Month: December 2006

One late addition to my books of the year is Alison Kervin’s Clive Woodward: The Biography. Usually a sporting biography will fall into one of these categories: The pointless but money-spinning autobiography The tabloid hatchet job The ivory tower hatchet job The hagiography Kervin manages to stay clear of any of these, partly because she…

Now that England have gone 2-0 down in the series, the usual scapegoat hunt is well underway, with Duncan Fletcher in the firing line and Freddie Flintoff’s captaincy being questioned by those who think that remembering Ian Botham’s short-lived tenure is a sign of age and wisdom. For once, I think that the debate’s overcomplicated….

Here are all of the clips I’ve been able to find thus far of significant pre-War or Wartime football. There are others – I’ve favoured clips that give at least a faint idea of play or an idea of the sort of people involved. If anyone can locate the 1912 West Ham v Manchester United…

I’m not “back” as such – still hard at work at a larger project which will be the main feature of this site in 2007 if all goes to plan. But a conversation yesterday sparked off a train of thought that I want to preserve here before I forget. English football is full of years,…