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The period between a player signing for a football club and then making his debut is charmed.
Before this week, the only thing to get me het up about Hull City was their perma-tanned manager Phil Brown.
Martin Allen popped up on the radio this week and suggested Brentford had been close to signing up Leeds United’s free-scoring striker Jermaine Beckford back when he ruled the Griffin Park roost.
On this week's podcast Richmond and Twickenham Times' chief sports reporter Stuart Amos and Ealing (Road) Comedies columnist Will Gore are joined in the studio by Brentford's long-throwing midfield maestro David Hunt
Despite what some of you may think, the life of a Brentford columnist is not all fast cars, loose women and champagne breakfasts.
For years now, Brentford supporters have looked on as clubs up and down the country have had their financial situations dramatically improved thanks to huge cash injections from a whole manner of dodgy sheikhs, well-heeled Americans, passport-hunting Egyptians, completely legit Russian oligarchs and very British chancers.
Just when things were going so well, Chesterfield have to come along and ruin things.
Pointing out that footballers are not the sharpest knives in the drawer may not be the most earth-shattering revelation, but every so often it is a fact that bears repeating.
I am preparing myself a huge weekend of televised sport. In the early hours of November 9, I will watch Joe Calzaghe take on Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden and, later in the day, I’ll settle down for the surprisingly not-pay-per-view dust-up between Brentford and Havant & Waterlooville.
To offend or not to offend? That appears to have been the big question over the past week or two; from Joe Kinnear’s spectacular tirade against the press to the Tottenham supporters’ goading of Sol Campbell.
Greg Dyke has caused a minor rumbling with his comments about the “farcical” nature of the Premiership. Although I’m certain he wasn’t talking about a country house scene full of romantic misunderstandings and hilarious cases of mistaken identity, he has got a point.
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