It so often begins in childhood going with your dad, collecting autographs in teenage years you go with mates eating pies and drinking halves Then you meet your missus and find the grass isn’t greener It just grows and needs mowing for indoors you need a vacuum cleaner Your wife wants you shopping or going […]

When your team scores, it’s amazing We all know that surge of feeling When Ipswich equalised against us A fan punched right through his ceiling He tweeted to show the damage by his fist He could see the funny side, a hole through plaster board Then the player offered to pay to fix it After […]

bless all City folk now suffering P.M.T. that’s pre-match tension two legs, extra time? the torture of penalties with Wembley waiting

You had your Liver Birds We had Canaries You had The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers The whole music scene in fact Including Cilla Black We had little transistor radios with a single earpiece To eavesdrop on your glorious echos You had two Cathedrals Well we could match that You had the best comedians We […]

No last minute shopping shops are deserted no miles of brake lights all traffic diverted no glitter or sparkle no mince pies or mulled wine a global crowd watches sport in exotic climes no room for a turkey in a fridge full of beer well that’s really no different to the rest of the year […]