrong turns in the quest for justice. The despair at the newspaper lies...