Tags: john nicholson
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Johnny NicEuropean football is now fraudulent and flatulent…
Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt but it does breed indifference. Johnny struggles to get excited now...
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Johnny NicHave you got the hindshite virus? It’s making you ill…
Do you believe the Premier League when they tell you football is better now? Johnny wants a word...
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Johnny NicForget billionaires and welcome the fan-ownership revolution
Fans are the fabric of football. So why do they not have a greater say in how clubs are run, instead of relying on billionaire owners?
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Johnny NicFootball will survive the greedy, mendacious bullshitters…
Bury will survive in some form because football belongs to the people. And the people are strong.
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Johnny NicThe football revolution will not be televised. It’ll be podcasted…
Johnny Nic reckons the recent boom in football podcasts provides a stark warning to broadcasters...
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Johnny NicTeemu Pukki is a hero who shows we should never give up
Teemu Pukki looks like a builder, is a top fella, bloody well gets it and is smashing it at Norwich.
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Johnny NicVAR debates are exhausting, wearying and totally pointless…
Nobody is going to change anybody's mind, says Johnny. It's all so utterly pointless...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: Phil Parkinson, captain of Bolton’s sinking ship
With only two senior players available this weekend, Phil Parkinson is leading Bolton's fight for survival...
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Johnny NicThe only solution to financial insanity: End transfers.
It's not Monopoly money; it's actual real money. John Nicholson is baffled and enraged by the madness...
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Johnny NicFootball is back to give us all structure and meaning
Football is back to remind us what day it is and, for a brief time at least, unite us all. Hurrah.
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Johnny NicGareth Bale and the myth of fellating the holy moolah…
Why would somebody so phenomenally rich need to acquire more and more? John Nicholson is aghast...
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week is unparalleled genius, David Squires
He makes Tuesdays fun, he takes aim at absolutely everyone and he nailed it with Gunnersaurus. What a guy.
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Johnny NicArsenal’s Tierney bid a symptom of anti-Scottish bigotry…
No Premier League club pays big money for Scottish players because of bigotry, says John Nicholson...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: The everyman and yet very special Peter Crouch
Genuinely loved, even if it was not always so. Our Johnny doffs his cap to Crouchy...
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Johnny NicExpectations are just a fiction you have invented; lose them
If you let go of the idea that your club 'should' do something, life becomes a lot more enjoyable...
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Johnny NicOnly losers think ‘winning’ is just about trophies…
Johnny believes that being a 'winner' doesn't involve actually winning anything. Deal with it.
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Johnny NicHero of the week: The exceptional, canny Steph Houghton
Steph Houghton missed a penalty but remains a hero in the eyes of many. She is a legend.
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Johnny NicEmpathy and joy: It’s watching the Women’s World Cup…
There are England fans in France who are enjoying a wonderful tournament away from the idiots.
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Johnny NicHero of the week: Sam Kerr so ‘suck on that one’…
This week's hero is an Australian with a potty mouth.
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Johnny Nic427 things we learned from the 2018/19 season, ft. Man Utd
Well, not quite 427. But Johnny Nic says this year showed plenty about tactics, money, fans and more...
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Johnny NicThe British media and the ‘mad foreigns’: A worrying trend
Maurizio Sarri is merely the latest foreign manager to be destroyed by the British press...
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Johnny NicF*** ‘market forces’, fans are being screwed at every turn…
The price of Champions League tickets and flights is disgusting. We should be angry about this...
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Johnny NicHow can anyone be ‘proud’ of the Premier League?
English clubs dominating in Europe should make nobody but those clubs proud, says Johnny Nic...
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Johnny NicWhy the Championship is better than the Premier League
Johnny is relieved that Boro remain in a division that is not all about money...
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Johnny NicShould we divorce Man City from human rights abuses?
John Nicholson worries that he is being childish when he struggles with the whole killing gays thing...
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Johnny NicDean Smith: A man for whom Aston Villa legend status awaits
If he gets them promoted and established in the Premier League as a fan, that is. And that's hardly outlandish.
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Johnny NicWhy Man United are brown and being neutral is impossible
Johnny would support Liverpool against Man City or St Etienne, but not Malmo, Rapid Vienna or Carlisle. But why?
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Johnny NicTalking to (ex?) racists about racism in football…
Johnny wants to understand the men who chanted racist things in the 1970s. So he talked to some...
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Johnny NicWhat’s the f***ing point of chasing a distant seventh?
Johnny wants to see the ridiculousness of a Seventh Place Trophy. Why not?
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Johnny NicOle success feeds the ‘knows the club’ brigade
Some are already using this utter nonsense to suggest Frank Lampard to Chelsea...