So. One thing led to another, and now here we are. The Premier League season, which once seemed so endless, is over. People have been stabbed, and champions have been crowned. We've had arrests, protests, lawsuits, assaults, class conflicts, scandals, accusations, media brawls, affairs, divorces, funerals, break-ins, international diplomatic crises, and unplanned encounters between [...]

Tom and Daryl have both written nice posts about Paul Gascoigne, who was arrested and detained as a mental-health risk yesterday after a series of bizarre incidents in English hotels. The collapse of this great player has been covered with admirable sadness and tact by nearly everyone who's written about it, and I'll only [...]

Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Garrincha, the legendary Brazilian player who drank himself to death at the age of 49. The BBC's Jonathan Stevenson has written a piece on the importance of remembering him.
Simply "remembering" him seems like a low bar to set, though, for one of the greatest players [...]

One of the smaller pieces of news in the football press this morning is that Norwich City's Dion Dublin has confirmed his plan to retire at the end of the season, after a career spanning 20 years and more than 700 club appearances. At the age of 38, he says his bones are speaking [...]