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Good morning, everybody! It may not mean very much to any of you lot – and who, after all, could blame you? – but on this day exac… Read More

Those amongst you with long memories will probably remember our cartoon series, Shit Shot Mungo. Over the course of 110 cartoons and a handful… Read More

Ten years ago today, I opened my laptop and wrote a couple of hundred words that ended with the sentence, “More to follow very soon, bec… Read More

Good evening everybody. Subscribers to the Twohundredpercent e-magazine will have heard the gentle plop of an attachment hitting their in… Read More

It says something for the condition of the club in recent years that the extent to which Aston Villa were swept aside… Read More

The 25th September 1982 was one of the more remarkable days in the recent history of top flight football in England… Read More

It is a curious anomaly that a Premier League season that has started with a somewhat muted feel to it than previous… Read More

My team, Bostik League Premier Division Kingstonian (Bostik? Evo-Stik? Rhyming adhesives and non-league football&hell… Read More

Over the last two or three seasons, Southampton and Liverpool may just have become the first two English clubs to bui… Read More

Liverpool continue their Champions League adventure with the return leg of their qualifying match against Hoffenheim… Read More

On paper at least, a League Two match between Stevenage and Grimsby Town would hardly be expected to be the sort of f… Read More

Barnet make the trip down to the south coast this evening to play Brighton & Hove Albion in the League Cup. The B… Read More

Football’s genuine status as “only a game” was perfectly demonstrated by comparing Scottish footbal… Read More

In this evening’s live Premier League match, Manchester City take on Everton at the Etihad Stadium. This has be… Read More

At the very top end of professional football, there is no such thing as a “bad” player. The days of the c… Read More

Younger supporters shocked by Newcastle United’s recent relegations from the Premier League may be surprised to… Read More

Coventry City travel to Somerset to play Yeovil Town in League Two this afternoon, whilst Manchester United seek to c… Read More

Five games into the Football League Championship season, there are surprising faces at the top of the table. Cardiff… Read More

This week’s Twohundredpercent finally gets around to a subject that we should have covered a while ago. It&rsqu… Read More

Glenn Tamplin was background noise to my summer, merely the latest wealthy narcissist ejaculating wealth and narcissi… Read More

There is a football ground a short walk from my house, and on Saturday afternoons I can, should I be so disposed, kee… Read More

This week’s Twohundredpercent podcast is ready, and it’s focussed on the transfer deadline day dealings o… Read More

West Ham United seek to kick-start their faltering Premier League season with a home league match against Huddersfiel… Read More

“Even Fifa has its limits. Doesn’t it?” So ended Nick Harris’s November 2015 profile of Fifa… Read More

There’s a lot of snobbery in modern Britain, and at the time that Crystal Palace… Read More

Finsbury Park has seldom , if ever, seen anything like it before. More than twenty thousand supporters of 1FC K… Read More

There comes a point at which you have to admit that you’re over-stretching yourself. Some of you may already be… Read More

In May, FIFA sacked “did not renew the mandate of” its Ethics Committee co-chairs, Cornel Borbely an… Read More

In theory, a big part of the appeal of football as a game is its simplicity. All you really need to play is a ball (o… Read More

I’m away from the website this week, writing furiously for the last episode of the Twohundredpercent magazine… Read More

It seems to be one of the more immutable rules of life that, for an organisation as hopelessly bone-headed as the &ld… Read More

I’ve been watching football for pushing forty years, now, and in spite of numerous serious challengers, there r… Read More

With the start of another football season comes another rash of new ball designs by various sporting manufacturers. A… Read More

If there’s one thing that we know about modern football above just about anything else, it’s that modern… Read More

Perhaps this marks me out as the worst sort of rubber-necker, but there is something that I find strangely enjoyable… Read More

On 19th September, I watched England’s women players descending en masse towards their then-manager Mark Sampso… Read More

There can be little doubt that Altrincham Football Club is one of the great names of non-league football. Twice winne… Read More

It is a fair enough criticism to suggest that we here at Twohundredpercent can have a tendency to eulogise the past a… Read More

For more than a quarter of the Twentieth Century, English football was dominated by a new way of thinking. A Sociali… Read More

If there is something about truly great inventions that marks them out from the rest, it’s that they drift so s… Read More

Hey, we’re in the play-offs. But first, a confession. I wrote much of this article over the weekend, starting a… Read More

For all of their heritage, there is a very real sense in which Argentina’s World Cup victories in 1978 and 198… Read More

The English game has never produced a figure quite so divisive, so controversial and so widely reviled as Donald George Revie… Read More

In the rarefied atmosphere of twenty-first century soccer, job applications from people with no previous managerial experience t… Read More

It is the late summer of 1975 and at Nottingham railway station, a cub sports reporter for Radio Trent called Clive Tyldesley ha… Read More

Very few figures from the history of association football are better remembered for something they created than for something th… Read More

The date is Friday, 17th June 1994. Two major events are unfolding in the United States of America and neither of them involved… Read More

This evening at The American Express Community Stadium, Brighton & Hove Albion play Crystal Palace in one of the most eagerly awaited ties of this this year’s FA Cup Third Round. N… Read More

The 2018 ConIFA World Football Championships begin in nine days time, so we’re kicking off our preview of the tournament with a quick look at the venues that will be used for the final… Read More

So. Farewell, then. Most of Ireland. ‘Championship’ is down to football’s “super8s,” (superbs?) in the style sub-editors appear instructed to use, and hurling&r… Read More

It’s an accidental phenomenon brought on by its four year cycle, but one of the more curious aspects of the World Cup is the way in which memories of previous tournaments can transport… Read More

It was on this weekend last year that I took my elder son Dylan to his first football match. He had no interest in the game, of course, but he did have an interest in eating chips and drinki… Read More

It was never quite home to the supporters of the club, but it was the best that they could manage at the time. When Brighton & Hove Albion lost The Goldstone Ground in 1997 and moved to… Read More

It may be difficult to believe from the title, but this week’s podcast is on the subject of Matthew Le Tissier. Mr Southampton. More than five hundred appearances, and more than two hu… Read More

New year, new podcast. It’s time to get 2019 under way on the 200% podcast, and our subject this week is a Netflix series that was released before Christmas. Sunderland Til I Die has e… Read More

Planet football may have more nations upon it than planet earth. But it is, as we know, all-too-often viewed through the prism of its “greatest league,” the English Premier Leagu… Read More

For this week’s 200% podcast, we’re joined by the author Daniel Gray to talk about his new book, Black Boots & Football Pinks, as well as the value of nostalgia in modern foo… Read More

This week on the 200% podcast our topic of conversation is Swindon Town, a football club which has had more than its fair share of ups and downs in recent years. In the interests of research… Read More

The 200% Podcast 306: Don’t Call It a Reunion Association Football returns as the mainstay of the Twohundredpercent podcast from this week and it is like Edward and Ian have never been… Read More