Sarcastic pops at Bobby can’t pass for real comment

At university, I was shaken by the confidence of one of the lecturers in my first year. This old-school history professor railed against ‘the perils of the welfare state’ and talked in excited terms about the importance of military might and, being young,...

‘Baird heads it out’

Two clean sheets in a row – at Wolfsburg (who hadn’t failed to score in 27 matches before Thursday) and at Liverpool, desperate for the points to revive their Champions’ League hopes. Not a bad week’s work. Particularly impressive again was a...

The Observer’s Fulham love letter

The peerless Paul Hayward pens a great piece all about Fulham’s progress under Roy Hodgson. Read it and feel a massive smile creeping across your face. Here are a few snippets: A second-tier continental championship is not to be sneered at, though, especially...