Curbing Your Enthusiasm: Bad agents and rotten chairs
A former Premier League manager approached us here at Tales and asked that we publish his diaries, so he could show the public what life is like out of the…
Tales From Not The Top Flight: The Big Championship Preview – Part Two
The Championship starts tonight friends as Sunderland host Derby County. While I could sit here and make fun of Darron Gibson’s pub antics, or indeed the fact that he spells…
Fantasy Football Unplanned: Punts Preview
The Premier League’s Fantasy Football game is one of the most irritating games ever invented. I love it and hate it in equal measure. Perhaps I put too much effort…
Jurgen’s lucky strikes and smoke signals
If you think that things have been quiet in Liverpool this summer, notwithstanding the endless fleet of Securicor and Group 4 Security (sometimes known as G4S if they are insecure…
Tales Top Tips for 2017/18: Who will win, lose, be laughed at or even care as the money rolls in?
Chris Darwen Premier League Winners: The fans! The fans will be the winners, honest. No, of course they won’t be. Some ticket prices maybe frozen, but that cynic in me thinks…
Brumour! Brumour! Hang on, did Liverpool win the Premier League last night or something?
Calm down, calm down fans of Liverpool FC. Just because you beat Bayern Munich in a meaningless preseason friendly does not mean you are going to win the Premier League…
The Magnificent 7: Tinder, making competition rules up as you go and Pep can retire happy
As we draw ever closer to the real stuff kicking off, who have been the finest seven purveyors of football excellence in the last seven days? Of course, excellence isn’t…
Is Right La!
“I don’t wanna be shit!” As far as meltdowns go, Darron Gibson had an absolute corker of one over the weekend. When speaking to Sunderland fans in a bar after…
Employee in “sicky” shocker day after holiday ends…
Now, I am sure we have all called in sick the day that we were supposed to return from holiday, haven’t we? And, to be fair, pulling a sicky has…
Tales From Not The Top Flight: The Big Championship Preview – Part One
The Championship season is almost upon us friends so its time to preview the most exciting league in the world – well arguably. Of course the best way to preview…