The Ugly Face of the Beautiful Game
In an alternate reality, supporters of the two sides fortunate enough to have fought their way through to the FA Cup final following last weekend’s semis at Wembley will have spent the week basking in the reflected glory of their teams, and lording it up over fans of clubs who no longer have anything to […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: The Ox and LeBoeuf with Henry MoeranYou may have heard that we are Living in Extraordinary Times™, but here at That’s Liquid Towers we’d like to provide some relief from the doom and gloom of a deadly pandemic by providing the doom and gloom of watching your football team get beaten. So far this season we’ve been fortunate enough to host […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Chairman of the Board’ with Clive NatesThe best weekend in the English football calendar is among us. Yes, it’s time for commentators up and down the land to dust off their book of cliches, time for pundits to crank their condescension switches to maximum, and supporters of every club outside the top six to begin dreaming of a heroic run to […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Que Sera Sera’ with KetchWhilst most of the country have been busying themselves with thoughts of Christmas, along with the Worst General Election of All Time, a handful of lower and non-league football teams have been spending the cold dark December nights attempting to secure their places in the best weekend of the English football season - the FA […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Cruel English Dramas’ with George ElekThough we might barely be two months into the new season, the nights are already drawing in, the Saturday afternoons are getting colder, and teams beginning to nestle into the comfort of midtable are already allowing their eyes to wander to that most glorious of distractions from the slog of a league campaign: the cup […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Hammer To Fall’ with Chris Scull.Welcome back to Losing My Favourite Game, the feature that takes all the joy from the experience of football fandom, casts it to one side, and zones in on the pain, anguish and suffering instead. Every week this season, we’ll be publishing stories from a host of voices across the world of football and beyond, with each […]
Read More Losing My Favourite Game: ‘And The Drought Goes On’ with Jasmine BabaWith the hopes and dreams of 734 football teams dashed into smithereens, the stage is now set for the FA Cup Final, as the Goliath of Manchester City prepares to go toe-to-toe with the Large David of Watford in the showdown of the Spanish managers. Will City find themselves stung by the Hornets? Can Will Hughes […]
Read More FA Cup Flashback: Do The Wright Thing (1989/90)We’re down to the final four as this season’s FA Cup rolls towards its denouement. To celebrate this season’s competition we’re looking back on some of the great cup ties from years gone by. Not necessarily the biggest shocks (Coventry City actually won the bloody thing…), nor even the most entertaining games (…it wasn’t a […]
Read More FA Cup Flashback: Spireites in the Sky (1996/97)“Wembley Way beckons for the Wolves!” It’s was on a dreary day at Wembley just over thirty-nine years ago that Wolverhampton Wanderers last lifted a major trophy in English football. Like Andy Gray, the winning goalscorer against Nottingham Forest in that League Cup final, most of the Old Gold supporters that witnessed that victory are […]
Read More Golden Years: Wolverhampton Wanderers On the Brink of a Vintage Season.“Ifill goes alone…blocked by Poom…Cahill! He’s earned a spot, that’s his game. Tim Cahill puts Millwall in front at Old Trafford in an FA Cup semi-final” The primal roar that greeted Millwall’s greatest FA Cup moment seemed almost incongruous in the surroundings of Manchester United’s Theatre of Dreams. Up until Tim Cahill’s 26th minute goal, […]
Read More The Den of Opportunity: Millwall Hope That Home Advantage Can Prove Their Secret Weapon Once Again.