Posted by: JackP on May 11th, 2008
I just thought I’d share with you some tales of my sporting prowess. Remember me mentioning the inter-departmental five a side team?
Well, just look at the trophy I got presented with!
I was presented with this trophy for “services to goalkeeping”, and also picked up another medal. Not bad, eh?
The exact award reads — and I […]
Read: Up For The Cup »
Posted by: JackP on May 4th, 2008
Earlier on in the season, I mentioned Gateshead FC: I could get used to this, in reference to the fact that my local non-league club had won their first seven games of the season, and were flying towards promotion from the Unibond Premier League to the Blue Square North.
(For those of you not up on […]
Read: Chasing Promotion »
Posted by: JackP on April 23rd, 2008
Okay, about six weeks ago I said that Newcastle Will Stay Up. Probably, and showed how I thought the bottom 6 of the Premiership table would look by the end of the season.
My predictions for the bottom 6 were, I think it’s fair to say, wrong. For a start, Bolton and Newcastle already have more […]
Read: End Of A Season »
Posted by: JackP on March 23rd, 2008
According to my Premiership Predictions (based partly on the assumption we’re not going to win anything away from home), we were going to be in a bit of a relegation battle. However, my calculations using the BBC’s Premiership Predictor, show that we’ll stay up, but it’ll be a close-run thing, and if we hadn’t won […]
Posted by: JackP on February 12th, 2008
Okay, some of you might remember that a few weeks ago I mentioned a hypothetical situation involving a 5-a-side team which lost 22-0.
Well, after that game, they got a proper goalkeeper, and lost the next match 5-1 before winning their third 6-4. Unfortunately, this hypothetical team’s entirely hypothetical goalkeeper then picked up rather too many […]
Read: 5-a-side jargon busting »
Posted by: JackP on February 9th, 2008
So the 20 English Premier League clubs have agreed to explore a proposal to extend the season to 39 games, with the extra game being played in five cities around the world who want to bid for the event.
It’s a ludicrous idea, and shows that Premier bosses don’t understand their teams fans. We don’t […]
Read: No to Gam£ 39 »
Posted by: JackP on February 6th, 2008
It isn’t every day you have a conversation with a gentleman who scored 74 league goals, and won an FA Cup and a Cup Winners Cup medal, and today was no exception.
Read: Rock On, Tommy »
Posted by: JackP on January 21st, 2008
Just imagine a purely hypothetical scenario where some of your colleagues are returning to work after their first game in a new five-a-side football league for employees of your organisation. Innocently, you ask how they got on, only to be met with rather flinty looks and the information that they had managed to lose by […]
Posted by: JackP on January 9th, 2008
aka “Taxi for Allardyce?”
I’ve watched Newcastle play a lot of crap football over the years. In fact, mostly, I’ve watched Newcastle play crap football — badly — over the years, with a couple of exceptions during the Keegan and Robson eras, so why should I expect any better?
Firstly, the fact that the team hasn’t historically […]
Read: The Balding Sword Of Damocles »
Posted by: JackP on December 23rd, 2007
Paul Ince has said there is “absolutely no chance” of him working under new England manager Fabio Capello.Daily Express
Sorry Paul — I didn’t think anyone had actually asked you…
But then again, I was always of a belief that players and managers had to earn respect. You don’t get called “The Guv’nor” simply because you […]
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