I thought you’d like to know I’ve just donated to www.trussell.org.uk/support-us, in large part by way of appreciation of the entertainment you’ve given me over the past few years with your superb video assemblages. I encourage your other followers on BlueSky and X to do the same.💪

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @theguardian.com 🛼🛼 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

He’s a real threat from deep

An absolute honour to be shortlisted in the Football Book of the Year category at the @sportsbookawards.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone at @headlinebooks.bsky.social for bringing my 20-year obsession with the language of football to life, I loved writing this book. geni.us/ExtraTimeBec...

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST Our latest 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 guest is the Chris Wilder catchphrase obsessive, long-range goalkeeper distribution fetishist, FA Cup draw conservationist, @trusselluk.bsky.social charity ace and fellow football-linguistic GENIUS... @bryansgunn.bsky.social

Hunger has no place off the pitch. ⚽️ And together, we can relegate hunger to history. We're asking football clubs, fans, and players to help us end hunger in the UK. Sign for Trussell FC ⤵️ www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/f...

On the pitch, you need that hunger…

Got out of jail (part 1)

Push comes to shove, the best album ever.

From this day in 1997: When you’ve got your wedding in the morning, but Coventry vs West Ham at 3pm…

Mordor. Tough place to go

as the late economist Allen Sanderson put it: “if you want to inject money into the local economy, it would be better to drop it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark”. column on the facts and the fictions of New Trafford www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Today marks 33 years since of one of the most bizarre goals of the 1991/92 season at Maine Road. Here Luton keeper Steve Sutton thinks an offside has been given and kicks the ball straight to David White, who can’t believe his luck. Play to the whistle.

They can’t park the bus

Transfer deadline day - 1994 Back when you could sign players at anytime up to the end of March. No transfer windows. No dedicated TV coverage. No bright yellow banners. Just clubs quietly going about their business, and the way to find out was good old Ceefax. Simpler times.

He makes himself big

The Super Eagles 'Ecstasy & Agony' - Nigeria's golden generation in the 1990s Covers - Africa and the World Cup - Nigerian politics - AFCON 90, 92, 94 & 2000 - USA 94 - Atlanta 1996 - France 98 - Sydney 2000 👇 80s90sfootball.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/t...

Ron Atkinson with his 8 new signings for Aston Villa in the summer of 1991. So sad to think that half of these players are no longer with us. ❤️

This isn’t Sean Dyche’s first rodeo

Got the nod

Hearing Moyes back at Everton, gives me an excuse to repost this belter by @bryansgunn.bsky.social enjoy! bsky.app/profile/brya...

It’s 27 years to the day since Kenny Dalglish was on Newsnight to explain Newcastle Utd’s controversial wish to play their away FA Cup 4th round tie with Stevenage elsewhere. And Jeremy Paxman gave King Kenny quite the introduction…

Last shout for this week’s cartoon: www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Brian Moore & Ian St. John commentating for ITV at Highbury - January 1986. Two legends of the game.

To celebrate joining Bluesky, here's the most joyful cricket video of 2024:

Ron Atkinson's coat on The Big Match Revisited is a thing of beauty. #MUFC

Bryan Gunn 61 today Norwich City legend, who also played for Aberdeen, Hibernian & won 6 caps for Scotland Excellent goalkeeper

When you confuse Christmas with Easter

My brother loved Preston North End. Deepdale is where he made many happy memories: with me, with his friends, with strangers. Cheering goals. Celebrating victories. Then, ten years ago today, he died by suicide. This is his story. youtu.be/1DIGtU19a8Q?...

Very sad news this morning regarding George Eastham, who has passed away at the age of 88. We're proud to look after George's shirt from his time as part of England's World Cup-winning squad.

I absolutely love this photo of these broadcasting legends in their club shirts. (L-R) Brian Moore, Bob Wilson, Alan Parry; John Helm, Jim Rosenthal, Peter Brackley. What a squad of presenters and commentators ITV had in the mid-90s. 🎙️❤️

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

Finally got around to reading this and it’s the best football book I’ve read in ages.

Pour yourself a glass of mulled Ineos and read this week’s cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Massive Boost

Airdrie vs Falkirk - 1989. Long punt from the keeper. Hilarious defending. Fantastic ball boy.

"steven gerrard grimaces in joyless saudi slide into sporting irrelevance" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Each day on PL there is one main crisis club. The goal is to never be it

This image should‘ve been the magnum opus of late stage malarky on social media. Just as twitter lost its charm and the football community fragmented, this should have been the banter era’s last hurrah. A burly man striking a sassy pose. Tragically he has backed up the sass, for now. We live in hope

oh my

Saturday mornings in the 90s. 🇮🇹

From this weekend, all errant passes out from the back by tactically exposed, hapless goalkeepers can officially be described as "an early Christmas present". In that spirit, please buy my books on the language of football and how it's influenced us all... 🎄 www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Adam-...

High octane stuff

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES POD The Listeners' MHD Your loves & hates: Sunday League free-kick decoys, the olé threshold, picking the fairest 5-a-side teams, the meaning of “decimated", mistimed minute’s applauses and the walls of Powerleague @cdeccleshare.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

29 years ago today: Aston Villa v QPR in the Coca-Cola Cup. Here Tommy Johnson stupidly kicks out at Ray Wilkins, but the 39-year-old takes the sting out of the situation by shaking his hand and telling the ref it’s no big deal. Lovely stuff from Butch.

It's a crowded marketplace but is there a gap in the market for a pod of "mature gentlemen" talking about the Celtic? The only xG we are interested in is expected Gout so there's none of that nonsense. Have a listen, if it's for you tell people, if not, keep it to yourself, no one likes a grass

just a personal view but I don't like the trend of post-match interviews with the managers and the pundits together. Don't think it works: boring interviews and the pundits don't want to criticise him before/after. Get the lad Patrick Davison doing it. Interviewing is a proper (and rare!) skill.

For those who didn’t know, David Platt is my all-time favourite player. A few years ago, I wrote this article looking back on his career. David was actually sent the piece and got in touch to thank me for writing it. A real personal highlight. Enjoy! stusfootballflashbacks.com/2020/07/23/c...