Month: August 2007

Having discovered that my digital camera takes video, I witter on in another of those ego-tripping “films”:

Before the War, Manchester City were the team in the north-west. Here’s an interesting profile of the side, including training scenes shot – to my mind – in the style of Robert Capa: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeKHt5RTSho]

Anyone who’s been reading here for any length of time will know that I support Manchester United; that I do so because I tuned into the 1976 FA Cup Final by accident and began shouting for the losing side; that “support” lost a great deal of its former meaning on the day of the Heysel…

That’s my motto, anyway: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yD7PMxshlY]

Following on from England’s not-at-all-bad performance on Wednesday night, Arsene Wenger has reason to predict greater things coming Wembley-way as a result of the very youth training that’s come in for such criticism lately (here as much as anywhere else): The best time to be England manager will be in the middle of the next…

Everton fans voted yesterday to move away from their ancestral home at Goodison Park to a new ground in Kirkby. Goodison was one of the very first big, recognisably modern football grounds in the world. It was on a large scale from the beginning. Here it is on 27th September 1902 (click to enlarge): I’m…

My tube train had been half empty right up until Embankment. Then on came the England fans. It took a couple of minutes for the platform to clear itself into our carriage. The carriage became packed, then quickly moved past that into being rammed. The doors closed – first attempt, surprisingly – and the train…

Not this season, silly. I mean 1954: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgqRBZMG4uQ]

Imagine the following: a soccer game, when Hungary played with England and won 6:3. There is a man who fall asleep and goes back to the 50’s, when the game took place. He knows that Hungary will win, but nobody believe him. He follows the game at different places: at a pub, at the barber,…

When it happens – some time late in September, probably – it will have to be at the Salisbury, St Martin’s Lane. Here’s why Since 1892? We can’t let that go on, now, can we?