Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
I don’t watch much television, but I listen to a lot of podcasts. This is partly because I’ve always commuted to and from work and/or the football clubs I’ve been part of via public transport and I find bus and train journeys much easier to cope with while wearing...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
Last Saturday’s important victory over Kidsgrove Athletic put me in a pretty good mood but, as happens so often, this beautiful game we’re all mad about was winding me up again pretty quickly. The postponement of the North London Derby on Sunday left me baffled. The...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
In this strange Step 4 season – a campaign in which Cables have both scored and conceded seven goals in League fixtures – Tuesday night saw possibly the most remarkable shellacking of the campaign so far. In the Isthmian League South Central Division, Staines Town’s...
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...
