Mark Thompson

Hello, and welcome back to Get Goalside!. Now that GG is back, we’ll be encouraging readers to donate to a different charity each week. This week’s is Mermaids, who support trans young people under 20 and their families, and provide informational resources. If an international pandemic wasn’t

I don’t think there’ll be another Get Goalside! newsletter for a while. The latest, reviewing my opinion of a potential Harry Maguire transfer in the summer, opened with this line: Opinions are thrown out like bread to ducks: relatively cheaply, for only shallow and temporary benefit to yourself

People are often not very good at judging their own predictions. Usually this is because we forget them. Which is usually because we don’t put much thought into them. Opinions are thrown out like bread to ducks: relatively cheaply, for only shallow and temporary benefit to yourself and forgotten

I started this blog post as a thought experiment about what you’d do if you were hired as the Manchester United Director of Football (assuming you placed job over whatever club loyalty you might have and decided not to burn the whole place to the ground). But then I

The promise of Sam Kerr was that she’d score goals. No. The promise of Sam Kerr was that she was, is, one of the top forwards in the world and she was finally coming to England, still in her peak, after years in America and Australia. And that she’