Reviews from When Saturday Comes. Follow the link to buy the book from Amazon.
Something has changed at Millwall and the club no longer has an aura around it. Lance Bellers asks why
This season two unthinkable things happened. One, Millwall did not receive my season ticket application in time for the special discount rate; in fact, they never received an application from me at all. Two, on the morning of the last home fixture, I asked my wife if she fancied going shopping that afternoon. I did need to spend my Next vouchers, after all.
Bolton Wanderers are moving home. Keith Parkinson is impressed by their new ground
Attention all visiting Premiership fans heading for Planet Reebok via junction 6 of the M61. You have been warned. Engage low gear and keep a tight grip on the wheel – if you can. The first sight of Britain’s most expensive pounds-per-seat purpose built sports stadium will take your breath away.
Matt Nation offers a brief lesson in the correct and incorrect uses of some important footballing terms
There exists a type of elderly gentleman – a neighbour, perhaps, or one’s maternal grandfather – whose singular unpleasantness lends credence to the argument that the good old days were not all they are cracked up to be. Yet when spoken of by third parties, their overall lugubriousness is interpreted as old-fashioned plain speaking that the younger generation cannot even begin to understand. Mercifully, most of these elderly gentlemen are not former footballers, for the additional cap-doffing, spittle-licking and general kowtowing that occurs when anyone of a certain age plays football as well is as widespread as it is obscene as it is wrong.
Chesterfield fanzine editor Craig Thomas looks back on an astonishing season for his club
Before this year the only chance of Chesterfield playing in a cup semi final at Old Trafford would have been if the Auto Windscreens Shield matches were being staged at big grounds. For until this golden year Chesterfield have the worst FA Cup record of any professional club bar none: no Third Round appearance since 1981, no Fourth Round since 1954, no Fifth Round since 1950. Aside from that the only memories are grim ones, of limp exits at the hands of questionably competent opponents.
One of Martin Cloake's favourite players could be set to leave Tottenham – Ronny Rosenthal
Everyone has their own opinion about which players could truly be classed as entertainers, the ones who send a shiver of excitement through the crowd whenever they touch the ball. But I’ll bet there’s a name who wouldn’t feature on any list, one of the most extraordinary players ever to pull on a Spurs shirt – Ronny Rosenthal.