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The Morning After - Six FA Cup Hangovers

Category: Articles Written by NRP

After the transfer window, there’s only one thing to be writing about in Jaunary, isn’t there? It's got to be the FA Cup, but what after that? The loss of romance, how big clubs don't respect it any more, how the fans aren't interested in it anymore, how the authorities need to reinstate it to its rightful place at the top of the English sporting pantheonyh? No, because, despite all those trappings, the FA Cup is still the original and the best, pre-dating the Football League and always providing a great leveler, between public schoolboys and mill workers, gentlemen and players, giants and... other football clubs.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:31

Pointless Chat Proves That Example Still Hates Wigan

Category: Articles Written by NRP

So we usually do these things by flicking through our little black books for an opposition fan that we've know, either through the fanzine, the website or through messing about on Twitter rather than doing any proper writing. Occasionally the page for a club is blank. Like when we didn't have a 'sixy talk' for QPR a few weeks back.

Determined to stop that happening I threw a speculative plea out on twitter this morning. If I didn't know someone then maybe someone I knew, knew someone. Maybe Fulham fan and top rap star (?) Example would still be desperate to prove that he didn't think that Wigan was an absolute hole and would volunteer. Well, all that "friend of the town" stuff was clearly just a ploy as he didn't get back to us, but ready to save the day for both celebrity-dom and Fulham in general was Richard Osman.

Last Updated on Friday, 11 January 2013 19:02

A Stopped Clock - Roman Golobart's Playlist

Category: Articles Written by NRP

Badgering professional footballers into giving us content for articles isn't what we're usually about, but following yesterday's Left Foot, Right Foot, Header I got into a mini-conversation between Latics fan Andy Baird (@bleedingthumbs) and Roman Golobart about the Two Gallants song that I'd included.

Last Updated on Friday, 11 January 2013 10:03

Griff's 5-4-Friday - Latics in the Cup

Category: Articles Written by griff

Tomorrow is FA Cup 3rd round day, the day when the big clubs from the top two divisions of English football join the oldest and most famous knockout cup competition in world football. Although the competition has been underway since September, the first Saturday in January is when all fans start to dream about their club getting to the final and looking forward to a trip to Wembley in May.