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Report on Sheffield Floods by Richard Poppleton

July 5th, 2007 | No Comments

“3, 2, 1, and you’re on air”

“Hello this is John Fortescue-Smyth, BAFTA award-winning journalist reporting today for the BBC from flood-ravaged South Yorkshire.”


Your History’s No Good To Me by Tom Ayers

April 5th, 2007 | No Comments

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“F*ck off Chelsea FC
You ain’t got no history
18 leagues and 5 European Cups
that’s what we call history”
The Kop
History, eh? The last bastion of the embittered fan. It certainly is a great history, that is if year zero was when Bill Shankly strode across the Pennines in 1959. Back then, no-one thought [...]