Teams who rely on their home support are struggling this year. Millwall are many things, but one thing that is indisputable about the Lions is that they use the Den to their advantage; the baying of their supporters to push them over the line where they may otherwise struggle. This...
Players like Aaron Mooy shouldn’t be at teams like Huddersfield. It was a lazy statement we heard often while he was with the Terriers, and while it was nonsense for a long time, it ended up being true. After a deal that was spun as a financial masterstroke by Manchester...
Not so very long ago, Marine and Tottenham Hotspur would have seemed impossible to relate to one another; the two clubs existed in two completely different spheres and seemed unlikely to ever meet. Yet, in the dark recesses of my past, in a village just outside Huddersfield, I had always...
We are coming to that time of year again, winter is here and soon we will see Europe’s leagues stop to allow their players a rest in the cruellest of the season’s weather. Of course, what will actually happen is a series of high profile friendlies in far-flung parts of...
Gazprom, BeIn Sports, PPTV, InFront Sports, Al-Jazeera… all these names have worked their way into European football over the last decade and all look set to have even more influence as time progresses. UEFA have, since their foundation, been at the head of the most lucrative area of world football....
There is something glamorous about the names of certain football grounds that give an air of mystery if you haven’t visited them. Shrewsbury Town’s Gay Meadow and Darlington’s Feethams may be gone, but you can still visit Priestfield in Gillingham, Molineux in Wolverhampton or a venue I know well, Oakwell...
The industrial North of England is no longer the same as George Orwell covered in his celebrated The Road to Wigan Pier but if you were to make your way there from the French Riviera, you would definitely find a culture and a temperature that was unsettling and unfamiliar.
The sign of a good book, or a good film, is that it changes you in some way. I’ve seen films that made me want to do things with my life, read books that have made me do others, maybe not what was intended, but that’s the nature of art...
In the years that followed the First World War, British high society was a peculiar and easily lampooned place. The works of PG Wodehouse demonstrate that well, but Evelyn Waugh produced no less preposterousness. Unlike Wodehouse, Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw him...
Sometimes you get used to people being part of the landscape, their presence is a constant, immutable and irreversible. Sport gives that illusion from time to time, only for time itself to enjoy the last laugh. The outpouring of sadness that greets footballers leaving the stage for the last time...