Liverpool

A Sad Day for Bury, A Sad Day for Football.

It is hard to comprehend that a football club that had been part of the fabric of English football for 125 years is no more. Bury having been expelled from the English Football League this week become just the second

A Level Paying Field

Whenever people refer to sporting contests the phrase ‘it must be an even playing field’ invariably pops up. Over the years the interpretation of the phrase has changed. It used to mean that the conditions for all contests and or

A Challenge to Human Spirit

It used to be that the world was far more Black and White. Newspapers were in Black and White, Photographs were Black and White, and Television was in Black and White. In those long gone days the rules and laws

Vale Gordon Banks – The Greatest Goalkeeper

On the 22nd of October 1972 when I heard the news that my hero, someone I had saved up my pocket money to buy a poster of from Don Rogers sports shop in Swindon had been in a car crash

Podcast #58 – Fandom, Do You CORF or BIRG? And So Much More.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

If you are reading this you are no doubt a sports-fan, but what kind of fan are you and why are you loyal to your team? Our guest on this show is Brand and Reputation consultant David Mitchell fonder of