I love being a lower league football fan. I love the atmosphere and the sense of community you get from supporting your local club. I love that my club needs my support as much as I need my weekly shot of football. You don’t really get that in the Premiership, if you don’t go then [...]

The sports minister, Hugh Robertson, has said the government will consider the possibility of reintroducing terraces in the top two tiers of the football league, 21 years after Lord Justice Taylor recommended them outlawed. This is a very welcome development in football. Fans across the county have been calling out for standing areas to be [...]

The World Cup is due to start in a few hours and since it hasn’t quite started yet I can remain objective about England’s chances, for the next few hours at least. Once it starts that all goes out of the window and I become as deluded as the next person. Seriously ask me Saturday [...]

I have a confession to make to my footballing friends, I am slowly starting to like the Arsenal manager Arsene Wegner. He will always be a terrible loser, blind when it comes to his players’ misgivings and part of the ever increasing foreign influence on our football league but these are things to be discussed round a wooden table [...]