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 […]
Yet more technology controversy. 100 days after Coronavirus pandemic-enforced lockdown, the Premier League returned but it wasn’t the same as we remember it. After a minute’s silence to remember those who have sadly fallen victim to this unprecedented and devastating virus, referee Michael Oliver sounded his whistle to signal the fulfilment of Project Restart then […]
So here we are then, after a hiatus of just over three (very long!) months, assuming nothing goes dramatically wrong between now and 6pm this evening when Aston Villa are due to get the Premier League back underway with their clash with Sheffield United, English football is back. It will still be football but based […]
It may have been surreal in the extreme with no fans, no atmosphere, substitutes socially distancing and wearing masks but this weekend after two very long months we finally got football back, or at least something that resembled the football we used to know and love. Of course, we all knew that if anyone could […]
Mrs Football Nerd and I desperately miss Orient, most of all our usual match day routine of heading up to the Leyton Star as early as is justifiable without being painted as the alcoholics that we probably are (although admittedly the Coronavirus lockdown and the apparent response of British society to drink through it suggests […]
Cards on the table time here: for all the enjoyment to be had in delving into the retro football archives and reminiscing in football nostalgia, I truly and deeply miss football. The way that it neatly gives you an almost parallel reality to normal life (whatever that means at the moment!) and gives us football […]
First Daniel Levy and Tottenham caused ructions across not only the sporting world but also the wider scale British media when they became the first club brave/ wise/ foolish enough (please delete as appropriate!) to announce that they were going to cut the salaries of all non-playing staff by 20% and put them on furlough […]
Football Nostalgia seems to be the Way Forward. Given the unique circumstances in which we all find ourselves, confined to our homes except for the essential activities of shopping for provisions and exercising; it seems wrong to bemoan the lack of football given the hardships and restrictions we are all facing for the greater good. […]
I wrote on this page last week that “Football cannot of course in any way be immune from the impact of the pandemic that we are all facing”, not exactly a Nostradamus-like profound prediction of how things could turn out, more a realisation of the inevitability that football could simply not just carry on oblivious […]
It was something of a throwaway line at the end of last week’s post: “Of course if the daily scaremongering about the potential impact of the coming of the apocalypse, or as it is more familiarly known: Coronavirus, is true to its word we could be facing a situation where we see the completion of […]
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