As a lifelong Nottingham Forest fan I am more than used to having my Saturday afternoons filled with despair, heartache and frustration.
However, I can accept the team is not good enough, and the manager doesn’t know what he’s doing – that is all part of being a football fan, what I can’t accept is the feeling I am being robbed of my hard earned money by the rules of the game which seem to be built around crushing any excitement from the fans.
Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce was one of the most patriotic players ever to grace the England team and although his passion was always inspiring, it could have a funny side as he tried to fire up his teammates.
It involved blaring punk rock music and a rousing but factually dubious call to arms for his players.
Football has the worst set of rules of any major sport. They encourage and even reward cheating and they work against the most important people of all, the fans. There needs to be a massive overhaul because illogical refereeing decisions slow and spoil the game. That’s not the fault of the referees, they’re stuck with a set of crazy regulations.
With some simple changes, we could introduce a lot more footballing danger into matches, making them full of goalscoring chances and so far more exciting.
The moneymen behind the ATP Tour have grown concerned in recent years that the sport of tennis is not as exciting as it should be and no longer appeals to the younger audience.
Too much downtime is the single biggest criticism that tennis faces, with players sitting down for 90 seconds between the change of ends after every two games, meaning for much of the time there is no action for fans to watch.
Roy Keane pleaded with his former team-mate Gary Neville to tell him what he needs to do to get another job in management, asking him to explain ‘what is networking?’
The comical exchange took place while the two former Man Utd stars were out walking Keane’s dog, as part of an interview for Neville’s YouTube series The Overlap.
It could be the goal of the season. A bright new star suddenly makes a break and is crossing the halfway line with only a skeleton defence ahead of him.
He has pace to burn and looks unstoppable as he glides past one defender and speeds towards the next. The excitement mounts. There’s a sharp intake of breath as the crowd senses this could decide the game…and then bang, the sense of wonder disappears. Why? Because a cynical defender manages to grab the attacker’s shirt and send him crashing to the ground.
Former England striker Ian Wright created a moving and shocking documentary for the BBC about domestic violence and its effects named Ian Wright: Home Truths.
The Match of the Day pundit revealed that he suffered abuse as a child at the hands of his stepfather and he takes an emotional journey into his past to try and deal with what he went through.
BBC football pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards have agreed upon the Premier League’s ultimate hardman.
The former pros got together with Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker to discuss and rank the hardest men in the history of the Premier League.
Swollen to more than double its normal size, and with streams of purple, green and yellow bruises forming from my mid-shin right up to my groin, I glanced down at my left leg and thought to myself, ‘Jesus, there is a chance I could die today!’
Michael Owen schooled his former team-mate Rio Ferdinand in a television debate about the best ever Liverpool striker in the Premier League age.
The discussion took place on BT Sport following another masterclass by the Red’s current top marksman Mo Salah.
