Browsing all posts tagged with patrick barclay.
Monday, December 14th, 2009
I was going to write another bit about Rooney’s dive this weekend, but I bore myself with the diving dogma so no doubt any regular readers we do have are bored also. And then I saw Patrick Barclay had written a piece, and I like him, so I’ve reprinted that instead. And then I saw he’s also commented on the penalty issue (goalkeepers advancing off their lines) which was going to be my other piece – so I’ve just reprinted that too. This site is rapidly turning into reprint central – but at least the quality of writing is going up…
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We are constantly luading the Guardian Football Weekly podcast – and rightly so – but don’t forget about the Times’ one, either. Although Phil Jupitus is an insipid host the excellent Patrick Barclay provides consistently insightful contributions, and although a bit of a nob Gabriel Marcotti also makes the occasional good point. Certainly worth a listen.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The Times’ football luminary Patrick Barclay has a piece in today’s edition (well it’s on the website so I assume it’s in the paper) about outlawing shirt-pulling, or grappling as he calls it – you can read it here. He makes a point that we have made a couple of times before – that to [...]
