It mattered that some early-season Saturday a Butcher’s shop would close at twelve, and a factory klaxon release a greased and grimed assembly line to their bicycles, Lambrettas and Reliant Robins. It mattered that the toast was buttered and the tea was strong enough to stand a goalpost in, and that the radiogram played Orange […]

Through the dark, through the storm, through the wind and rain, the forty thousand gathered here, the millions on their home terrain; players, staff, supporters help the Families through their Sheffield pain. What we do is what we’ve done and what we’ll do again: raise our voices in the wind, praise our lost ones through […]

Two ways to wear your heart: on your sleeve or on your scarf. Ten years old, sitting on the stanchions of the Kop. Around my waist, my father’s arms, around my neck a knitted scarf, my Mother’s woolen pearls: Slater Byrne Moran Twentyman Leishman Arrowsmith Morrisey Melia A’Court Liddell Hickson Hunt My heroes stitched red-on-white […]

fantasy football- Beckham bends it like Houghton (in your dreams, David)

brain is boggled by group table permutations will have to wake kids