Saha From The Madding Crowd

Thanks, glad you liked it - it was a really enjoya...

2012-02-16T16:09:25.904Z

Thanks, glad you liked it - it was a really enjoyable article to research.

great reead thanks, my grandad remembers watching ...

2012-01-27T00:25:04.701Z

great reead thanks, my grandad remembers watching Aldecoa play once

Thanks for reading, Juliet, and cheers for the lin...

2011-08-14T19:05:56.596+01:00

Thanks for reading, Juliet, and cheers for the link too. I wasn't aware of Lezama. I could imagine a film telling the stories of all three men, if all football films (bar Gregory's Girl) weren't hopeless.

Interesting stuff. There was another Basque refuge...

2011-08-08T15:37:45.338+01:00

Interesting stuff. There was another Basque refugee who played in England, and was capped by Spain after he returned - Raimundo Perez Lezama, who signed for Southampton but never played a League game due to the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimundo_Perez_Lezama

I still think the Arsenal-Manu rivaly is bigger th...

2011-06-20T22:08:26.067+01:00

I still think the Arsenal-Manu rivaly is bigger than any in the past 20 years. Two great teams, packed with great individuals, and Keane / Viera totally embodied that. Reminds me of better times :)

Hedkandiman (AFC)

Excellent article. Well put together; draws the re...

2011-06-20T19:41:00.962+01:00

Excellent article. Well put together; draws the reader in and I found myself nodding from start to finish

Cheers for reading, Joe. The caricature label cert...

2011-06-20T18:58:39.766+01:00

Cheers for reading, Joe. The caricature label certainly applied to Keane in his latter days at United, I believe, when sounding-off became his default setting and he became detrimental to the team. The Highbury spat in 2005 between him and Vieira was also pure pantomime.

Wonderful article coming from a Manchester City fa...

2011-06-20T17:13:14.774+01:00

Wonderful article coming from a Manchester City fan. Very well written and thought provoking. Not too sure on Vieira becoming a 'caricature' though but each to their own fair opinion.

Thanks so much for your comments Michael. The Norw...

2011-05-09T01:27:16.586+01:00

Thanks so much for your comments Michael. The Norwich Pink Un is an institution, though sadly one now only available online. I remember my pride at seeing my name in the old-fashioned print version on a few occasions thanks to my goalscoring exploits in the North-East Norfolk junior league (19 goals in the 1995/96 season...).

Just as one of your sons fell under Arsenal's spell, and

Having seen the sub-title of the blog, I read the ...

2011-05-08T06:18:25.105+01:00

Having seen the sub-title of the blog, I read the article with interest, not least because my own attachment to Norwich City started during the period I was writing a PhD at UEA. Having not resided in the UK before then, and now living near Sherborne in southern Somerset (not my choice), I find it interesting that I now regard Norwich as my 'home' city in the UK (even though my father

I think it's all in the shade of purple. Real ...

2011-04-14T12:09:07.817+01:00

I think it's all in the shade of purple. Real were sporting a particularly fetching number last night. Spurs' was one of those figure-hugging Kappa designs, I recall, which always divide opinion.

They are amazing floodlights. I honestly got such a tingle just being there. You can't often say that about a place that looks like waste ground from the approach.

I like purple for home kits but am not so keen on ...

2011-04-13T18:12:13.775+01:00

I like purple for home kits but am not so keen on it for away ones - I seem to remember Spurs sporting an especially lurid version some time ago. Some great photos Will. Those Nep Stadium floodlights always stir me.

Football Against the Enemy would've been my nu...

2011-03-24T18:32:47.324Z

Football Against the Enemy would've been my number 11. It's a long time since I read it, actually. Were I to pick it up again then it might take the place of Kuper's more recent book.

Good choices Will and Inverting the Pyramid
2011-03-22T15:58:00.164Z
Good choices Will and Inverting the Pyramid is peerless. I like Simon Kuper's Football against the Enemy but feel Soccernomics has serious flaws - my day job working for an economics publisher has engendered in me a real dislike for the smugness of neoclassical thinking as touched upon in