Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
It feels a bit odd to be saying so before St Patrick’s Day, but this season has reached what Sir Alex Ferguson called ‘squeaky bum time’. In fact, for our visitors this afternoon, this is quite literally a must-win game. The maths is simple; Kendal Town arrive at the...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
Regular readers of this column will be aware that I am, to put it bluntly, a massive nerd. As such, I take an interest in the history of football and of the club, particularly on the statistical side. When Jed Ward joined recently from Bristol Rovers, I started to...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
On Thursday lunchtime, Northern League club Billingham Synthonia tweeted out a statement that indicated that they needed to raise £10,000 in order to see out this season after the sponsor / benefactor who had been funding the club walked away. Like us here at Cables,...
Mar 25, 2022 | The Main Blog
This week’s instalment of Reading the Game is The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin. If you’ve been following the series, you’ll have already noticed that The Accidental Footballer is a bit of an outlier because it’s an autobiography, which isn’t the kind of football...
Mar 18, 2022 | The Main Blog
If there’s any sort of theme to the books I’ve reviewed in the Reading the Game, it’s that I look for the stories that don’t necessarily make the headlines. Even where I’ve chosen to read about a ‘big’ club, I’ve been much more likely to either avoid the ‘super clubs’...
Feb 25, 2022 | The Main Blog
Spend a reasonable amount of time on this site and you’ll know that non-League football is something I’m incredibly passionate about, alongside my special interest in the game all over the world. However, like many football fans, I do also follow a professional club...
Feb 17, 2022 | The Main Blog
For the second time, Reading the Game marks a Champions League match week by exploring the history of the European Cup and specifically The Undisputed Champions of Europe by Steven Scragg. To be honest, it feels a bit odd that the final book of Scragg’s trilogy...
Feb 12, 2022 | The Main Blog
Last week, Reading the Game went Down Under as we examined a history of Australia’s National Soccer League. Continuing the international theme, today we look at Titans of the Teardrop Isle by Seth Burkett. I came to Titans of the Teardrop Isle with a certain knowledge...
Feb 4, 2022 | The Main Blog
Over the last few episodes of Reading the Game, there’s been a bit of a ‘globetrotting’ theme. My latest book review continues in that vein, in so far as we’re looking at The Death and Life of Australian Soccer by Joe Gorman. This was another book that I discovered by...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing, The Main Blog
I don’t watch much television, but I listen to a lot of podcasts. This is partly because I’ve always commuted to and from work and/or the football clubs I’ve been part of via public transport and I find bus and train journeys much easier to cope with while wearing...
