LONDON CALLING: WAY AYE MAGPIE
The Unicorn, The Griffin & The Winston Bogarde all examples of mythical beasts that don’t exist, however none of these are as rare as Chelsea playing at a respectable time on a Saturday but alas this eclipsical event will return to SW6 this very weekend when the Barcodes of Newcastle visit Stamford Bridge. I decided [...]
Over the last week or so I have been collecting some opinion from the Smoggies in the currently buoyant part of Tyneside, Middlesbrough. Optimism isn’t normally something that emits from this normally drab and uninspiring part of country but I have noticed a turn of events in the last few months. Ever since the arrival [...]
Continue reading …After what seems like an eternity, Premiership football is back on the menu at Stamford Bridge, with Porstmouth their first guests in what the 42,000 crowd on Saturday will hope is a feast of entertainment. To get the Pompey view for the season opener, I caught up with a mate of mine, and a top [...]
Continue reading …My travels this week have taken me up, through the smog, to seek out Robert Nichols (no relation to the ‘great’ Mark!), who’s a leading light behind superior Middlesborough website fly me to the moon – (http://www.fmttmboro.com). Wasting little time for introductions and other such niceties, I asked him for his thoughts ahead of this [...]
Continue reading …Earlier today I took a trip to the grim outreaches of Holloway, the most recent in a string of homes for our nomadic friends and London rivals Arsenal. Surveying the rubbish dump now known as the Emirates Stadium I came across Darren Bowser, Editor & Founder of www.arsenal-land.co.uk and took the opportunity to quiz him [...]
Continue reading …Someone told me that we’d played Tottenham twice before this season, but strangely enough I can only remember a 2-0 victory at the Bridge in January. I do have a vague recollection of a bunch of players in Blue, who didn’t in any way resemble a professional football team, let alone one as successful and [...]
Continue reading …For another view of our upcoming Premier League game v Sunderland, I took the time to meet up with the mysterious “Craig” of www.BlackCatChat.net. Whilst wondering if superstition was all that Sunderland fan’s have to base their hope of survival amongst the big boys on, I managed to focus for long enough to ask him [...]
Continue reading …I caught up with Keith Chapman, who writes for Sunderland AFC’s Official Matchday Programme “Red and White” and official club magazine Legion of Light. For his sins, the man a followed Sunderland for 20 years and also a has been a season ticket holder since 1990. Though I struggled to hear him above the din [...]
Continue reading …Sunday see’s the club making its third trip to Wembley in the last 10 months, where, in a repeat of the 1967 FA Cup Final, Spurs are our opponents. Back then, our young side were outclassed by a Tottenham side containing two former Chelsea greats in Greaves and Venables. 2008 and we go into the [...]
Continue reading …Such is the keenness amongst the Huddersfield supporting masses, that I’ve been in the unusual position of being contacted myself by a couple of supporters. One is Ben, from www.datm.co.uk who’s desperate to tell us how much he’s looking forward to his team’s defeat tomorrow. The other is Danny from www.htfc-world.com who also kindly volunteered [...]
Continue reading …Not being able to quite bring myself to actually speak to a Scouser of the red persuasion, I took the opportunity to get in touch with an old friend & former colleague, who although he’s now returned across the water, keeps a beady eye on developments at his club & makes the most of the [...]
Continue reading …It’s a transatlantic journey for your “North Stand” correspondent this week as we venture to the USA to meet with John Baker, the brains behind www.BluesMuse.Com, the superior Birmingham City website. What a pleasant surprise it was to speak to a Brum supporter without a whiny midlands accent! Once I’d finally arrived, delayed by the [...]
Continue reading …Unusually for “View from the North Stand”, I’m not about to spin you some elaborate charade to get you to believe that I spend every waking minute charging up and down the country looking for appropriately attired supporters of our near future opponents and thrusting a microphone in their faces. This time I put my questions [...]
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