
Football’s small pleasures: Handshake confusion
Will they be able to shake hands successfully without looking like massive idiots? We love the dance.
Will they be able to shake hands successfully without looking like massive idiots? We love the dance.
Being working-class or a minority in 2017 is not much fun. Football might be all there is…
It’s not the players who need to keep their shirts on here…it’s those who make a fuss.
Grown men pushing and shoving because they play for clubs geographically close. What fun.
Grounds get their identity not from bricks or steel but from fans. And old buildings are sh*t.
It is so patently cheating, and yet so obviously the smartest and most efficient thing to do…
Was Martin Tyler biased? In that moment when he is getting excited about Wayne Rooney, then yes. But he was right.
Most football simply isn’t exciting enough to shout yourself hoarse. Jose has to put on Rocky Horror, not Chekhov.
We *could* just use a stopwatch to keep things uniform. But where’s the bloody fun in that?
It’s the time of year for poking fun at club tat, but the only thing that solves it is an amnesty. Good luck…
There’s always somebody decrying records when they come with a caveat. But this is a useful caveat.
Would it surprise you to learn it was more common to Do a Leeds 40 years ago than it is now?
A corporate mascot saved Steven Chicken’s life, so think before you decry RB Leipzig…
Gloves? Gloves? Just because it’s cold? Keeping warm is human instinct but God help the footballer who tries…
The world’s serious enough as it is; let’s enjoy the ridiculous where we can. And this is sodding ridiculous.
We’d all be a little bit annoyed if someone moved our knives and forks, but it’s only a minor inconvenience.
For some, coloured football boots are a definite sign of fickle, flighty players. You like colours? You big poove…
They make Henry Winter very angry but this is a newsflash: There’s no such thing as enjoying it wrong.