Month: January 2009

Here’s a map of the moonside wanderings of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin superimposed on a football pitch. A good defensive display, on the whole, and there’s Armstrong going up for the corner. I think the fact that this is NASA’s superimposition speaks volumes for the growing influence of the game in…

I can’t see any good coming from this. And I can’t see why he did it: after ten years at Burton, he was on the verge of taking them into the Football League. What an amazing, extraordinary achievement to helicopter yourself out from. Yes, his wages will be higher, yes, he won’t have to travel…