Intro
Welcome to the inaugural post on This Is Not Football. If this were The Apprentice then the next couple of paragraphs would breathlessly expound on how this website is unlike […]
View ArticleNew York State Of Mind
Fair enough, there are only about two news articles on this site so far and they contain ‘considered’ speculation that Leighton Baines will be sold to pay for Steven Pienaar. […]
View ArticleSome Ace Podcasts
Some time off work means updates aplenty – to make up for most weeks when we are lucky if there’s even one to coincide with an Everton game. All football […]
View ArticleEverton Miscellany Competition
Wotcha, lids, lidettes and even your young lidls. We have three copies of the 2012 updated edition of the Everton Miscellany to give away. If you want it as a […]
View ArticleBeing: Liverpool: Director’s: Cut
This Is Not Football is giddy at receiving the first ever guest piece, written by Miles Shackley. Read on and you will understand why. [The episode opens with a clip […]
View ArticleBeing: Liverpool: Part: Deux
Another installment of the eerily accurate Being: Liverpool courtesy of Mr Miles Shackley. Joe Garston : Things have improved since the last time we spoke. There’s finally smiles on the faces […]
View ArticleThe Everton Encyclopedia
We interviewed James Corbett a while ago, and he mentioned working on The Everton Encyclopedia as well as Neville Southall’s Binman Chronicles. Well, it’s finished, printed and available to buy now […]
View Article10 Search Terms
If like us you are a top SEO expert then you will already know that in the admin bit of your website you can see the terms that people have […]
View ArticleNew Blue Tone T-Shirts
The rather talented Nick at Blue Tone has a couple of new designs available, and right smart they are too. Have a proper gander at them, and his other Everton-themed […]
View ArticleSummer Reading Review
Three books, two of them newish, one of them about 10 years old, and each with its own qualities and faults. Graham Hunter’s Barca has won awards for his […]
View ArticleBlack And White
It appears that Roberto Martinez is ushering in a new era at Everton that will represent the polar opposite of everything that took place under the yoke of David Moyes. […]
View ArticleBeing: Brendan
(by Miles Shackley) August 17th, 2013 The new season has begun. Liverpool Football Club are looking to build on a promising end to the previous season by coming out […]
View ArticleHappy New Year
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View ArticleBit of an update
As you can probably tell, the website looks a little bit different than it has for a while. Essentially it Continue reading →
View ArticleEverton 1 West Ham United 1
We’ve said it before, but last-minute game-changing goals make writing about matches difficult. In the cold light of day do you reflect the feeling of injury-time elation, ignoring the vast majority of...
View ArticleYoung Boys and Leicester and That
You only write when we’re winning, write when we’re winning. Wagwan? It’s been a while. Moving house, having no proper internet and Everton generally being pretty, well, boring, to be perfectly honest,...
View ArticleYoung Boys of Berne, Arsenal, Lacoste and That
Right, same again, another cut and shunt report where we weld the rusting arse end of the Arsenal game to the chassis of the Swiss and hope that no one asks for the logbook. There is a discount on...
View ArticleStoke City and Roberto Martinez and That
Remember them sinister pencil drawings by sixth formers that used to adorn the walls of the art department at school? There was always one of an iron or a kettle, and the distorted impression of the...
View ArticleKiev, QPR, Everton And That
Was it Black Grape who had an album called ‘You Only Write When We’re Shite, Yeah!’? Anyway, such is life, it’s been a while again. How have you been? The kids ok? Sorted that other thing with...
View ArticleBurnley And The Footy And That
We could probably reduce the match report and indeed the rest of the season to three simple words. Is. Anybody. Arsed? The nitrous oxide-crazed youth of today would probably be even more succinct....
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