This weekend brings one of the highlights of the football calendar, the third round of the FA Cup. While the competition has been downgraded over the last few years by the “Premiership is everything” attitude it’s still one I very much look forward to. While we can’t reasonably expect to Read More
As Mike is otherwise engaged, the preview has fallen with Russ and I. Russ has done the match bit and I’ve added a Q&A part with John Verrall of the Standing on the Glebe blog. I have answered some questions for him which can be found here. John’s answers are Read More
As I suspect most Blues fans expected, we have made our exit from the Europa League despite winning this encounter. Thursday was the night of my staff’s Christmas do and normally I would have been there but there are a number of passionate football followers among the girls who long-sufferingly Read More
So here we go, it’s the last of our European group matches and maybe our last European game for a very long time. Like most Blues fans I have enjoyed our European adventure and while it may have affected our league form a little I’d like it to continue. It’s Read More
Sporting Clube de Braga are a football team from Portugal, hailing from the city of Braga (hence the name), hailing from the 30,000 capacity Etadio Municipal so they’ve probably got the same number of fans as ours. Rather bizarrely, as the stadium is set in a quarry with a cliff-face Read More
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