I HAVE SPENT some years now – as a manager in both the hospitality industry and as a coach/manager in the footballing sphere – thinking about what it is that makes a…
MY GIRLFRIEND IS OBSESSED WITH ALAN RICKMAN. So great is her infatuation with the late actor that she once loitered in the shadows long after Rickman had departed a Q&A session at…
SPENCER OWEN’S ‘SPENCER FC’ YouTube channel boasts almost two million subscribers. That’s a lot of people. The online activities of this charismatic West Ham fan include video blogs based around the loyal…
“JOHN STONES HAS MORE PERSONALITY than all of us here together in this room, more balls than everyone here. I like that. I love him. Under pressure, the people criticise him, so…
SOME TIME AGO, not a particularly long time since, I felt the inclination to share via my Twitter feed, a quote from enigmatic Argentine football coach, Marcelo Bielsa. The quote I shared…
Illustration by Dan Leydon. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram I’M OFTEN ASKED a question that, upon the reception of the answer, my inquisitor appears somewhat perturbed. The question is a common…
Make no mistake, there is a battle going on. We are living in a world that is in danger of being overwhelmed by a tsunami of incoherence. A raging torrent of piffle…
At times – I think that it’d be fair to say – I harbour a tendency to overthink things. To look for meaning when perhaps none is there. To grasp at the…
Illustration by Alex Noriega WHEN I LEAVE my flat to go to work later on today, a number of events may occur. That number is, in fact, infinite. Some of these events…
MONEY BUYS QUALITY. Quality in football is, to a large extent, determined by the individual actions of a player that are measurable. Goals scored, passes completed, assists given, interceptions made; the list…