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The Gut Punch

The Long Read: English Football's Top-Flight One-Hit Wonders

Single Parenthood & I: How a bookcase helped me find myself again

The Long Read: Bradford, the Avenue, and the Great Betrayal

The Best Team in the Land & All the World, Part Twelve: Sayonara

Single Parenthood & I: School Sports Day

The Long Read: Charlton Athletic & The Battle for The Valley

Single Parenthood & I: The Apps Won't Work

The Long Read: Football vs Fascism in the 1930s

Single Parenthood & I: Out With The Old

The Best Team in the Land and all The World, Part Eleven: How Manchester United Didn't 'Kill The FA Cup'

Ange Out

The Soundtrack to My Life: The Weekly Playlist - Colours

The Long Read: The Almost Complete History of Stamford Bridge

Single Parenthood & I: Timmy Mallett, going down a K-hole

The Long Read: M4 Corridors of Power

It's Raining Diamonds on Saturn

The Best Team in the Land & All The World, Part Ten: Tokyo Drift

Soundtrack to my Life: The Drums and I, Part Two: A Top Ten Favourite Tracks

On Hiding Yourself, and Learning to Love Yourself Again

The Football Kickback: Transactional Relationships

The Soundtrack to my Life: The Drums & I, Part One: Origin Story, and Peccadilloes

The Best Team in the Land & All The World, Part Nine: A Dog Without an Owner

Some final thoughts on the Europa League Final

The Soundtrack to my Life: On the Songs I Can't Listen to Any More

The Europa League Final: Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur - Liveblog!

The Long Read: Chapman & Allison; The Men Who Built The Arsenal

The Football Kickback: Fast Falls The Eventide

The Weekend Review: The Henderson Final

The Soundtrack to my Life: On Existentialism, and Notwantingtoexistentialism

Single Parenthood & I: What Can I Learn From Them?

The Long Read - Accrington & Colne: Touched by the Hand of Burnley

The Football Kickback: In Defence of Spoons

The Soundtrack to my Life: There Was a Girl That Sang Like The Chime of a Bell

The Best Team in The Land & All The World, Part Eight: Where are Joop Van Daele's Glasses?

Light in your head and dead on your feet on Non-League Finals Day

The Soundtrack to my Life: The Soundtrack of my Inner Monologue

The Europa League Semi-Finals: FK Bodø/Glimt vs Tottenham Hotspur Liveblog

The Long Read: Men of the Clyde

The Football Kickback: Cheer up luv, might never happen

The Weekend Review: The Weekend of Giving Up

The Long Read: The Nacional Stadium Disaster of 1964 and Peru's complex political history

The Best Team in The Land & All The World, Part Seven: La Bombonera Massacre

The Weekend Review: You'll Sometimes Walk Alone

Single Parenthood and I: Tales From The End of The Garden

National League South Chaos Saturday: The Liveblog!

Leeds United: If The (Flat) Cap Fits

Tales From Football History: Over There In Barry Town, They Do Things Very Strange

The National League South Heads Towards An Appropriately Chaotic Denouement

The Best Team In The Land & All The World, Part Six: Estudiantes of The Dark Arts

The Weekend Review: They Could be Playing in the Champions League Next Season

Bullsed Up

Farewell Shrewsbury, we hardly knew ye

Tales from Football History: Living in the Plastic Age

The Best Team In The Land & All The World, Part Five: "No More Than an Unseemly and Sickening Brawl"

Hillsborough, 36 years on

The Weekend Review: All Glitched Out

The Football Kickback: It's Raining Diamonds on Saturn

Mo Salah, No Cry

Tales from Football History: From Muscular Christianity to the Death of Amateurism

The Europa League Quarter-Finals: Spurs vs Eintracht Frankfurt Liveblog

Only the bad Dai Yongge

The Best Team In The Land & All The World, Part Four: A descent towards violence

The Football Kickback: Faxe and Figures

The Weekend Review: Here come the yips

Sheffield Wednesday and Chansiri doing Chansiri things again

2,000 words on Blackburn, Lancashire

Nottingham Forest are A Good Football Team

The Ten Commandments of Internet Dating

The Weekend Review: the weirdly disappointing FA Cup quarter-finals

Alone, on top of the world, looking down on creation

Words & Pictures to Follow: Worthing United vs Storrington

Joey the wife-beater

The Best Team In the Land & All The World, Part Three: No, you're not the "world champions"

FC100000? Just the FC99900 to go, by the looks of it

The Weekend Review: runaway winners and races that are just hotting up

Leaving Bas Vegas

Words & Pictures to Follow: Basildon United vs Heybridge Swifts

On missing the emotional side of football

The Weekly Spurs: You can't go home again

Might Walsall be heading for The Choke of the Season?

The Best Team In the Land & All The World, Part Two: The Best Team in Europe vs The Best Team in South America

The Football Kickback: Sponsored By The Concept of Milk

The Weekend Review: a glorious victory for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Single Parenthood and I: the birds and the bees in the age of the incels

The Thursday Spurs: The Foreboding

Will Huddersfield's managerial gamble turn out to be lucrative or costly?

Liverpool: The Premier League will need to mean more, now

The Best Team In the Land & All The World, Part One: The Many Faces of World Championships

On the subject of value

The Weekend Review: 'deserve' isn't a valuable currency in football

The Football Kickback: Eggs are different, nowadays

Home, and waiting for the cards to land

Words & Pictures to Follow: Worthing vs Chesham United

Single Parenthood & I: My last game before the pandemic

The Great FA Cup Opportunity

A brief review of the FA Cup 5th Round

For the first time in 14 games, Luton Town have won a football match

Young man, there's no need to feel Down

Words & Pictures to Follow: Horsham YMCA vs Crawley Down Gatwick

Single Parenthood & I: on Radium & astigmatism (or, a trip to the opticians)

The Wednesday Spurs: why you'll prise the name Tottenham from my cold, dead hands

Glory Glory, Mass Redundancies

Maldon, Tiptree, and a familiar story unfolding again

Why Barnet need to get back to their home Borough

The Football Kickback: I won't do the accent

Licensed to Ilford

Words & Pictures to follow: Ilford vs Benfleet

The temporary decline and fall of Manchester City

Leicester City and the gathering, perfect storm

The Wednesday Spurs: The Trouble With Levy Out

Return to Farsley; a club only going from bad to worse

The Football Kickback: Delapdancing

Spurs versus Manchester United: Who's the Worst?

Shoreham run ragged by Crows

Words & Pictures to Follow: Shoreham vs Crowborough Athletic

The Merseyside derby and the loss of Goodison Park

Single Parenthood & I: The Valentine's Day Trap

The Now Apparently Weekly Spurs Rant

The Football Kickback: Gary Lineker & Willie Thorne; Best of Friends

Why we actually do need to retain the "magic" of our cup competitions

Brentwood Town and woodpecker notifications

Words & Pictures to Follow: Brentwood Town vs Sporting Bengal United

Three up three down makes sense for the National League, but can the EFL be persuaded?

The essential weirdness of the transfer window

The Football Kickback: the cost of women's haircuts

When the football can't save you from yourself

Words & Pictures to Follow: Horsham vs Dulwich Hamlet

Single Parenthood & I: The Best Pasta Sauce in the World and Autonomy

Embargo lifted, but Morecambe remain moored to the bottom

It's the Champions League Enorm-o-group Final Night... Live!

The PGMOL and Premier League are not helping themselves, over refereeing standards

On the enshittification of everything

The Football Kickback: You won't be laughing when match day tickets cost £500

As Bad As Things Got: Tottenham Hotspur, 7th May 1977

Equality FC take their mission statement to its logical conclusion

Words & Pictures to Follow: The Gang of Four

Prosiect Cymru and the delicate balances between Welsh and English club football

A$AP Rocky may be the headline at the moment for Tranmere, but Tacopina is the story

Unelected Tory Lords trying to stop the independent football regulator, is it?

As Bad as Things Got: Manchester United, 5th May 1934

The Football Kickback: Podcast Derby Special

Chelmsford City, Hornchurch, and when the only way is Essex

Single Parenthood and I: On affairs of the heart

Words & Pictures to follow: Chelmsford City vs Hornchurch

Spurs need decisive action if they're to break their current run

Single Parenthood & I: The genetic lottery

Luton, Wycombe and the harsh realities of football management

Forest, Wood, Trees

Tamworth demonstrate the costs of abandoning FA Cup replays

The Football Kickback: Shoulders back, boobs to the moon

Arsenal, Manchester United, and a game without frontiers

Everton, and existence versus living

A partial defence of Mikel Arteta's balls

Julen Lopetegui: Delete as Appropriate

On growing up in a scrap metal yard, in a railway station, with a goose

The Football Kickback: Never start with a number 40 in goal

Liverpool vs Manchester United: As it happens (unless we wander off-topic)

Football's financial scandals of the 1960s

Wayne Rooney and the curse of the Plymouth calendar

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