August, that fantastic yet strange month of the football calendar when the domestic leagues get going once again, yet the transfer window stays open and all of the rumour, misinformation and general associated nonsense continues right the way up to deadline day, which this year comes a full 3 weeks and 3 matches into the […]
The self-styled greatest league in the world returned last weekend with the usual hyperbolic hoopla; although for those of us forced to enjoy a far-from-traditional Friday evening start to the season, there was a more than slightly surreal feeling to the proceedings. In all fairness to the relentless Premier League PR/ excitement machine, the football […]
After what is often described as ‘the longest 2 months of the year’ for us football obsessives, it is time to get back into the more familiar way of spending our time; for the next 10 months (actually 11 if we factor in the World Cup!) it will be back to submersing ourselves in the […]
In what should probably more accurately be referred to as ‘a summer with slightly less football than usual’, immediately after our return from a weekend in Stavanger in which we had taken in two games in a weekend; Mrs Football Nerd and I were off to the inaugural Star Sixes tournament over at the ‘Arena […]
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