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...
Nov 21, 2021 | Family Matters
A year ago today, our beautiful third child, Josie Jean, was born sleeping at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. I wrote about her short, tumultuous journey in this space a few days after the event. Today, I want to mark her first heavenly birthday by writing about her. You...
Nov 21, 2021 | Football Writing
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? The challenge for anyone who writes a regular column in any publication is to try and avoid making yourself look too stupid, especially when talking about a football match that hasn’t happened yet. For the Mossley...
