Mar 27, 2022 | The Main Blog
There’s so much great football writing now that no reader, however voracious, can possibly read – or even know about – everything that’s out there. So it was with this week’s Reading The Game review. I won a copy of Forgotten Nations by Chris Deeley in a...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
After the late fireworks of last Saturday’s win over Kendal Town, we now know that the spectre of automatic relegation has been banished. That means today’s match against promotion-chasing Workington is important as Cables aim to escape the bottom three completely or,...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
It feels a bit odd to be saying so before St Patrick’s Day, but this season has reached what Sir Alex Ferguson called ‘squeaky bum time’. In fact, for our visitors this afternoon, this is quite literally a must-win game. The maths is simple; Kendal Town arrive at the...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
Regular readers of this column will be aware that I am, to put it bluntly, a massive nerd. As such, I take an interest in the history of football and of the club, particularly on the statistical side. When Jed Ward joined recently from Bristol Rovers, I started to...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
On Thursday lunchtime, Northern League club Billingham Synthonia tweeted out a statement that indicated that they needed to raise £10,000 in order to see out this season after the sponsor / benefactor who had been funding the club walked away. Like us here at Cables,...
