Mark Thompson

I’d planned to write this week’s Get Goalside! about the Copa del Rey final in advance. And then Valencia won it and I thought “oh, this’ll be good, can’t wait to watch the game back”. And then I watched the game back. It’s not that

Hi everyone. First of all, a couple of weeks back this lil niche newsletter passed 300 subscribers, which I’m taken aback and grateful for. Thanks to all of you who’ve subscribed. Secondly, between work and not 100% over the weekend-to-Monday period, I’ve decided to postpone this week’

I was hoping that the Premier League final day would be full of drama. It was not. Even though it took 28 minutes and going a goal down for Manchester City to score against Brighton, it was always going to happen. The first 15 minutes saw City take four shots

Hello again. The fun thing about this newsletter going out on a Tuesday means writing it on a Monday, which means waking up and seeing all the disgruntled tweets about Game of Thrones. It sets a nice low bar for me to clear. A player who’s had to clear

I was watching the Manchester Derby and, while there were a lot of other things to watch out for, it was Chris Smalling that sparked me wanting to write. I’ve been watching Smalling closely for a long time (in the context of my ‘watching-football-closely’ life, of maybe 5 years