May 4, 2020 | Family Matters
Who do you think you are? As a question, it can have negative connotations and is usually asked of those considered “bolshie” or with plenty to say for themselves… which might explain why I seem to have heard it rather a lot. But it can also be a...
Mar 29, 2020 | Football Writing
If a week is a long time in politics, it must be a veritable era in non-league football, so dizzying have the events of the last seven days been. On Monday, I predicted the season would be brought to a close, because of the Coronavirus pandemic. I was right about...
Mar 23, 2020 | Football Writing
We live in extraordinary times, with Coronavirus paralysing the world. Many people look to football to provide a distraction from the daily grind, but the beautiful game has, like everything else, been halted by the unprecedented pandemic. There’s been no senior...
Feb 27, 2020 | Football Writing
The article below appeared in The Walloper, the Prescot Cables FC programme, for Cables’ match against City of Liverpool on 22nd February 2020. Football at our level of the game is changing once again this summer, with the addition of an eighth division at Step...
Feb 27, 2020 | The Main Blog
My local station, Kirkby, is an unremarkable one in many ways but is possibly unique in being a Terminus for both the most reliable train operator in the country and the least. If you board a train from Platform 1, you’ll be on a Merseyrail service to Liverpool...
