Confession time – on a recent trip to Liverpool I took the opportunity to visit Anfield. I took the stadium tour and found myself envying one particular feature of their history – their achievements in Europe. For the record they have won six Champions Leagues (or European Cups) and three UEFA Cups. They’ve also won […]
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The Life Story of a Very Brave Gooner
Posted in Fan Experience, Interlull on Jan 15th, 2024
One of the great blessings of being part of a community is that you get a chance to meet a variety of people. At Goonerholics Forever we have been lucky to acquire some new regular posters from all over the world, all with very interesting and important life experiences and all with a deep shared […]
I never enjoyed getting half-term reports at school. Being the subject of intense scrutiny and evaluation of performance was not as common when I was a schoolboy as it is now and the recipients of the report were very heavily invested in my progress emotionally and financially and their expectations were high. That might describe […]
Goonerholics around the world discuss the season so far
Posted in Fan Experience, Interlull, Season Review, Waffle on Nov 19th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images One of the cliches that is regularly trotted out on sports media programmes is that ‘Football is a game of opinions.’ Cliché it may be but the reality is that the debate and discussion between fans, which after all is one of the main reasons that the original Goonerholic blog was created, […]
The problem I was discussing VAR recently with a patient who was in favour of it purely on the basis that it has reduced the amount of cheating, diving, rolling around and conning of referees, as players know that they will not get away with it under the scrutiny of VAR’s cameras. Whether it has […]