Sep 11, 2021 | Football Writing
I know it’s early in the season to describe any fixture as a “big game”, but that’s precisely what this afternoon’s match is. There is no tournament quite like The FA Cup. No football competition is older; the FA Cup was established 150 years ago last month. None...
Jul 26, 2020 | Football Writing
This article originally appeared in the Prescot Cables v Skelmersdale United Programme, 22nd April 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...
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...
