PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 9 TOP AND TAIL Looking at Brentford’s position in the table there is a neat symmetry as they are ninth after nine matches. They have won four, lost four and drawn one, scoring 18 and conceding 18. But that hardly tells the story of the drama that has unfolded inContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 Match Week 9. Episodes 29 and 30 of “It Started With a Kick”. Wednesday 13 November live show with Pat Nevin”
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It Started With a Kick Episode 28 with Peter Drury and announcing our first live show featuring Pat Nevin
After the international break it’s a double helping of It Started With a Kick. First up, this week’s guest is the one and only Peter Drury. Peter’s father was a vicar so he did not attend his first match until he was at Hull University as an 18 year-old. His early hero was the Tigers’Continue reading “It Started With a Kick Episode 28 with Peter Drury and announcing our first live show featuring Pat Nevin”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 Match Week 6 Episode 26 of It Started With a Kick – Martin Tyler
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 6 BEES LIGHTNING STRIKES THRICE Thomas Frank’s men did it for the third consecutive match, scoring inside the first minute is becoming a hasty habit in West London. This time they were at home and Bryan Mbeumo repeated what he had done at Tottenham the previous week only this timeContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 Match Week 6 Episode 26 of It Started With a Kick – Martin Tyler”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 5 Episode 25 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Seb White
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 5 BEES LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE When Bryan Mbeumo smashed the ball into Tottenham’s goal after just 23 seconds it almost exactly mirrored Yoanne Wissa’s opener at the Etihad the previous week. Wissa’s was actually a second faster but in so doing, Brentford set a Premier League record for the fastestContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 5 Episode 25 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Seb White”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 4 Episode 24 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Adrian Clarke
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 4 YELLOW FEVER Chelsea’s late victory at Bournemouth on Saturday night was not the most exciting match but it did set a Premier League record for yellow cards, racking up fourteen in total, including five in the space of a frenetic six first half minutes. The previous record was twelve,Continue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 4 Episode 24 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Adrian Clarke”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW3 and It Started With a Kick episode 22 – Jim Beglin
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 3 RED CARDS Arsenal fans were left fuming by the dismissal of Declan Rice in the Brighton game. While there is some sympathy for Rice, for whom this was his first sending-off in the 245 appearances of his professional career. The second yellow card for nudging the ball away wasContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW3 and It Started With a Kick episode 22 – Jim Beglin”
Selhurst Park: 100 years-old It Started With a Kick Episode 21 – Michael Caulfield
Introduction – This week’s blog looks at the centenary of Selhurst Park Selhurst Park Centenary 30th August 2024 – the grand old lady of SE25 is 100 years-old today. One of the famed football architect Archibald Leitch’s many stadia, Selhurst Park is still going strong. Selhurst is showing her venerable age in the two standsContinue reading “Selhurst Park: 100 years-old It Started With a Kick Episode 21 – Michael Caulfield”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW1 and ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 20
OPENER And so we are underway for the 33rd Premier League season and Joshua Zirkzee became the first player whose name begins with a Z to score the opening goal of the season. As you are asking , the most common letter for the the very first goal of the season is C with CarlContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW1 and ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 20”
Final Euros Nuggets and Episode 15 of ‘It Started With a Kick’
Some people think it’s all over and it is for both England and Gareth Southgate – an eight-year journey ends with another defeat in a European Championship Final. This time to Spain, who were the better team not only in the final but throughout the tournament as you will see from the Nuggets below startingContinue reading “Final Euros Nuggets and Episode 15 of ‘It Started With a Kick’”
Euros Own Goals and Episode 13 of It Started With a Kick
This piece on the proliferation of own goals at Euros appeared in The Guardian on 4th July When Jan Vertonghen deflected Randal Kolo Muani’s shot past Koen Casteels in the 85th minute of Belgium’s Last 16 match, he became the ninth player to register an own goal at Euros 2024. That was France’s third goalContinue reading “Euros Own Goals and Episode 13 of It Started With a Kick”
The Football Mine 