Recent content by Alive and Kicking

I think we can apply ''I'd trade everything else for that single one" in this instance!

That one never feels 'right'. All those ''it's a whole new ball game!" promos never once factored in the crests of West Ham and Newcastle? It's just weird. Whatever teams people consider to comprise a pure/definitive/nostalgic Premier League to contain, those two would be named by everyone. So...

And had that game ended when it should, they wouldn't have lost that either.

If the season hadn't been stalled and restarted in 2020, I feel Liverpool may have finished in a similar way. 22 points clear IIRC and I honestly believe that if the stuttering form of that specific time would have continued, it would have narrowed the margin enough to just about instill some...

Last time this league fixture was played with fans, 19th Aug 2018. Can't see there being a larger gap than that (between the teams that were in both the 18/19 and 21/22 seasons) Just thought it was mildly interesting.

Can't cope with the worrisome, glass half empty comments here, fcuking hell. It's going to be fine, for feck's sake.

Beckham retired from being a footballer in 2003 to become a celebrity who played exhibition football. Seriously it's weird to consider the fact he was still turning out for England under Fabio Capello and only injury ruled him out of the 2010 World Cup, an era I consider to be far and away...

Old matches from the 1990's/early 2000's on YouTube only feel 'right' if they're uploaded from a hissy, low-fi VHS tape recorded off-air. Pristine, official uploads (of which there were hundreds last year) don't convey that same sense of nostalgia and time capsuling. No Prem matches between...

This is the first 'proper' (I.E crowds) Tottenham vs United fixture in nearly three years (Jan 2019, the first of Ole's 'real tests'). Same scoreline at HT too.

Probably genuinely down to organisers being a bit rusty with the specifics of scheduling and organisation after 18 months of idle hands.

Educate me as to why that Brentford goal was disallowed? The keeper released the ball and took aim to kick, Brentford player intercepted it mid-air and scored.

Cannot be certain. The 'lost' Treble gets mentioned a lot, but if history is altered to allow Man United to win that match and possibly the FA Cup, the timeline might also see Drogba or John Terry shoot six inches further left of the right post in the CL final. Or a critical injury to an...

Waddle not squaring it to Platt/Lineker during ET of that '90 semi-final. The shot he took wasn't really on (I think it gets tipped - via the faintest fingertip touch you'll ever see - onto the post, rather than it being an outright 'miss') and you can't really look to the penalty shootout as...

Man United never played Southampton at OT in the 1990s. The fixtures were always played at The Dell. The first time somebody noticed and arranged a home fixture against S'oton was the game where Taibi committed his gaff.

I heard of this guy about 2013 when he tracked down a Twitter troll. Think he drove over to his street and uploaded a pic of the street sign, obviously causing the troll to quake and apologise profusely.