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At the risk of denouncing the family name, football has become a bit of an emotional vampire. At its worst, modern football is a cesspit of bile, hype, nonsense, hot air and yellow tickers. But every time we think enough’s enough and it’s time to change our name to Tiddlywinks Biennially, something happens to remind us why we wanted to be called Football Daily in the first place. Of late, the thing keeping us away from the deed poll office is a team dressed in a red and blue Macron kit. In the English football zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Eagle. Crystal Palace won the FA Cup, the first major trophy in their history, followed that with the Community Shield and are now, after beating Liverpool thrillingly on Saturday, the only unbeaten team left in the Premier League. On Thursday they will make history when they play Dynamo Kyiv in their first match of Tin Pot’s league stage.
Taking ‘favourite shirt sponsors: go’ (last Tuesday’s Football Daily, full email edition) as an invitation, may I offer Wang Computers who sponsored my team, Oxford United, from 1985-89? For puerility fans like myself, the sponsor of course adorned our players’ shirts for the glorious Milk Cup final of 1986 where, inspired by the defeated QPR’s sponsor, a large banner in the Wembley crowd read something like: ‘I’d rather have a Wang than a Guinness any day.’ Whether any funds reached the club via this arrangement is debatable, but it certainly enabled our then-owner to [Snip – Football Daily Lawyers]” – Richard Prangle.
In response to Paul Clerkin wondering what the Football Weekly merch consists of (yesterday’s letters), that’s a cat that will surely stay firmly in its bag forever; if readers actually knew what they stood a chance of winning, they’d be sending in a daily deluge that would put Taylor Swift’s fan mail to shame. The internet would probably collapse and civilisation, including Football Daily, with it. Restraint, restraint. Please” – Simon Gill.
This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!At the risk of denouncing the family name, football has become a bit of an emotional vampire. At its worst, modern football is a cesspit of bile, hype, nonsense, hot air and yellow tickers. But every time we think enough’s enough and it’s time to change our name to Tiddlywinks Biennially, something happens to remind us why we wanted to be called Football Daily in the first place. Of late, the thing keeping us away from the deed poll office is a team dressed in a red and blue Macron kit. In the English football zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Eagle. Crystal Palace won the FA Cup, the first major trophy in their history, followed that with the Community Shield and are now, after beating Liverpool thrillingly on Saturday, the only unbeaten team left in the Premier League. On Thursday they will make history when they play Dynamo Kyiv in their first match of Tin Pot’s league stage.Taking ‘favourite shirt sponsors: go’ (last Tuesday’s Football Daily, full email edition) as an invitation, may I offer Wang Computers who sponsored my team, Oxford United, from 1985-89? For puerility fans like myself, the sponsor of course adorned our players’ shirts for the glorious Milk Cup final of 1986 where, inspired by the defeated QPR’s sponsor, a large banner in the Wembley crowd read something like: ‘I’d rather have a Wang than a Guinness any day.’ Whether any funds reached the club via this arrangement is debatable, but it certainly enabled our then-owner to [Snip – Football Daily Lawyers]” – Richard Prangle.In response to Paul Clerkin wondering what the Football Weekly merch consists of (yesterday’s letters), that’s a cat that will surely stay firmly in its bag forever; if readers actually knew what they stood a chance of winning, they’d be sending in a daily deluge that would put Taylor Swift’s fan mail to shame. The internet would probably collapse and civilisation, including Football Daily, with it. Restraint, restraint. Please” – Simon Gill.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…