JUST GET ON WITH IT!

Tunnel cameras, handshakes and theme tunes -PAUL CANTWELL has had enough of the pre-match palaver and is thankful for Sky Plus......

NOT SINGING ANY MORE?

NEIL SCOTT wonders why so few have cracked it when it comes to fusing togger and tunes into a successful partnership...

GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66

No, not that one. MICHAEL MOWBRAY had a jumping out of the bath experience that led to him attending more than...

CONFESSIONS OF A SOCCER SPURLOCK…

CHRIS SHAW binges on televised football for a weekend and rediscovers a love of neutral viewing IDOUBT there is anyone reading...

HESKEY REVISITED

JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you heard...

STRIPPED BACK

Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent times...

TACKLING BIRTHDAYS

Rubbish football cards... they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any more...

POPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY

‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that I...

THE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS

CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom at...

PRESS-ING MATTERS

DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their subjects...

PLAYING KETCHUP

LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric recruitment...

THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES

They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to explain......

IT’S BIN A LONG TIME

JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. ONLY...

BEWARE SNOW, FLOOODS AND TYRANTS

CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the perils of the weather – and other less obvious influences on whether a match gets played...

THE MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE

ALISTAIR MCLAUCHLAN, a Scot living in Ecuador, wonders who’s got it best when it comes to watching football Atahualpa Stadium EVERY...

BRITS, BRIAN, BIG BALLS AND BENFICA

STEVEN GREEN remembers when Portugal chopped Souey Graeme Souness at Benfica THERE are certain periods in every club’s history that are...

THE CUP DOESN’T MEAN F.A. TO ME’

GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS says you can’t beat The FA Cup third-round draw I’d just watched a decent second-round tie on...

GETTING SHIRTY ABOUT RACISM

STEPHEN TUDOR reckons it’s up to fans to keep the focus on the real issues in our game Rio warming up...

WHO,S BETTER? WHO,S BEST? WHO CARES?

PAUL WILKES reckons the continual clamour to separate Messi and Ronaldo is pointless Ronaldo FOR ONCE it seemed as though he...

CRYING FOWL

Since chicken farmers Venky’s took control, it’s been a clucking mess at Ewood Park. But TIM ALDRED says there’s still time...

Soccer AM MAKE IT STOP!

LUKE CONSTABLE reckons it’s time to blow the whistle on Sky’s Saturday morning cringeworthy lad-fest ALLOW me to confess: I will...

Soccer AM THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE…

JAMIE WHITEHEAD offers some words of support for the much-maligned Soccer AM SKY. It’s the one word that divides opinion in...

BANANA SHOTS THUNDERBOLTS AND CURLERS

CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the masters of the free-kick through the years, their techniques and their staggering strike rates WHAT makes...

FOOTBALL’S ANSWER TO MONEYBALL

DECLAN OLLEY looks at Porto’s remarkable knack of winning trophies and beating the transfer system MICHAEL LEWIS’ Moneyball has been an...

CARRICK, GHOST OF SEASON,S PAST

STEPHEN TUDOR says Michael Carrick personifies what has gone wrong with English football ANDREA PIRLO bewitched the watching continent with a...

JONAS IS ALL WRITE BY ME

Football writing ain't what it used to be – and the attitude towards an unsung hero sums it all up for...

WHY MIND GAMES ARE A NO BRAINER

PAUL CANTWELL disputes the media-fuelled concept that Alex Ferguson has mysterious mental powers Sir Alex Ferguson ‘And now for my next...

SCHTOP, SCHTEVE!

THIS COUNTRY, WE, RE NOT READY YET! KEITH MENARY wasn’t pleased to see the ‘wally with the brolly’ back on our...

FOOTBALL…  IT IS FOR GIRLS!

Female faces are more common than ever before at the match – but there’s still a way to go says HELEN...

THUMB THING WE RELIED ON

CEEFAX 302-SATURDAY 3PM Ceefax – the staple source of information for many a football fan’s thumb – has broadcast its last...