Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
The challenge with writing a column for a programme being published on New Year’s Day is that you have to work to a pre-Christmas deadline. Rather than take a punt at predicting the future, I started wondering how our predecessors would have coped with Bank Holiday...
Jan 26, 2022 | Football Writing
Here we are again, gathered at the IP Truck Parts Stadium for the proverbial ‘six-pointer’ against Market Drayton Town. I’d fought against using that old cliché on this page, but we’re nearly at the end of a challenging year and the League Table doesn’t lie. A...
Jan 26, 2022 | Football Writing
So, here we are again, with the IP Truck Parts Stadium hosting a derby match between the fourth oldest Senior club in the Liverpool City Region and the youngest. Prescot Cables and City of Liverpool are very different types of football club; Cables are, in many ways a...
Jan 26, 2022 | The Main Blog
When I was younger, I seriously contemplated emigrating. The twentysomething me came very close to packing up and moving to Amsterdam, as a couple of my mates had. An ill-fated promotion at work and my Dad’s ill-health put the idea on the back burner, where it...
Jan 26, 2022 | The Main Blog
Did you have a lockdown project? For me, one of the most worthwhile ways of passing the time whilst on furlough in the spring and summer of 2020 was researching our family’s roots; Steve Menary and James Montague took on a slightly different task… The Away Leg...