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...
Nov 19, 2019 | Football Writing
I thought I had put together my final programme for Prescot Cables. However, a late, late equaliser at the Millbank Linnets Stadium denied the Pesky Bulls a win in their Buildbase FA Trophy tie at Runcorn Linnets. This meant that a programme would be required at short...
Oct 30, 2019 | Football Writing
The first issue of The Walloper for a month has also turned out to be my last as the Editor, as I tendered my resignation the morning after the rearranged match was played. Putting it together was a slog; apart from the (mandatory) contributions from the opposition...
