Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Tebay
One of the great joys of driving up the M6 – apart from not being crushed and burnt to death by drunk footballers – is that for long stretches the motorway runs parallel to the West Coast Main Line, the bendy version of the East Coast Main Line.
A Few Reasons Why The Imminent Start of the Football Season Is Not Actually Something We Should Celebrate But Should In Fact Make Us All Profoundly Despondent But Doesn’t Because Our Lives Are Evidently Devoid Of Meaning And We’re All Too Stupid To Realise That Football Needs To Be Destroyed In Order To Save Football (Or, How I Learned To Stop Loving Football And Start Loving Something Else I Haven’t Yet Decided On Yet)
Are you excited? Football is back! Yes, football. That sport we love and always will love, because that’s just the way it is! Woo! Yay! Wooo!! Woo. Sigh.
Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Keele
Think about the following question very carefully: when was the last time you went to Stoke-on-sodding-Trent? More specifically, when was the last time you went to Stoke-on-sodding-Trent WITHOUT STOPPING YOUR CAR?
2008/2009 Season Review: Johnny Chapman
Sheffield-based Johnny Chapman gives impsTALK the answers to its wacky end-of-season question list……
2008/2009 Season Review: Ken Fox
Dr Ken Fox is a clever man. He’s also our landlord, which is why we’re contractually obligated to remind the world just how clever he is every two weeks. Here are Ken’s Ten Questions, in which he looks back fondly at the disaster that was the 2008/2009 season….
2008/2009 Season Review: Duncan Browne
Boston Standard hack Duncan ‘Rich Havana’ Browne, chairman of the Lisa Rashid Fan Club, is a busy man. But he was still able to spare a few minutes of his time answering impsTALK’s CRAZY end of season questions…..
2008/2009 Season Review
Here at impsTALK Towers, our team of world-class football comedians are always seeking out fresh, exciting and innovative ways to humiliate Boston, Boston United, Boston United’s players, Boston United’s staff, Boston United’s facilities, fans, websites, fanzines, opponents and, most importantly of all, Bob Blackburn, for the benefit our vast and sophisticated audience of nine people […]
Wenger View: Trent Bridge
Not football, writes Adam Hildred, as if it matters, but still a crap view… I thought I had it somewhere but only just noticed it going through Picasa again… Now that the Radcliffe Road End has been built at Trent Bridge, some of the seats in the old (1990!) William Clarke stand are, urrm, what […]
Great Short Term Emergency Loan Deals Of Our Time: Luke McCormick
#1 – Luke McCormick Who the hell is he? Luke McCormick is a goalkeeper from Coventry. Yes, yes. Coventry. Don’t let that cloud your judgement.
Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Leicester Forest East
Venture to Leicester’s tenuous outskirts and you will encounter the same bleak suburban wasteland you’ll find in every city: low density industrial units replete with vast tracts of asphalt car-parks, massive windswept road junctions, huge council safari parks patrolled by armed feral vermin and flat-pack pubs serving tasteless gruel marketed as ‘good, honest food’.
Report: Ilkeston 1, Boston United 1
Ilkeston Town 1 Boston United 1 Where: New Manor Ground, Ilkeston When: Tuesday 09 December 2008 How many: 270 Temperature: -85 degrees centigrade Going: Frozen fucking solid
Wenger View: Bramall Lane
Where: Bramall Lane, Sheffield When: 18 November 2008 Event: England U21 v Czech Republic U21 Ticket cost: £10 Note how the post, like a laser, bisects the view of the pitch quite beautifully, almost perfectly obscuring the far goal.