Footballbits and pieces

Are you going on holiday soon? Somewhere hot? Going to be spending quality time on the beach? Well you’ll to need a nice beach towel to lie on, so why not get one in your clubs colours and show who you support wherever you are. They’re not so bad for when you get out of [...]

A two-way debate about re-introducing standing room at English football grounds has raged since ever since all seater stadiums were introduced, and both sides of have strong, well developed arguments to back them up. However, the unfortunate reality is that much of the debate is rendered invalid by the simple maxim: money talks. Until fans [...]

Last night’s announcement that Gareth Bale has been named PFA Player of the Year was not a great surprise to many. Bale fought off competition from the likes of Charlie Adam, Rafael van der Vaart, Carlos Tevez and Nemanja Vidic to scoop the prestigious award, voted for the highest proportion of his fellow professionals. What [...]

Who would voluntarily choose to be a Sunday League referee? Meet Mo Awill Childhood is seemingly the defining factor in what position someone ends up spending the majority of their life playing the beautiful game in. The sprinter on the wing, the disciplinarian in the middle and the big lad will play at the back. These [...]

It must be love if you’re happy to play in these conditions. Welcome to the Southern Sunday Football League Barring the girlfriend of a player, no one was watching the game, the rain was lashing down on a drearily dark afternoon, the pitch was a few glasses of water short of a bog and the goal [...]