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 [...]

All (footballing) thoughts in Walsall are on Tuesday night’s game at the Banks’s in which the Saddlers will take a 2-0 lead over Preston North End into the second [...]

Gavin Drake with the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy© David Linney Is this the year? Can we start to believe? Will the Saddlers make their first-ever visit to Wembley in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Please excuse a rare piece of commentary on this, the unofficial first day of the new football season: One of the recent additions to the match-day entertainment at Walsall [...]