By eleven goals to one, to be precise.
“It’s now the second most popular sport after football in our country.”
In his Christmas and New Year season review, The Gaffer probes cup glory, sacked managers, leadership fortunes, and the loyalty of Steve Gerrard.
And on 1st July 1916, men who went over the top on that first morning of the battle of the Somme kicked their precious footballs before them.
Whether in terms of ethnicity, class, education, age group or physical and mental norms, we are not, in practice, the integrated nation that we think we are
Plus: Marr again. Shot foxes. Unhatted rabbits. Bercow’s revenge. Sir Trevor Brooking’s posterior. And: thanks to Stuart in customer services, who made this column possible.
Greg Dyke’s career in football risks ending as ingloriously as it did at the BBC. John Whittingdale and his Select Committee should launch an enquiry.
Plus: The irresistible Andrew Kennedy. Labour’s Rochester & Strood failure. Where’s a) Mo Ansar? b) Helen Grant c) The Bow Group? In praise of Andrew Neil. And: Lots of bad language
It is claimed that one and a half million people play five a side football every week. Perhaps as many as four million play during the course of a year.
The FA’s proposals for 3G pitches are welcome. Now the Government must act on them.
Luis Figo, Sol Campbell, Mo Johnston, Denis Law – the Carswells and Recklesses of their day?
The legions of ConHome footy fans are eagerly focusing on this key issue: what impact will a ‘Yes/No’ vote have on the country’s historic football decline?
The departure of of Suarez from Liverpool is more understandable than that of Damian Green, Nick Hurd or Dominic Grieve.
It is time for ministers to run with the ball.
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is right that the current system is broken. But their proposals would not fix it.