If you leave me now ...

I suppose it had to come – the phone call that asked: “You seen Sky Sports? The bookies reckon Lambert’s on his way to Burnley.” The bookies, we need no reminding, don’t often get it wrong. Remember the saga of Peter Grant, who was a back-marker in the...

Walsall, this stinks. And I don't mean your braziers

Walsall must think Paul Lambert has some pretty impressive powers. Either that or they’re just scraping around looking for excuses for their failure to ensure their pitch wasn’t playable last weekend. The west Midland club have accused the City boss...

All change at Leeds

Might not have made it to Norwich United v Wisbech last Saturday – a visitation led by my sister prevented me missing what I believe could be described as the perfect example of a 0-0 bore draw. However, I was at Elland Road on Monday. Wouldn’t have...

Stand and deliver

Friday, October 9, 2009 Dear diary, Had a decent trip north. Stopped at a well-known eaterie on the way – one that has been redesigned, revamped, given new and interesting toilet smells and generally “reddened up” by a famous chef and which should have...

Are you taking the .....?

For blog read bog. Or acrid, smelly, disgusting, Gillingham bog. Not the ground. Not the town. Just the bog. The one thing about going to away games is that you can sit and see the fans and somehow think you are one of them, one of the travelling army...

A word in your ear, Mr Lambert

Here is the forecast: it’s going to be busy at the end of November, beginning of December – except on the days when City are playing. Why? Because I’ve booked time off before my holiday entitlement vaporises on December 31. And when I have time off things...

Foiled by the A-Z of footy

Here’s a test: if you subscribe to Sky TV just, for a night, pretend you don’t. Then you’ll know how the great unwashed feel. The test is best done on a day when there are plenty of football fixtures. Like last Monday when there were 10 Carling Cup...

Pressing questions about food

The conversation is always the same on the way back from away matches and goes a little like this: “So what were the press facilities like – did they feed you?” The questioner is EDP columnist Steve Gedge, who somehow manages to squeeze that long frame...

The Muppet Show ...

Well blogger me. They’ve gone and given me another corner of the web. So what’s in here then? It’s a dusty corner, to be sure (as one or two thousand managers have been known to say at regular intervals), with a bit of muck to be raked and if we’re lucky...