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...
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...
Nov 21, 2021 | Football Writing
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.” Those are the words of 15th Century historian Thomas Fuller but they remain as prescient today as they did when he first published them in 1650. Modern wisdom applies them as a reminder that,...
Nov 21, 2021 | Football Writing
The journalist Tim Vickery, who is an expert on South American football, regularly defines the role of a Head Coach or Manager as being broken down into three main tasks; “He selects the team, prepares the strategy – and he also sets the emotional tone for the...
