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But, I can’t even... As frustrating as it was, a draw having led 3-0 is still a freak result. I can’t remember the last time it happene...

The father of the bride at a wedding I once went to was heard to say ‘if a wedding made a marriage, I’d have spent more money on it’. Hop...

Spoiler: I'm not going to talk about Charlton or another decent point or Gavin Whyte's wonder-strike. Sometimes you just can...

I’m in Devon. It’s partly Michael Appleton’s fault. In his first terrible year, I was so bored, I started to form my exit strategy from f...

When we did our house up a few years ago, the plumber who came to sort something out opened a door in the loft and was confronted by a my...

The phrase 'get out of our club' or variations thereof have been bellowed at Karl Robinson more than once in the last week. It...

Joe Burnell won't demand many paragraphs in the history of Oxford United. So much so, I had to look up his name, and then again when ...

Football clubs have funny structures; at their most important point - the interface between the machine that funds the club and the machi...

I like the Premier League; I get all the arguments about the obscene amounts of money being thrown around and the effect foreigners have ...

It's easy to be drawn into the idea that the blame for a problem is everyone else's fault, or worse, that a problem is so normal...

Any talk about derbies is like a school playground argument about who is your best and second best friend; unresolvable, circular, divisi...

On the touchline before the Coventry game stood Michael Appleton working for TV, dressed in a suit which looked both immaculately cut and...

We had a great week - first league win, beat Newport comfortably, drew Manchester City in the next round, then off to Sunderland. Former...

I have stumbled across a quantum fact; it's a fact which exists in two apparently conflicting states simultaneously. It is both usele...

When I listen to arguments about Brexit I often ask myself if those who voted leave genuinely believe it when the Daily Mail or Nigel Far...

Success, it is said, is a fine balance between having enough confidence to believe you can achieve something and enough doubt to convince...

Inevitably, after Saturday's defeat to Portsmouth, someone on the phone-in reached for that standard explanation for any failure - N...

I have to confess, I don't get a buzz from the new season. It disrupts my summer and messes with commitments I had to make before I k...

If there was anything to sum up our close-season it was this year’s kit launch. Last season we did that thing where we wore the new shirt...