Category Archives: sheffield

Catch of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 9, 2012

I actually spotted this on Sky News last night while looking out for the draw for the FA Cup 4th Round – something my boys like to toy with occasionally. And then I forgot about it while attempting to sleep in the heat and humidity of Cape Town. But then I was reminded of it by [...]

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Club Statement

By 6000 | 6000 | November 29, 2011

  Gary Speed MBE 8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011 Having been away from all radio, internet and cellphone contact this weekend (try it, you might like it), I was hugely shocked and saddened (as I’m sure many others were) to hear of the apparent suicide of Gary Speed – footballer, Wales manager and – [...]

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“If nobody’s listening, you can say whatever you want”

By 6000 | 6000 | October 17, 2011

There was an interesting article in the Grauniad this weekend entitled: “Jarvis Cocker: the secrets of Pulp’s songs” and featuring an except from his new book “Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics”, which is out later this week. Pulp were/are a Sheffield band and during their commercial height in the early to mid 90s had 5 [...]

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Fourteen nil

By 6000 | 6000 | August 1, 2011

File this one under “best pre-season friendly scorelines ever”: That’s a nice confidence booster ahead of the start of the season on Saturday. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

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Thinned Sheffield Sky

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2011

Earlier today, I was wandering around arepeejee’s flickr (you may remember him from such blog posts as What were the skies like when you were young? and Eccy Rd Hoff Stolen), having seen a link to this masterpiece. It was there that I saw the full version of this superb photo: “Sheffield Sky” …which I have thinned [...]

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