Clarke one nil

In this weeks Teenage Kicks In our excited young writer Darragh Mullen looks forward to Sunday.
Two articles ago I finished with the statement that I would not be going to Old Trafford as planned because it was far too expensive but having a 7 year old in my house paid dividends this Christmas as Santa [...]

This is Clarkeonenil’s regular comment column, cutting through the various passing issues of football and getting to the core principle in the shortest time.
Jermaine Beckford.
Well not so much the footballer than the goal-scorer. The problem with the tedious, never ending debate around how good or average Jermaine Beckford is lies with how it polarises [...]

Another day, another Beckford story….note the comments on “contact” and “Grayson resigned to losing him”
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/4822039.Beckford_tops_Hughton___s_wanted_list/
I find regional papers slightly more reliable than national on transfer stories (except the YEP of course) so I give this a 6.5 credability rating. As always its about amounts. More than £2.5m, snap there hands off.

In this weeks column Clarkeonenil’s Monday columnist Graeme Garvey gets a bit giddy (too much time in Woodies me thinks – Ed).
Will Saturday’s 3-1 win over Hartlepool be our last home game against them in the league? With all due respect, I hope so. We managed well enough never to play them in the league [...]

Welcome to the Sunday edition of Sniffer Nose, a punchier version of your favourite occasional column.
Do it on the big stage.
So one week on and the Beckford fan club are purring again. I’ll try to be charitable, it was up to Beckford to recover from his stupidity and giving a team assisting performance on top [...]