Sabotage Times, We can't Concentrate so Why Should You?

Brian McDermott can’t have too long on the beach if he wants to hit the 2013/14 season running, and he could do a lot worse by getting Phil Neville on the blower…

Yes it was a bad tackle and yes, McManaman should have been carded and serve a three match ban. But why are fans on Twitter so desperate for a 21 year old to be lynched and paraded round town with his head on a stick?

Living in Denmark I didn’t just learn the lingo and get used to eating fish for breakfast, I fell in love with the furniture. Big time…

We’re not the homophobic neanderthals that we’re made out to be and I know that, at Barnsley, if anyone did come out he would have no problem whatsoever. But the media scrum that would follow would be a different matter…

We demand trophies. We demand goals. We demand the top players. We demand entertainment. Roman Abramovich isn’t the evil dictator, he’s just a normal modern football fan with a lot of cash.

It’s fifteen years to the day since the untimely death of the INXS frontman . . .

Arsene Wenger’s admiration is no secret after Arsenal legend Bob Wilson revealed his interest in Reina last year and if he’s thinking of opening the coffers to bring in Reina, it’d be a masterstroke…

How a forty minute performance was enough to show me Ibra was one of the World’s best footballers.

Fans seem to go into apoplectic fits every time a player misses a penalty. But it’s harder than it looks in a big game. Here’s how to do it.

Why getting all shirty about players swapping strips during the game is a waste of energy. As a professional football I saw It happen every week at every ground…

Michael Owen is not only the most boring man alive. Despite his protestations; he’s a diver. A little bit of cheating is no better than being a big cheat Michael..

With the FA branding Ashley Cole a liar, I think he has every right to vent his anger at the suits who run the English game…

Joe Hart’s performance against Dortmund stole a point for his team in the Champions League but does that make him the best? David Preece doesn’t think so . . .

Fine foods, mushroom foam and Pussy mixed with gin at Pret-A-Diner’s pop-up at The Royal Academy…

Roy McDonough, football’s most red carded player, chronicles his life through a pint glass…

After winning the US Open with one of the greatest finals of Men’s tennis ever, it’s about time we got off Murray’s back. He’s a true Brit and I think he’s brilliant.

In the wake of Foderingham’s moment of madness and Di Canio’s subsequent interview of madness, here we address unintended PR & the issue of managerial respect from modern day footballers

As Portsmouth Football Club’s destiny is hanging in the balance, professional footballer David Preece reveals what it’s like to train with the club at this time of crisis.

The whole Rangers/Newco debacle has plunged an already waning game into turmoil but far from leading to the death of Scottish football, could this be it’s rebirth?

Jacob Butterfield has finally completed his move away from Barnsley, with Norwich City winning the race for his signature. Here’s what Canaries can expect from their new midfielder…

When the rest of the world was falling in love with Maradona at the 1986 World Cup, I began my obsession with Michael Laudrup. Here’s an appreciation on Swansea’s new manager.

Fergie has said he’s not up to two games in four days and if Roy Hodgson says it’s for football reasons then Rio should keep schtum and tell his advisors to do the same…

Nigel Adkins is set to break a club record fee to bring the Burnley marksmen to St. Mary’s. But can Jay Rodriguez make the step up to the Premier League?

BBC’s Panorama exposed racism in the host nations of Euro 2012 but before any fingers are pointed we should take a long hard look at our own society…

Ricardo Vaz Te’s journey back to the Premier League has been rocky in more ways than one and former teammate David Preece recalls how his breaking became his making.

Crystal Palace’s on loan defender, Paul McShane, springs a couple of surprises on us with Palace’s choice of pre-match tunes

Norwich City have been one of the revelations of the Premier League this season. Could these tunes that the players spin before a game have anything to do with it?

It hasn’t been the best of season’s for Sir Alex’s old side so perhaps it’s down to pre-match preparation. Ask yourself, would Graeme Park approve of Aberdeen F.C.’s playlist?

We all get the end of season blues but for some of us it could also bring the end of a career. One player describes the insecurity involved in a life in football.

You can’t go into a game without the right tunes that’s why the dressing room playlist is crucial to a team’s performance. Here’s Barnsley FC’s…

He was detested by a lot of people when he was at Manchester United, but Gary Neville’s astute summary of diving in football is the latest example of why he is the best pundit there is…

With Both Reina And Doni Getting Themselves Sent Off This Week, Brad Jones Stands Alone As Liverpool’s Only Senior Keeper. Time For Kenny To Shore Up His Reserves?

Footballers are renowed for their naff taste in music but in this series, we delve into what tunes get played in dressing rooms just before kickoff

Andy Carroll has said that he won’t celebrate if he scores for Liverpool against Newcastle. He probably won’t anyway, but if he does and follows through then it’s two fingers at his new supporters…

It’s often thought that genius is in the DNA and unlocked by pushy parents. But Stuart Owen has proved that the average kid can progress rapidly by making the learning process fun….

With Biggles Parker throwing his body on the line and England struggling to pass the ball in the final third, we were again shown up as a nation of battlers with the creativity of a wet towel…

Look at your lad and then look at this: you want to buy some, don’t you?

His style of football is sneered at by the game’s elite, but is it time for Sam Allardyce to stop being so apologetic about it and mount a campaign to become England gaffer?

Today the administrators have sacked everyone at Darlington. David Preece remembers the day George Reynolds took over, how he screwed him personally and began to kill the club…

New Sabotage Times columnist and Barnsley keeper, David Preece, reveals the difficulties of coming on cold off the bench, a potential pitfall Arsenal stopper Vito Mannone knows all about.

New Sabotage Times columnist and Barnsley keeper, David Preece, put forward the case for his ex-teammate as the saviour of the Red Devils…