Love/Hate Football

There is a slightly well-known sketch from the Mitchell & Webb show that features David Mitchell pacing around the outside of a football pitch, talking over-excitedly about upcoming matches in the caricatured style of a SkySports trailer. It invariably makes Mrs F laugh as it effortlessly takes the mickey out of my second favourite sport [...]

Take A Bow, Son

Andy Gray has been sacked by Sky, and Richard Keys is sure to follow, I suspect. The story seems to have taken on unnecessarily high focus of attention, which, by talking about it, I guess I am just adding to, so I shouldn’t complain. However, it is one of those stories that seems designed to [...]

Football’s Not Coming Home

“It’s coming home. It’s coming home. It’s coming”…. erm, no it’s not Skinner, Baddiel and The Lightening Seeds, “Three Lions”, 1996 I really wanted England to win the World Cup 2018 bid but, like almost every penalty shoot out before it, the English got humiliated at the last hurdle. The seemingly intense effort that was [...]

Real And Unreal Football

The News in Haiku #6…. “Dear News of the World, How’d you bloody like it if Coulson hacked your phone?” Back down to earth with a bump this afternoon after the glories of midweek for the Spurs’ fans among my readership, still, it was nice while it lasted but wasn’t it ever thus. One moment [...]

Pompey To Be Closed Down And Liquidated (?)

“… it appears likely that the club will now be closed down and liquidated by the Administrators as they are unable to support the continued trading of the club.” Portsmouth FC Website, 22nd October 2010 Sorry to hit you with a second footballing blog in the space of two days but the above quote is [...]

Supporting Spurs: A Day In The Life

“But the footballer’s wife tells her troubles and strife, I just don’t care in the end, Who is she to pretend, That she’s one of them, I don’t think so.” Amy MacDonald, “Footballer’s Wife”, 2008 That was quite the game of football last night. I arrived at the pub two minutes after kick-off and we [...]

Small Spender

“The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender, Good lookin’ ,so refined” Shirley Bassey, “Big Spender”, 1984 I am tempted to spout forth with another outpouring of political angst. News that the government’s much-hyped Comprehensive Spending Review has begun to lead to some [...]

Naming Of Parts

“To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts” Henry Reed, “Naming Of Parts”, 1942 Just watched the England v Montenegro Euro 2012 qualifier from Wembley. 0-0. That’s two hours of my life I’m [...]

Likely Lad

“Ooh, what happened to you, Whatever happened to me, What became of the people, We used to be?” “Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads” theme, 1973-74 Late night blogging again. As mentioned yesterday, I spent the day up at an all-day meeting followed by a social on London’s South Bank. I successfully managed to avoid [...]

Day Twenty-Six – Scarlet Secret

There is some activity taking place chez Fazzinhchi that I am under strict instructions to reveal absolutely nothing about. Well, don’t tell Mrs F, but today’s photo of the day is a mysterious picture of a very significant red “thing”. The thing in question, along with other smaller yet more important things forms part of [...]