Clarke one nil

As to be expected cartwheels are not the order of the day but neither is despondency.
http://www.loveleedshatebates.com/2009/12/statement-on-the-failure-of-the-football-league/
Personally I’d go further, why don’t we keep asking the club to confirm or deny whether its Bin Laden or Tiger Woods or Rupert Murdock or a 1000 other characters it is quite reasonable to speculate on (in the absence [...]

How can you be “fit and proper” if you are not prepared to be open and transparent?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/04/leeds-united-ownership-football-league
Pathetic.

Best laid plans, as some often say, can get wasted completely out of the blue. When your 68 year old mother calls you on a Friday night to tell you she is travelling 250 miles to appear on my doorstep between 1pm and 4pm, given the rationale behind this announcement my football plans (Chessington and [...]

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king (how little we understand how true that is in life these days). In football terms those clubs that have their act together, on the pitch, off the pitch, financially and media wise are so rare they shine like beacons (http://clarkeonenil.co.uk/football-through-a-hardened-glare/praising-the-also-ran). That leaves a cess-pit [...]

It has become one of those money imposed idiocies that real football, defined as the old divisions 2, 3 and 4, kick off the new season earlier than the bloated, stolen, rebranded division 1. 72 football clubs relighting the flames of hope amongst the most loyal and stoic of supporters.
As 2009-10 kicks into life the [...]