My lover says girls can't 'do' football. Sexist and patronising? Probably. But in my mid-40s suddenly it feels like a challenge.
So I'm learning about football. I'm finding out about the love and the passion.
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Football is revolting.
Well bits of it are anyway.
From Scottish football heartland to the powerful voice of a Mariner.
The 2018 World Cup Bid team are in the process of mutiny and beset by calls for change.
But amongst it all.
The loudest voice...
There are some people you would just not want to follow into a job as football manager aren't there?
Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger for instance.
And of course 'Arry Redknapp.
It is hard for such situations to be anything but a poison...
We were lucky on Saturday weren't we?
I was doing our radio show with my lover as we battled Plymouth but kept a beady eye on the results. We were busy concentrating on ending the show as they went into extra time so it was a lovely surprise to learn...
Ever had one of those days at work when you wish you hadn't bothered to get out of bed, let alone turn up?
Probably the Everton players yesterday.
Definitely the Wigan team tonight.
Almost certainly the journalist on the receiving end of this...
I'm a girl of few failings as you can imagine.
One weakness I would have to own in relation to football, however, is a propensity to believe in the equation;
"Good Looks (GL) + Good Skills (GS) = Perfection (P)".
Somehow I find it harder to notice...
