Footballbits and pieces

England defender ‘C’ashley Cole is in a race against time to be fit for Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad after breaking an ankle in the Premier League defeat by Everton on Wednesday
The Chelsea left-back is expected to be out for around three months and Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti said he “did not know” if Cole [...]

Looks like the weather has got the better of this weekend’s football, just like it managed to stop the blogging this week..
Half of the weekend’s Premier League programme succumbed to the snow yesterday amid concerns that not enough effort was being made to keep some matches on.
Fulham, Sunderland and Burnley announced that todays games have [...]

The record for the longest 100% start to a season is currently held by Reading who racked 13 consecutive wins at the start of the 1985/6 season with wins over Blackpool (1-0), Plymouth (1-0), Bristol Rovers (3-2), Cardiff (3-1), Walsall (2-1), Rotherham (2-1), Brentford (2-1), Swansea (2-0), Doncaster (1-0), Chesterfield (4-2), Bolton (1-0), Newport (2-0) [...]

How many times have you heard the old saying that such and such a person ‘eats, drinks and sleeps’ football?
We all know the kind of person the saying was coined for, the supporter who thinks and talks about nothing else apart from his favourite team from the moment he awakes until the moment he goes [...]

New in stock, just right for a night in with the boys (or the girls!)
Official Waddingtons team playing cards – only £4.99 a set