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Liverpool look to be in the driving seat
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/08/2025
» After being bombarded by transfer news for weeks, it is something of a relief that the 2025-26 Premier League season is finally getting underway this weekend. One game has already been played, with defending champions Liverpool hosting Bournemouth at Anfield last night. It would be nice if they could all start the season on the same day.
Tough times for clubs in the ‘Steel City’
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/04/2024
» Football fans in Sheffield can be forgiven if they are currently feeling a strong sense of déjà vu. Three seasons ago in March 2021 the opening paragraph in this column read: “It has not been a good year for football fans in the city of Sheffield, with United almost certain to drop out of the Premier League and Sheffield Wednesday clinging on by their fingernails in the Championship relegation battle.”
Inspired Patty earns plunge into Poppie's Pond
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 10/04/2021
» There cannot be a better way to open your LPGA Tour account than by winning a major, as Thailand's Patty (Paphangkorn) Tavatanakit achieved last weekend.
Difficult times for the Blades and the Owls
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 27/03/2021
» It has not been a good year for football fans in the city of Sheffield, with United almost certain to drop out of the Premier League and Sheffield Wednesday clinging on by their fingernails in the Championship relegation battle. So what's gone wrong for the teams in the City of Steel?
The Saint who became a Liverpool icon and television pundit
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 06/03/2021
» There was a lovely piece of graffiti that appeared on a church poster in Liverpool in the 1960s which posed the question: "What would you do if Jesus returned amongst us?" Underneath someone had scrawled: "Move St John to inside left."
Boost for Wilder as Blades finally show their steel
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/01/2021
» Few Premier League fans will begrudge Sheffield United picking up their first win of the season at the 18th attempt, when they deservedly defeated Newcastle United 1-0 at Bramall Lane on Tuesday night.
From playing fields to the battlefields
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/05/2020
» The grim report read: "All sport in the country stopped because emergency regulations forbade the assembly of large crowds."
The real scrap is down at the bottom
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 01/02/2020
» With Juergen Klopp's Liverpool running away with the title in grand style, apart from the customary scramble for European places, the main interest in the Premier League for many fans has switched to the bottom half of the table and the battle to avoid relegation.
You just can't beat late goal for real drama
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/01/2020
» One undeniable factor that contributes to making football an attractive sport to watch is its unpredictability -- and nothing can be more unpredictable than a late goal deep in added time that can turn a match on its head.
A football fan's place is not on pitch
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/03/2019
» When I watched Reading at Elm Park as a kid back in pre-historic times, a few minutes before the final whistle, over the public address system would come the stern message: "Please don't run on the pitch after the match." Of course as soon as the final whistle sounded, dozens of kids would run onto the pitch, for the simple reason they had just been told not to.