The festive season always creates a natural time to reflect on what has happened...
It's very much felt like the end of an era stepping away from a...
An unfortunate incident in a non-league football match reported on by me blew up...
Phoenix clubs are an unfortunate necessity of modern day football, but rarely do they...
I’ll admit, this Michael Owen to Manchester United story has got me excited. I fell out of love with football some years ago now. I still follow it very closely,...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you will have heard of the social networking sensation that is Twitter. While it may seem pointless, there...
I was having a conversation yesterday with one of my best mates about sporting memories. When sport is a massive part of your life, seeing your team lift trophies, go...
Thanks to Freeview, there are now tens of channels forever showing repeats of programmes that remind us of why we used to be obsessed by television. It was on Dave...
Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a few members of my family. A couple of them, play junior football. I love discussing all the memories I have from when...
Yesterday saw Newcastle and Middlesbrough join West Brom in the Championship next season. It’s quite a fall from grace for Newcastle, who were not so long ago battling it out...
Some might say posting a video is a lazy way to blog, because one cannot be bothered to write words. In a sense, this is sometimes true. But in this...
While on my rounds as a part time delivery driver, I found myself in the middle of an estate in Leigh, faced by a rather large field littered, not with...
The penalty shoot-out is a lottery of football. It’s even more so in rugby. Last week saw the Heineken Cup Semi Final between Cardiff and Leicester decided by a rarity...
All the talk at this end of the season is the big four. Who is going for the title, who is still in with a hunt in Europe. But spare...

James Gordon is a sports media professional, commentator and football club director. MD of JDG Media, providing media management services to sports organisations, and founder/former editor of Love Rugby League. Read more...