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‘A Hoax Concealed Within a Puzzle Adrift in a Maze’
in Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 12 commentsWritten by Bob Pearce. Whenever I say something to you I will be working to get you to see…
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How Do We Restart? Weighting Our Way Through the Maze
By Graeme Riley. It’s been a while. I thought I’d pop back and visit an old friend in TTT,…
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Who Needs Football When There’s Music? A Break From The Madness of Must-Win Weekly
In the past week or so, few people on this site found themselves talking about football, when before that’s…
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Pretty Confused, Huh?
in Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 17 commentsBy Bob Pearce. Introduction. I’ve been working on a large writing project for a few months now, looking at…
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Covid-19 – A Selection of TTT Subscribers’ Wisdom
Being in two at-risk groups – immune compromised and asthmatic (and just a year outside the 50+ warning zone)…
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Catching Up On Lost Time: The Quest For Fan “Authenticity”
By Amy Gaeta. “We’ve waited 30 years for this.” How many times in the past few months have we…
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Coronavirus to Derail Liverpool’s Title? Football As A Matter of Life and Death
Like a lot of jokes, there was some truth in what Bill Shankly said. “Some people think football is…
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Our Action Heroes: Prepared, Confident and Considered
Written by Andrew Tangas (TTT Subscriber Andrew). “That’s your problem, you think you’re infallible! You think you can’t make a…
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Can We Drop Our Genius?
in Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 14 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Bob Pearce. You may like to think that when we call someone a ‘Genius’ we are…
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Saturday, 3pm: A Requiem (Joys and Sorrows)
Whereas Saturday at 3pm used to be the most normal thing about football, now it’s almost a sign as…
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Specialism, Marginal Gains, the Ministry of Nudge and an Apology to Extinct Dinosaurs
By TTT Subscriber El Indio. In the full face of 90 minutes of action-packed match unfolding in front of…
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The Winner Doesn’t Take It All: Thoughts On Football, Feelings and Belief
in Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 34 commentsBy David Fitzgerald (TTT Subscriber Mädchenkliop). Do you ever wonder, are we all in denial? All the time? Sports…
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Destiny Calling …
in Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 28 commentsBy Harry Wicks (TTT Subscriber divilmint). I couldn’t sleep last night. Five nights to go and already I can’t…
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Playing a Different Sport
By TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen. Something occurred to me today that was at once so blindingly obvious and yet…
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The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 11: ‘From Hero to Zero’
By our Mystery Correspondent Per Dantic. The commentators love saying ‘From Hero to Zero’. They do it to show how…
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The Secret Pundit Takes on The Commentators, Part 10: ‘The Worst Possible Start’
in Exclusive, Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only / / 2 commentsBy our mystery correspondent Per Dantic. You’ll learn that one in your first week at commentators’ classes. The commentators say…
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Are We All in This Together?
By TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. I’ve got a genuine question here for all, as again, as while the result is…
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The Shelter, The Zlatan Fan and a Moment to Remember Forever
in Free, Personal Thoughts / / 17 commentsThis doesn’t happen everyday. A homeless service, a place that can be chaotic or tranquil, that can be an end…
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The Secret Pundit Takes on the Commentators, Part 2 – “At This Level You Will Get Punished”
in Media Muppet of the Week, Media Watch, Personal Thoughts, Subscribers Only, Talking Point / / 16 commentsBy our mystery correspondent P. Dantic. That’s something commentators sometimes like to say isn’t it? ‘At this level you will…
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My Day at the Match – Crystal Palace (H) August 19th 2017
By TTT Subscriber REDM: It’s the first home match of the season and we leave the house at just after…
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Philippe Coutinho, FSG and Game Theory
By TTT Subscriber Mark Cohen, responding to Paul Tomkins’ ‘Football Is No Fun Anymore’ article. Tour de force Tomkins… well…
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Listen to Jürgen: Coutinho is Not For Sale.
This superb comment was posted on July 26th, just after midnight UK time, by TTT Subscriber Joe Bloggs. It’s so…
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Depression, Illness, Football, Snide, Snark and Erotic Aardvarks
So, something a little different today – although not something completely different. (This is not, after all, an essay on…
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My Day at the Match – Southampton (H) May 7th 2017. Another Day of Anti-Football
by Chris Rowland. As ever, transport problems dominate ahead of the game itself. It seems not one but two trains…
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My Day at the Match – Everton (H). Make it the Derby, Will You!
By TTT Subscriber Taskin Ismet. This is a trip that started just over 18 years ago. But don’t worry, I’ll…
