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,...
Mar 25, 2022 | The Main Blog
This week’s instalment of Reading the Game is The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin. If you’ve been following the series, you’ll have already noticed that The Accidental Footballer is a bit of an outlier because it’s an autobiography, which isn’t the kind of football...
Mar 18, 2022 | The Main Blog
If there’s any sort of theme to the books I’ve reviewed in the Reading the Game, it’s that I look for the stories that don’t necessarily make the headlines. Even where I’ve chosen to read about a ‘big’ club, I’ve been much more likely to either avoid the ‘super clubs’...
