When Crystal Palace face Liverpool this coming Sunday, 10th August they will be contesting their first Community Shield in the 103rd edition of the new season’s traditional ‘curtain raiser’. The Community Shield, or its ancestor Charity Shield, dates back to before Palace were formed as a professional club. Throughout the early years of the match’sContinue reading “The Community Shield 2025 and a history of muddle-headed meddling”
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Premier League MW 38 / ‘It Started With a Kick’ Episode 59
Premier League Nuggets – Match Week 38 And another season is done and dusted, with this one having little jeopardy for the last few weeks after the relegation and title issues were decided long ago. Liverpool’s march to the title proved inexorable and the 10-point gap between them and Arsenal underlined their dominance, especially whenContinue reading “Premier League MW 38 / ‘It Started With a Kick’ Episode 59”
Premier League Match Week 24/ Episode 44 ‘It Started With a Kick’
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 24 Only one Premier League match this week but there was enough incident in those 98+ minutes to satiate the appetite of the hungriest football fan. Fittingly for the last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, James Tarkowski’s late equaliser ensured that Everton and Liverpool had won the same number ofContinue reading “Premier League Match Week 24/ Episode 44 ‘It Started With a Kick’”
Premier League Match Week 20/ Episode 39 ‘It Started With a Kick’
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 20 TOTTENHAM MAKING A DIFFERENCE Whatever has been said about Tottenham this season, and there has already been plenty, one of the most remarkable things is how they have managed to have a healthy goal difference of +12 despite being 12th in the table. There are currently only three clubsContinue reading “Premier League Match Week 20/ Episode 39 ‘It Started With a Kick’”
It Started With a Kick – live show with Pat Nevin
Am delighted to report the very first live ‘It Started With a Kick’ podcast show with Pat Nevin was a roaring success. A packed house at The Knight of Notting Hill were regaled with a range of entertaining and candid stories from Pat. We learned about how having started his career at Clyde he nervelesslyContinue reading “It Started With a Kick – live show with Pat Nevin”
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 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”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24
1 March MW 26 FERTILE FEBRUARY A few of us have been banging on endlessly about the number of goals that have been flying in this season and February’s total underlined the remarkable scoring rate that has been reached. A total of 158 goals in the space of 42 matches gave an astonishing rate ofContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24
2 February MW 22 QUICK OFF THE MARK On Tuesday night two of the fastest goals scored in the Premier League followed one another. Luton’s Elijah Adebayo set the ball rolling at Kenilworth Road within 18 seconds and Ben Brereton-Diaz wasn’t too far behind with the opener for Sheffield United at Selhurst Park that wasContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24”
The Football Mine 