Archive for the ‘Kevin Baldwin’ Category

If there’s a way to send it to a recycle bin and free up capacity for new information, I’d like to know what it is. And soon, because even new football facts aren’t sticking. Before last Saturday’s trip to Millwall, I had to look up who scored when we beat them at home on Boxing Day. And that really isn’t good.

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Given my soft spot for hard feelings, I should really be savouring the ‘Week of Grudge’ we’ve got coming up with our games against Walsall and Colchester. But there’s something that doesn’t feel quite right about it. I think it’s because the grudges feel flimsy and ridiculous, even for me. There’s no real substance to them.

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There are plenty of things I could be gloomy about, as there always are when you’re a glass-half-empty-and-by-the-way-there’s-a-chip-in-the-rim type of person. But they’re currently being outweighed by the sense of optimism inspired by City’s form and momentum.

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There’s a belief in the City team that they are going to win, even when not at the top of their game. We can sense it in the stands – and you can bet that the opposition sense it…

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I’ll be fine if Harry shows no interest in watching football… if he shows an interest in watching a team that doesn’t play in yellow and green, that will be a different matter.

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My wife doesn't get how hard it is to write. She thinks that scripting a TV commercial is simply a matter of browsing YouTube and nicking an idea, whereas in reality� OK, bad example.

Last weekend, she was less than sympathetic when I indulged in a spot of sofa-kicking in frustration over this column. And not just because we happened to be in DFS.

'If you can't find anything to say this month, you never will,' she said. 'There hasn't exactly been a …

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'Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.'
Theocritus, Greek poet (3rd century BC)

'Strewth.'
Theoklitos, Australian goalkeeper (2009)

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to the first game of the season tomorrow.

On the other hand, as a columnist with 800 words to write, I suppose I should at least have a stab at it�

The first thing to say is how fantastic it is that the …

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A month on from the Valley of Death, the search for solace continues.

Even a tiny bit of solace. A quantum of solace, in fact.

(My physique has been compared to that of the current James Bond, I'll have you know. Admittedly, the comparison took the form of 'You're no Daniel Craig, are you?')

But the crumbs of comfort on offer are, well, pretty crummy.

We won't have to endure trips to Portman Road or Selhurst Park in the league …

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'Kevin was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremor ran through him, like a Charlton attack pounding the Norwich defence; but at The Valley one wave followed another till there were hundreds of them, and Kevin felt just the one.

'Next August he was standing erect in the River End again (until he was told to sit down), with his scarf around his neck and a drum beating within him. It was saying: 'League One will be an …