Who knew that deep in the hearts of Premier League club owners lay a touching and purportedly genuine concern for the clubs in the lower tiers of English football? A mere matter of weeks after Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden firmly planted the ball in their court, few of us realised that the altruistic, all-caring clubs […]
I ended last week’s post wondering how many points Orient might take from two tricky-looking fixtures away from home in the space of just four days (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Like Trump, Orient may have beaten Coronavirus… for now.); while I am far from being apoplectic, I do feel some justification in being a little bit […]
It had to be Orient didn’t it? If any EFL squad was going to have a significant number of their players test positive for Covid-19, causing the cancellation of a glamour League Cup tie against Premier League opponents and the postponement of their third league game of the season, you would have got short odds […]
Another week and another blog post that by necessity has to focus on the ongoing impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, the restrictions on football fans being able to return to stadiums (Spoiler Alert: not anytime soon!) and the impact that this increasingly looks like having on football. However, let’s start with the relatively good news, […]
Increasingly during the ongoing and now worsening Coronavirus pandemic, every time I sit down to write about football it has to involve more and more consideration and thought to the impact of the subsequent lockdown and the restriction on fans being able to attend matches on the future of the game. Last week I reflected […]
So football’s back once again, but as yet we still have some weeks to wait before we can even countenance a return for fans even in limited numbers, although in an encouraging move the English Football League (EFL) has been permitted to allow the return of up to 1,000 fans into pilot matches starting from […]
As much as we have all tried to make the best of it, consoling ourselves that we are at least able to get our football fix after so long away, even if it is on TV with the only atmosphere the piped-in crowd noise that at best makes it sound like something approaching the real […]
One of, if not the most frustrating things about the suspension of football due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown of life as we once knew it, is perhaps the uncertainty of what football might look like when (if?) it comes back. This is especially true for those of us who are used […]
