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Welcome to the Sunday edition of Sniffer Nose, a punchier version of your favourite occasional column. This week we do a “Circus” special.
Retiring from the ring?
Well I had to start with my club Leeds United because they have been the club most associated with being a “circus” for the best part of a decade. Have [...]

In this weeks column Clarkeonenil’s Monday writer Graeme Garvey gives his own perspective on our football lords and master’s.
It is heartening to see the F.A.’s moral outrage in the ‘John Terry’s affair’ Affair. They acted courageously and decisively, quickly replacing sex-cheat Terry as England captain with drug-cheat Rio Ferdinand. For that we must all be [...]

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.
History and legend.
It is over; we had 4 rounds of the greatest cup competition in the world, 6 dates with the television cameras and a couple of rain-forest’s worth of press coverage. [...]

Welcome to a new regular column from an old favourite. The Original Grumpy Old Man (OGOM). This week OGOM looks at the England side going to South Africa (borrowing a bit from an earlier article).
The nearer the 2010 World Cup tournament gets the more anxious about how England will perform I get. Notwithstanding half the [...]

Welcome to the Sunday edition of Sniffer Nose, a punchier version of your favourite occasional column.
Once is enough.
Yesterday I added another game to the endless list from the last 3 seasons that I call “Third Division Dirge” by attending Brentford verses Leeds United. The dirge collection is a series of games so mind-numbingly rubbish that [...]