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• The Sands of Time

  

  On the 2nd June 1978 history was made at the Football League’s Annual General Meeting held at the Café Royal in London.  Every year the clubs got to vote on... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Impishly Good Friday

  

  Today’s attendance is……9,011. Thank you for your attendance”You’d be forgiven for thinking I was spending my Good Friday watch a game in English Football... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Walking Football

  

  Growing up I pleaded with my Dad to buy every house we saw for sale on our walk from the car parked near Plaistow tube station to The Boleyn Ground.  Wouldn’t i... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• More (I)FABulous Law Changes on Their Way

  If yesterday’s Premier League games tells us anything about the state of the game today its that referees get big decisions wrong from time to time. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Speaking out of Turn

  

  More through necessity than anything else, I still have the pleasure of holding the microphone at The Dripping Pan for every home game I attend. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Unreal Situation of Counterfeiting in Football

  Last year saw the launch of the BBC’s annual Cost of Football survey which once again leads to lots of back-slapping, table thumping and general head... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Economic Theory Explained by Football 22 – The Public Choice Theory

  It’s quite probable that when James M Buchanan Jnr created is Public Choice Theory he didn’t expect to win a Nobel Prize.  But that’s what he did. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Dorking Hell

  

  There’s defeats and then there are last-minute, defence lapse after you’ve been on top for 89 minutes 55 seconds sort of defeats.  Yesterday’s game at Dorking... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Is the Chinese Cash a Bad Thing for English Football?

  So it is official.  World football has gone mad.  Oscar’s transfer to Chinese side Shanghai SIPG ratified on the 1st January meaning he left these shores to... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Notes from the Main Stand

  

  We’ve got a relatively settled routine as to how we prepare for home games.  At around 2.15pm (for a 3pm kick off) we will get the first sight of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Master of None

  

  What happens when you get a bit lippy and suggest to one of your colleagues that their job on a match day was “easy”? It seemed I was just about to find out... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• 2016 – A Year in Football

  

  So that was 2016.  A year most will remember for famous people dying, although the stats will show that no more than a normal year (our love of Social Media... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Community Action

  

  “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”Many people consider Bill Shankly to be one of the... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Who Benefits from Stadium Naming Rights?

  There’s a fantastic new book that’s been published by Leon Gladwell called “Beyond the turnstile” which is full of oustanding pictures from his quest to... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Economic Theory Explained by Football 21 – The Kaldor-Hicks Theorem

  It doesn’t matter what the decision is, someone somewhere will be worse off.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a political decision, an economic decision or a referee’... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Economic Theory Explained by Football 20 – The Paradox of Choice

  In 2004 American psychologist and Philadelphia Union fan Barry Schwartz published his book called The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less where he argued that... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Have the Cosmos Reached the Limit of Their Universe?

  

  For those who love a random fact, if each of the five boroughs of New York City were a separate city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Decisions in Nobody’s Interest

  

  Last Saturday Lewes looked to record their sixth consecutive league win.  These are heady times for us Rooks fans, with many of us never experiencing the... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Do Premier League Clubs Need Fans at All?

  The news that Chelsea have signed a new kit deal with Nike for a reported £60 million A SEASON once again puts into perspective how money is dominating the... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Football Tourist 2: The Second Half

  

  Football is the world’s game. Wherever you are on earth there will be a group of players, a ball and a pitch. Stuart Fuller has set out to find as many as... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 SOCCER, SPORTS