I’ve just finished the last mouthful of the most amazing breakfast I’ve ever eaten. Genuinely. Eggs Benedict, with a juicy tomato and rocket salad on the side, accompanied by the most flavoursome dressing you can imagine. I’m in Colombo, Sri Lanka, staring out across...
It goes without saying that the decision to relocate to Falmer has completely transformed the fortunes of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club – the Seagulls now own a state-of-the-art stadium, have one of the game’s most gifted young managers at the helm, and...
I don’t believe in fate, divine intervention or any other codswallop that suggests our lives are pre-determined in any way. However, as the rain lashed down on a typically British July morning, something told me to switch off the TV, fire up my laptop and check my...
Now that the transfer window has shut for another few months, it’s time to draw breath and ‘celebrate’ some of the biggest, big money transfer flops 10) STEVE DALEY (Wolves to Manchester City, £1.437m, 1979) If you think Manchester City splashing megabucks on average...
June would seem like a strange time of year to reflect wistfully on the ups and downs of the previous 12 months, but working in the football industry has convinced my body clock that the year is coming to an end. I’m not exactly craving pigs in blankets and sherry...
The Pigeon Detectives’ frontman and staunch Leeds supporter Matt Bowman talks Radebe, Yeboah, fishtanks and being starstruck by Simon Grayson… Why do you support Leeds, Matt? “I’m from Middlesbrough, but we moved to Leeds when I was five. My schoolmates were all Leeds...
Two years ago when Amir Khan had his senses scrambled in less than a minute by Breidis Prescott at Manchester’s MEN Arena, I was punching the air with delight. Khan had been building himself up as the second coming of ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard, despite having faced...