Singing For The Blyth
By the time you get around to reading this, the Real FA Cup might already be over for Blyth Spartans this year or – hopefully they’ve got past Mickleover Sports in the third qualifying round and are in...
View ArticleRadford (A Ballad To)
“Once upon a time there was this little boy called Ronnie. He grew up in a little tin shack with his mother and 15 brothers. All little Ronnie wanted to do when he grew up was play football. And then...
View ArticleTop Of The Pops – The Football Edition
I should have been doing this since the beginning, it’s only now I’ve realised that there should be video section on the website. I have posted the occasional video inside the normal posts but I’ve...
View ArticleTop Of The Pops – The FA Cup Edition
A slight misnomer with the title because there are only a couple of clips in relation to TOTP, the others come from various other TV shows. Yes I am clickbaiting you now. Because of the intervention of...
View ArticleThe FA Cup Final Promo Video
In 1981 video killed the radio star and later on it also put Legs & Co. on the dole. In the early 1980’s you could still get an entire football team into the Top Of The Pops studio to mime away to...
View ArticleTony Hiller – He Wrote The (Football) Songs
Stealing and slightly misusing that line from the Manilow song to introduce our next subject – Tony Hiller. Along with the previously featured Harold Spiro, the pair of them were responsible for a...
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