Players come, players go. I know that but I find it hard to say goodbye to players, especially ones like Clayton Donaldson. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Clayton Donaldson
Looking ahead
I was encouraged by Gary Rowett’s statement about the way the ending of the emergency loan system next season is shaping what he is doing now. The mere fact that he is looking ahead rather than lurching from one game to the next is good. Continue reading
Taking the positives from a disappointing game
The game against Huddersfield was a disappointment after the game at Derby the previous week. In both games, Birmingham City didn’t play well and scraped a draw. At Derby, the two goals at the end didn’t erase the memory of the poor play in the previous ninety minutes but they did seem to remove the negative feelings about it. Continue reading
Blogging etc
I didn’t risk much when I started a blog. The worst that could have happened was that I’d waste some money and time and make a fool of myself. In other contexts, saying what you think can be dangerous. The sentence imposed on one Saudi blogger for criticising clerics was 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes to be carried out over 20 weeks. His first flogging occurred last week. And in France, cartoonists who used satire as their weapon were killed by men who used guns. Continue reading
Joys and sorrows
Keep right on is a brilliant football anthem and it expresses a fundamental truth about football: “there will be joys and sorrows too.” And you need to learn to cope with both if you want to survive in football and in life. Continue reading