Copy: Sports Illustrated, May 2012 Tonight, the annual bunfight to get into “the best league in the world” begins with the Championship playoffs. But, actually, how good is the Premier League? This is what I investigated for Sports Illustrated this month – I went to see...

Copy: Sports Illustrated, March 2012 >> Such are the vagaries of publishing deadlines that writing about Manchester City’s chances of winning the Premier League title in February was always likely to have an element of risk attached to it. Still, this week I was pretty pleased that...

Copy: Metro, 01/12/11  >> Having reviewed masses of sports books for Metro this year, I compiled their end of year list of the best in the field this week. This was written before attending the William Hill Sports Book Prize on Monday – and it was good to see that the book they...

Copy: Easyjet Traveller, January 2011 >> I’m reposting this piece on the matchday experience at FC St Pauli, Hamburg, for no other reason than I fancy blowing my own trumpet. Earlier this afternoon I won a German National Tourist Board award for the story, at a ceremony in London....

Somehow I’ve only just seen the William Hill Sports Book 2011 longlist. I’ve read, er, four out of the 14, which, trust me, is quite impressive. Those being… The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst (HarperPress) A general, globe-trotting look at the appeal of, well, you’ve...

I don’t know how often Northern Canaries tumblr posts will make it on here, but I really did enjoy an exhibition of cigarette packets made into football shirts enough to write about it. Leo Fitzmaurice, take a bow son. “Post Match is a simple idea, superbly executed. Artist Leo...

No, Norwich City didn’t sign Miroslav Klose. Lewis McGugan is languishing in the relegation zone with Nottingham Forest. But hey, it was the silly season when I wrote this end of season report/new season preview for Sabotage Times… “I would change very little; these players...