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Bend me, shape me, any way you want me
Wimpy has been a staple of the British high street for decades, and having walked past one literally hundreds of times this last few years, it was…
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Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, Chapter G; improbable, implausible and contrived
The 21st century started with England's first overseas manager, but most of the next decade and a half would see a 'golden generation' trampled into…
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Girondins de Bordeaux: tombé en panne
They'd been suspended by a thread for a couple of weeks, and this week the thread snapped. Bordeaux, the club of Zidane, Tresor and Lizarazu, are dead.
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A promising post-playing career blown apart by careless words
Joey Barton is back in course, this time on malicious communications charges. Doesn't sound like the sort of thing a media personality should be getting…
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Go Woking or Go Broke
A loan from the owner's parents will keep them going for now, but Woking aren;t out the woods yet, and all as a result of good old-fashioned…
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Rome Wasn't Built in Day; Chapter 16, Not in the wider interests of football
There's a version of the story of football in which the early 21st century was a period of growth, but underneath all this anger was building at the way…
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Enzo Fernandez, and a surprising outburst
It remains extremely surprising to hear such flagrant racism coming from a group of international footballers. Did no-one consider the consequences?
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Gareth Southgate: our part in his downfall
It's the end of an era, and probably the right time to go, but the vituperation that he received in his final few weeks didn't reflect well on English…
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A brief introduction to the 2024/25 club football season
There are plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic ahead of the new season, but there do remain plenty to feel optimistic, too.
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Next season on Unexpected Delirium
More new content, more podcast, and possibly some other stuff, depending on how offensive it was.
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Euro 2024; England finally hit their comedown
England were beaten by the best team in the tournament at the end of a tournament which was a strange mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Euro 2024 Podcast: Lemon Fanta, it turns out, does not equal Banter
Take down the bunting and put away the arse flares. England lost to the best international team in Europe.
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