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BY JIM KEOGHAN In an age in which most football writing is obsessed with the big clubs, leading players and transfer madness, it’s encouraging to
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by @Markthablue Merry Christmas Blues (and everyone else)! With Santa’s night-shift over and done for another year, I thought I’d share some memories of watching Everton
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BY SIMON DUFFIN When Port Kembla FC run out next weekend to take on Callala Brumbies in Australia’s FFA Cup, they’ll be hoping this is
BY CHRIS CLARK Concord Rangers – there’s a fair chance you’ve never heard of them. Founded in 1967, they played their first games on a pitch
BY DARREN NORTON “Re-visit graveyards Pubs and clubs But don’t go back To a place you love They quickly turn To distant shores No longer
BY TOMOS KNOX In July 1995, Montserrat Рa small island in the Caribbean Рwas shrouded in smoke as its Soufri̬re Hills volcano erupted,
BY CHARLES DUCKSBURY When you hear old women talking about football on the bus, then you know something big must have happened. If the old
Enjoy The Football Pink magazine? Like selling things and making money? Then why not combine the two things and become one of our select band
BY PAUL BREEN As a football writer they say that you have to keep ahead of the game. Tonight there’s a match in the Football
BY MARK GODFREY On Saturday, I climbed out of my sick bed to mosey on down to Croft Park, home of Blyth Spartans, to stand
Oh Everton, I was hoping against hope I’d be writing an upbeat and positive report on our trip to the Emirates. Instead, I feel like
BY LAURA BRADBURN With the recent round of Europa League matches proving to be one of the most exciting for the tournament in its short
BY MARK GODFREY Unless you’re a fan of Liverpool Football Club you might not have a clue who Reuben Bennett is; and even then, those
MARTIN CLOAKE reviews author David Goldblatt’s latest offering on the continued cultural significance of football on today’s society. Football books used to be noticeable by
Everton enjoy a weekend off as many of their Premier League rivals switch their focus on to the FA Cup fifth round. If results go
BY MARK GODFREY Wimbledon’s FA Cup win in 1988 may not quite have confirmed them a place as one of the ‘Establishment’ in English football,
This editorial featured in Issue 6 of The Football Pink available HERE Since our last edition’s release in early August, the regular football season has
By Paul Breen @CharltonMen – this article first appeared in The Impartial Reporter Newspaper in December 2012 but has never appeared online until now. Once
BY PETER MILES Football rivalries are endemic across the globe but rarely has a rivalry been so ingrained into a city’s psyche that it transcended
BY TONY TOPPING The long and illustrious history of football is now and again graced with men of pure genius. Footballing giants whose exploits are
Picture Via Steve Walker on Flickr It truly was one of the biggest FA Cup shocks of recent times. Not only did League One team
By @Markthablue THIS is not the end of our troubles. We’re still in a precarious position but it is something for us to build on
West Stand Bogs (WSB) is a Community Trust set up with the intention of supporting Barnsley business and charities. They publish a quarterly fanzine and donate
This article originally appeared in Issue 6 of The Football Pink which you can buy HERE or get it for half price when you buy
by  andrew_j_w ‘It’s a disgrace’, so exclaimed Jose Mourinho upon seeing his Premier League-leading Chelsea side unceremoniously dumped out of the FA Cup at the hands
BY MARK GODFREY When a man of almost 56 years old opens a Twitter account for the first time, it’s fair to say one would
BY JIM KEOGHAN In an age in which most football writing is obsessed with the big clubs, leading players and transfer madness, it’s encouraging to
BY MARK CARRUTHERS, BLYTH SPARTANS PRESS OFFICER Exaggeration seems to be common place in modern day football doesn’t it? For example saying Manchester City are
THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN ISSUE 5 OF THE FOOTBALL PINK MAGAZINE CHRIS ETCHINGHAM examines the life and times of notorious Serb warlord and ‘football
BY WILLIAM HEANEY I normally have no strong feelings one way or the other when it comes to West Bromwich Albion. However, this season, I
BY RAY HARPER 2014 was something of calamitous year for football clubs on the Wirral, with all 3 major senior teams on the Cheshire peninsula
Sheffield United fan STEVE KAY looks back at the Ched Evans affair and asks how the situation could have been handled better, and by whom.
BY JIM KEOGHAN In a recent poll, a representative sample of the population was asked to list its top five fears. In order they were:
BY TOMOS KNOX For most fans, supporting their club conveys pride and joy, to see the fruits of their youth team set up burgeoning is
It was while listening to the regurgitated sports news bulletins on TalkSport during my eleventh consecutive night shift at KFC that I had the idea
BY PAUL BREEN By now, Santa has already returned to the darkest depths of Lapland, so it’s a bit late for last-minute requests, but there are a few stocking
by @Markthablue Merry Christmas Blues (and everyone else)! With Santa’s night-shift over and done for another year, I thought I’d share some memories of watching Everton
BY MAT GUY With the one hundred year anniversary of the Christmas Day truce – a match played out between the German and British trenches that
This article was originally featured in Issue 3 of The Football Pink fanzine from November 2013. Available HERE CHRIS SMITH has a plan. It’s for
South London band breaks onto the music scene with a song about……a footballer? Until this year songs about footballers have largely been confined to the
BY MARK GODFREY Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald – the guys behind the excellent Magic Spongers blog – released their compilation of short footballing love
 The Premier League asked The Farm to re-release their top ten hit “All Together Now” to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Christmas Day
BY DEBBIE FLETCHER Entertaining, unpredictable and totally absorbing – the Premier League season hasn’t failed to disappoint. As 2014 makes way for 2015 and the
BY ASHLEY GREB “Can you get down from there?†It wasn’t really a question. His stern lilt definitely hinted at an even firmer instruction. Somewhere
BY MARK GODFREY Friday night’s giant-killing act by renowned FA Cup shock artists Blyth Spartans may not only have been a triumph for the lads
BY JIM KEOGHAN If Taylor Swift has taught us anything, it’s that “haters’ gonna hateâ€. But whether you consider this to be a regretful state
BY MARK GODFREY Just how long have we – the English general public that is – been complaining that the footballers chosen to represent our
BY MAT GUY The disaffection within football’s fan-base with the big business that runs the top end of the professional game seems to be accelerating
With a smile wider than Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Batman, I couldn’t wait to finish work to write down my thoughts on a superb Everton
BY CHRIS MARSHALL Hello and welcome to another Sporadic Scottish Football Round Up from Meat Filled Pastries. Well, what’s happened since we last spoke? The
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