Before we start, I know what you’re thinking - That makes no sense! Well yes. But let me explain. Some transfers are appalling. So appalling that they have no value whatsoever save the comical. Ali Dia’s brief hoodwinking of Graeme Souness for example or Robbie Keane’s tragic-comic attempts to play for…

Football FanCast columnist Oscar Pye-Jeary reflects on the World Cup draw. Barely a day passes at FIFA without some kind of farcical goings on. Whether it’s yet another opportunity to drag the ever tuxedo’s Pele away from his presumably constant virile love making to present an unnecessary award, a crass…

New Football FanCast columnist Oscar Pye-Jeary reflects on Mousier Henry’s midweek antics. So the French are leaping for joy and the Irish are hopping mad, and I’m trying to decide how tasteful it would be to get a reference to frogs or leprechauns into that sentence. And no matter how inappropriate,…