Sometimes football just sweeps you away... Aston Villa 4-0 Nottingham Forest, in the Europa League semi-finals, was a performance, an occasion and an atmosphere that will stay with me forever. The 40,000-plus home fans filed out of the stadium at full-time in broad agreement that they'd just
This week: Intrepid travels to, erm, the Netherlands and Birmingham Last month, when my editor and I were discussing how to approach this piece on back threes, N.E.C. Nijmegen's bizarre approach to football was brought up. We figured we'd chuck them in as an
This week: Easter football, Champions League clues & NEC Nijmegen One of the glorious things about football in this country is that Easter brings two quickfire slates of games: one on Good Friday, then another on Easter Monday. I spent Monday at Vicarage Road where I saw Watford and Charlton
Social media sucks. Discoverability sucks. This is my FLEX TAPE. One dingy, rainy morning in November last year, I was stood outside Putney Bridge tube station, trying to book an Uber to take me to Craven Cottage. I was a teensy bit hazy; the night before, I'd attended