Most outwardly supported football club (The race to 50)
So I went to the football world cup (or should I say ‘The FIFA Disneyworld Cup™’) in South Africa last year. Whilst I was there, my friend and I noticed something quite glaringly obvious: That the most outwardly supported club football team were not, contrary to popular belief, Manchester United, but in fact Arsenal. By outwardly supporting I mean sporting of their shirt. Of course, we saw more international shirts depending which match we were at. But amongst the hundreds of thousand of supporters we saw at our 3 stadium matches and numerous other matches viewed from fan parks, there was no doubt that Arsenal were, by a long way, the most popular team.
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Who is The Secret Footballer?
On my way to see Spurs v Stoke last weekend I was made aware of The Secret Footballer‘s column in The Guardian newspaper by my friend Colin. I was intrigued and on Friday night I went on the Guardian website to read all of his previous articles. It has to be said I was in a bit of a drunken haze at the time and so I decided to buy the domain www.whoisthesecretfootballer.co.uk. I then set up and launched the website over the weekend whilst watching The FA Cup semi final between Man City and Man Utd, El Clasico, MOTD, The Football League Show and Arsenal V Liverpool. By this morning it has gone a little viral! Robbie Savage has been tweeting me about it and Ian Prior, Sports Editor for the Guardian, tweeted that he ‘loves it’. Crazy fun.
You can follow my tweets on the subject, check out the facebook page or go directly to the website and contribute to the debate…
Busy bee as the sun begins to shine
It was a beautiful day yesterday. I ate my lunch out in the garden with the sun shining on my face, and low and behold a bee flew by! A bee! In early February! Well you know what they say, the early bee catches the …erm…