May 2, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
So, a season’s work comes down to this. A local derby. A Cup tie against a local rival who have recorded their best-ever Step 4 season to reach this point. Horrible, isn’t it? It is, of course, the best kind of ‘horrible’. As stomach-churning as the pre-match nerves...
Apr 21, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
Tuesday’s Liverpool Senior Cup tie against Marine might have seen Prescot Cables bow out of the tournament, but the fantastic attendance of 1,051 will have been as morale-boosting for the club as the valiant performance from a patched-up team. The midweek match was...
Apr 7, 2024 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
In February, I wrote about the rash of clubs which had withdrawn from non-League football over the course of this season. In that piece, I observed that “I’ve never known so many clubs to be struggling so publicly as is the case right now”. Just before Easter, two...
Mar 25, 2024 | The Main Blog
I wrote the piece below at about 4:30am one morning in October 2023, with no plans to do anything with it. I was ‘venting’ and trying to regulate my emotions whilst staying awake. But then my wife and I met with our son’s Social Worker and SENCO; I...
Mar 3, 2024 | The Main Blog
I’m currently in the second year of a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing with the Open University. In addition to helping writers working in several genres to hone their craft, the course has a section called ‘Writer in the World, which is designed to encourage...
