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 [...]

The Sporting Year

12 Blogs of Christmas: #5 When I originally wrote up my proposal for this Twelve Blogs series, I deliberately put my porting review of the year in just after the end of the fourth Ashes test in Melbourne. I thought it might have inspired me to write something about the cricket. How right I was. [...]

They Think It’s All Over

The News in Haiku #22…. “Spurs back in action, Champions League qualifyer. Will we win again?” Many of you will have noticed that in the busiest of weekends I failed to mention the football. Apparently some north London club beat another north London club. I’m off to the pub momentarily to watch the mighty Spurs [...]

The Apple Of My i(Mac)

The News in Haiku #9…. “George Bush has written A book.  I did not even know that he’d read one” A series of random things. In a list…. The gas-man came good in the end (I knew you were worried). He did explain to me what had gone wrong with our central heating system and [...]

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 [...]

Bale, The Master

Okay, so no-one was expecting a second blog entry for the day but just sometimes, needs must. Spurs 3 v 1 FC Internazionale Love the way the word “Master” frames Bale’s delivery in this screencap.

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 [...]

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-Five – Sunflowers

“I would like to fly to the moon And walk across my feelings for you I would take a bucket and a spade Dig a hole and then look at the love that I made” “Sunflowers” by Francis Dunnery, 2001 An early posting for you today, as later on this evening I will be going [...]

Day Eighteen – Delivery

Well, it was a funny old day yesterday. As a Spurs fan, I’ve been looking forward to the Champion’s League for months. After 30 minutes last night it looked like it might be another 48 years before I’d be looking forward to it again. Thankfully a couple of lucky away goals brought us back from [...]