Despite not being a football fan, a nationalist or a car driver, I really rather like all those England flags festooned about the national vehicle fleet (and indeed pretty much everywhere else).
There are numerous detractors of which Janet Street-Porter seems typical. She bemoans ‘white van man’ and the pointlessness of football. Aside of the snobbery [...]

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Warning: football boots can kill children

What is the point of The Sharpener? I don’t ask the question rhetorically but rather as an exercise in some early navel-gazing. It has been just over a month since we re-launched and with the meetup coming up, this seems an opportune time to ask.
Blogs need a ‘reason’ to succeed and do well. You may [...]