‘We’re running out of on-pitch knockabout. Something must be done.’

January 19th, 2010

By Jonnie Baker 19 January 2010 The English Premier League, or EPL as people who must immediately be smothered are prone to call it, is the best league in the world. We know this because a man said it the other day and we must trust the men from football or all about us shall be anarchy, fire and woe. But this lofty status in the world game presents a problem, a very serious problem which no-one at Fifa, Uefa, Concacaf or even Talksport seems prepared to take seriously. You see, as the quality of the Premiership continues to head for the...

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Oh my Pod! What in the name of Nosworthy is all that gibbering about?

January 1st, 2010

By Jonnie Baker 1 January 2010 I’m not convinced I know much about football. No, what I mean is, I’m not convinced I understand much about football. Certainly I boast a reasonable knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the game – that the Saddlers are Walsall and Josimar scored a screamer for Brazil while Careca and Casagrande were waiting in the middle. Standard football stuff. What gives me pause, and this is a fairly new phenomenon, is a growing belief that I am simply not grasping the more esoteric elements of the soccerball. And there is a single reason for this nascent...

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