Gavin Drake addressing the crowd at Wembley© Dave Gittins Well, not quite! But I was slightly amused yesterday, when it dawned on me that in the space of seven days I was on [...]

This is what the announcer at Wembley Stadium Station sounds like… …From the 10th floor of the nearby Holiday Inn. I really do not think that he really needs to [...]

Are you collecting the Panini FIFA World Cup stickers? My son is, and has a number of swaps to pass on and is in need of just 16 to complete his album. The stickers he needs [...]

Gavin Drake at a recent match© David Linney The word legend is often overused – particularly when it comes to footballers. Of course, fans will have their favourites, [...]

If you’re wondering what to do during the next Bank Holiday, I’ve got just the solution: England has been chosen as the venue for the Group 1 matches of this year’s [...]

We’re coming to the tail-end of the English football season and, for many, it’s all over bar the shouting. Promotion and relegation positions are being confirmed; [...]

I don’t usually pay much attention to advertising – even though I’ve provided the voice-over in a radio advertising campaign on Beacon, BRMB (both now [...]

The 1983/84 football season will live long in the memory of Saddlers’ supporters. An appearance in the semi-final of the League Cup coincided with the re-opening of [...]

I said, in a rare piece of commentary, at the start of the football season, that “the road to Wembley starts here.”  It was an optimistic look forward to a [...]

New inquests for the 96 Liverpool supporters killed in the Hillsborough disaster could be held after an independent panel, chaired by the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd [...]