Irish eyes are smiling…

This week has seen an occasion to savour for fans of the Republic of Ireland team, and I’ve certainly been sinking a few pints of

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Keep Right On into Europe!

Blues fans are delighted after a spectacular European triumph during the week, and quite rightly so. There aren’t many occasions in football quite like the

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That start of the season feeling

The Premier League season started last week after one of the more turbulent and eventful summers I can ever remember, yet , despite every twist and turn, as I arrived ...

Could the last one out switch the lights off?

It's been a while. Sorry about that. I didn't forget about you - there was a blog about Alex McLeish that was written three separate times from scratch, each one ...

The Villa Vacancy

I’d imagined that these close-season blogs would be difficult to populate due to a lack of suitable subject matter. Turns out that the only difficulty is working out what to omit, ...

Feeling Blue…

Just when Villa fans were willing the season to end, along came what they thought was never going to come this season – an utterly perfect day. Not only did Darren ...

Dear Lord, just let it end…

I had an email from my mate Ben today. "I'm not going to the match on Saturday." "Why not?" "I'm going to a barbecue instead..." Normally such a revelation would leave me spluttering in ...

Sorry Bill, you were wrong.

Regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time, Bill Shankly is often remembered for saying "Football isn't a matter of life and death, it's much more important ...

Rooneygate: Effing ridiculous!

Old news as it may be, Wayne Rooney's outburst at West Ham United's Boleyn Ground two weeks ago not only sees Manchester United's controversial talisman having to sit out this ...

It’s business time…

Greetings, City TV fans. I'm Tom Parker, and this is your cordial welcome to the first in my series of blogs taking a look at all matters concerning the beautiful ...