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...

This was written for The National last year when Manchester City doc Blue Moon Rising was released. But I can’t think of any decent additions since then, can you? (And no, Blue Moon Rising isn’t one of them). Click here for the Top...

Now that Mark Cavendish has joined Sky Pro Cycling, prepare for even more books about cycling. Here, for The National, were my bike books of the summer, including interviews with Ned Boulting, Bella Bathurst and Robert Penn. “I can’t pretend I’m Roger Federer. But I can get...

Perusing the paper today, appalled at Liverpool’s latest money grab, I caught sight of the Premier League table. There Norwich City were, in 9th. Two years ago, Wes Hoolahan was hoping we could stay in the League One Playoffs. That’s how much has changed, which was the the subject...