It’s 6:30pm, Sunday 24th November. My beloved Manchester United have just drawn away to newly promoted Ipswich Town, and yet my blood...

Some time has passed now and I am starting to recover from a traumatic incident. It was a sunny October afternoon, and I was sitting in a...

‘Fuck it’, I said to myself; ‘I’ll get a pie too’. There’s something about being on the concourse when the game is on. Fear, mostly. I’ve...

‘It’s just a number’, said the maddest man on the team. A moment lays clear in my mind during my years of underage football. At the time...

Much like George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway and John Aldridge, I have left home and moved to Spain. A country, when growing up, I...

I’m at a time in my life where the likes of Spotify and Apple Music are no longer a phenomenon, whilst being old enough to remember -

It was 1994, Oasis had just released their debut album and were quickly becoming one of the biggest bands in the world..

Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, 2018. If I remember correctly it was released at midnight. That’s a showbiz release time isn’t it? Who...

“Are Ireland fans only the best fans in the world when there’s a major tournament and it’s popular to get behind the team, or is Twitter...

Ross Barkley signed for Villa the other day and there was nearly a collective sigh of relief from supporters all over that nobody knew...

As my footballing knowledge expanded so did my ability to enjoy watching other players play. I enjoyed collecting rarer football shirts than

Four months ago Noel Gallagher threw out a tweet that he had come across some Oasis material that he thought was lost. In such a time as...

August 2004. Football was just reeling from a shock Greece Euro 2004 triumph against Portugal on Portuguese soil. The Streets – Dry Your...

We’ve done it again. How, I do not know. Boom. There’s your hangover. The creaking sunlight of the afternoon sun pierced the blinds

The week before lockdown I started my first one of these. It overlapped with watching a Tottenham match and the running joke throughout...

I went into work that morning genuinely barely thinking about it. Reports from the day before were widespread that Ferguson was to announce

Bayern Munich. Borussia Dortmund. Hoffenheim. Schalke 04. The Bundesliga. That Community Shield they give out for winning it. Them big...

Lanzarote FC. Croatia. Schalke 04. Wicklow GAA. Where else can these four giants of the jersey game find each other rubbing shoulders...

Alex Turner. A cool baby. I love the cut of his jib. 'Tracky bottoms tucked in socks' in A Certain Romance to 'leather jacket collar popped

The sun began to set nicely on Bordeaux City Centre. The orange hue of the nights sky reflecting nicely on the sea of green that spread...