Jul 26, 2020 | Football Writing
This article originally appeared in the Prescot Cables v Radcliffe Programme, 26th January 2019. I’m republishing it now (July 2020) as the English Schools’ FA has effectively barred seven schools from nominating players to a local District Schools’...
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...
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...
