The Half-Time team talk that had to be good to turn what looked like certain defeat around. I was once a youth team manager of Tring Tornadoes U/16s we had led the league the whole season undefeated but we had another local side hot on our heels. They had lost one match at our ground […]

Touchline shouting, that’s all I ever hear, I’m so confused and filled with fear. I’m only ten years old and football should be fun, But with all this noise I don’t know which way to run. “Get back in defence!” my manager shouts. Dad shouts, “Get up front and deal with these louts!” Loud mouth […]

Favourites for the drop, Caught them on the hop. Bolton Wanderers is the name; We know how to play the premier game Playing fancy clubs with fancy names. To the Trotters it’s all the same. Our winning formation 3-5-1-1 Got us promoted from Div 1 We have taken our third scalp in a row Our […]

Here comes Tubby Jones Bringing out the cones. ‘Will Tubby be playing today?’ His mother said. ‘It all depends on how much he’s been fed!’ I felt such a nit, When I told her he wasn’t fit. ‘I would love to play him in a game, If the other lads didn’t hold him to blame.’ […]

I am not your modern day footballer who collects his wages in a hay loader … from the Premier League pay loader; aided by Sky TV and now BT money bag dream makers; so happy to pay ‘the fakers and the takers’ on and off the field. and so happy to take hard earned brass […]