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Men in grey suits: Black lives don’t matter
With Black Lives Matter banners adorning the otherwise empty stands of Premier League football grounds, you could be mistaken for...
Today’s Tales: The Bielsa and Pep love-in, Spurs are Spurs, United are United and Klopp thanks Southgate
One thing, OK one of many things, we’ve been a little bit slack on this season is covering the Champions...
Football, politics and the question of values
‘Well one ex-follower certainly showed their true colours tonight. You f***ing Judas c**t.' This Twitter comment, made on 18th March...
Today’s Tales: Time for the beauty parade as City need eleven
Today’s mad ramblings will take the form of an Erling Haaland-shaped beauty parade and head all over the Premier League...
The Football Pink’s Greatest: Midfielders
The role of midfielder is certainly the position on the football pitch that offers the most variety. It encompasses tough...
Today’s Tales: International distraction
As ever, the International break was completely worth it - no? Wasn’t it great to see our national teams play...
Stamford Bridge’s revolving door: Will Chelsea’s chopping and changing ever catch up with them?
When Roman Abramovich sacked Frank Lampard in January it initially came as a shock, but it was hardly surprising. Abramovich...
Spurs are all together and behind Mourinho (except for Bale and Reguillon and maybe Levy)
According to Brazilian Lucas Moura, the great Tottenham Hotspur are all fully behind their manager, Jose Mourinho. As Brian Clough...
Horse racing: A significant part of the football fabric
We are well into March, the nights are drawing out, mornings are getting lighter, the weather should appear to be...
Today’s Tales: Grealish’s name to go up in LED lights at the Etihad?
Ah, the magic of the FA Cup. The quarter-finals where winning teams guarantee a trip to Wembley. The kind of...
The Football Pink’s Greatest: Transfers
The transfer market is an incredible thing. Players have their lives uplifted and flung left, right and centre on the...
Today’s Tales: Jose quickly bored of another game of hide-and-seek
So, Jose Mourinho only looks up the table, does he? If his Tottenham team continue to be so inconsistent then...
Stealth and secrecy: Valuable attributes in any organisation
The game has witnessed some of the best football writers over the years; Reg Drury, Brian Woolnough, John Sadler amongst...
Today’s Tales: Pat Nevin knows his football more than Mikel Arteta does
I, like a lot of people, have a lot of respect for Pat Nevin. He's a guy who knows his...
Today’s Tales: A three-year search leads United home
So, after three years of searching high-and-you'd-suspect-low for their first-ever Director of Football Manchester United have settled on Manchester United's...
Fifa and searching for legitimacy: Saudi Arabia’s prospering relationship with esports
If you have watched plenty of TV throughout lockdown 3.0, you may have noticed one reappearing advert. It opens with...
Today’s Tales: 20 years of Levy, Brunaldo could work it out for himself and more
Dear reader, the Pink has made a move in the transfer market and I am bringing my inane dismay-filled ramblings...
The physio: The more things change, the more they stay the same
It wasn't all that long ago when the medical team in all the 92 professional clubs consisted of one full-time...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part 13)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part 12)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
The Football Pink’s Greatest: Match Experience
While football was eventually restarted after the first wave of the pandemic, sadly it remains a hollow viewing experience right...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part 11)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Book review: From the Jaws of Victory: A History of Football’s Nearly Men
The summer of 2016 was an incredibly rough period for many people of these fair shores. On the 23rd of...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær: How he could successfully emulate Sir Alex Ferguson
When talking about the world’s greatest ever manager to have ever lived, two names spring to mind in a split...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part 10)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
The Football Pink’s Greatest: Goalkeepers
Goalkeepers are often one of the most under-appreciated, and most heavily criticised players on a football pitch. When they play...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Nine)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Frank Lampard’s sacking: A defeated battle to transform Chelsea’s ruthless culture
Take yourself back to May 2004. On paper, it was Chelsea’s most successful season in the Premier League. Claudio Ranieri...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Eight)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Seven)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
The Football Pink’s Greatest: Villians
While most people watch football as a positive experience, as a release from outside pressures and troubles, there will always...
The world according to Championship Manager 89/90 (Part One)
Join me if you will. It’s time to go back. Way, way back. In 1989/90 I believe I was about...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Six)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
The physio: The manager and his partnership with the medical team
When then-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho became embroiled in an internal row with club doctor Eva Carneiro in the club’s first...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Five)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Four)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Three)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part Two)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Diary of a refugee football club secretary (Part One)
In January 2018, Ullet Road Church Rebels were formed in Liverpool. The Rebels are the first club to field an...
Book review: How to Run a Football Club
In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football....
Youth: The essence of a club and football
Football has changed a lot in the past century, with so many changes brought on and off the pitch, it...
Book review: St Pauli: Another Football is Possible
Less overlapping full-backs, catenaccio and gegenpresse, more punk rock, autonomia and Gramscian theory, this is no ordinary football book. Which...
Cross-border leagues: The future of ‘lesser’ European football
For a number of years, the idea of a European Super League has circulated, a league which would take the...
From rags to riches: The Jamie Vardy story
Jamie Richard Vardy; the name of one of football’s biggest underdogs who has gone on to accomplish what no one...
Premier League broadcasting: An uneasy streaming dilemma
When Project Restart was authorised, the ‘festival of football’ began. The Premier League carnival negotiated with its broadcasters and the...
Sweet Sixteen: Life in Leeds United’s void
Leeds United's 16-year spell outside the top flight was a tumultuous and often tragic period in their history. Matt Abbott...
VAR: the flop of the season
Usually, at the end of the season, the task is to review a team's performance or a players debut campaign...
Book review: The Authorised Biography of Bobby Buckle – Only a boy, only an idea
There’s so much in this fascinating short book to appeal not only to followers of Tottenham Hotspur but to people...
Book review: W C L D N
W C L D N - Glen Wilson It takes a deft touch and an eye for detail to evoke...
The internet club: The story of Hashtag United
Hashtag United is a young club with a huge story. Founded in 2016 by Youtuber Spencer Owen - who is...