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Get Shirty – Why are players booked for taking their shirts off?

by simonwinter2011@gmail.com

February 24, 2025

Explore the curious case of players being booked for taking their shirts off—how 2004’s joy-limiting rules were scrapped, yet the reasoning behind it left more questions than answers.

Football

Fear and loathing in the stands: the strange, twisted relationship between football and drugs

Football and drugs. Two elements of modern life that have been inextricably linked for decades, both feeding into each other like a never-ending ouroboros of excess, delirium, and chaos.

The great rip-off: how English football sold its soul and priced out the working class

Football has been lifted out of our reach, wrapped in silk and

Scholes, Lampard or Gerrard - who was best?

The endless Gerrard vs Scholes vs Lampard debate

Who was best? Gerrard, Lampard or Scholes? Does it matter or should

When football clubs lost the plot: the strangest managerial appointments in English football

June 16, 2025

Rooney is on the wane

February 24, 2025

Archive·Opinion

He is a watered-down single-malt whiskey. He is badly cut cocaine. He is a rock song in a vacuum. He is Rooney on the wane. (Originally written in November 2015)

Leeds United and the Fall of Icarus: a tale of hubris, gold, and ruin

February 21, 2025

Football

In the annals of English football, few fables are as grandiose or as calamitous as the rise and fall of Leeds United at the turn of the millennium.

Back-Post interview: Ian Rush

February 20, 2025

Archive·Interviews

Padraig Byrne sat down for a chat with Liverpool legend Ian Rush back in 2015. Read the interview here. (Originally published in April 2015)

Arsene Wenger: The Early Years

February 18, 2025

Football

Arsene Wenger is most famous for his work with Arsenal, whom he took over in 1996 and has won multiple trophies for, however, one would be forgiven for not remembering his work prior to his Gunners career.

José Mourinho: Portrait of an asshole

February 18, 2025

Premier League

Get Shirty – Why are players booked for taking their shirts off?

Fear and loathing in the stands: the strange, twisted relationship between football and drugs

The great rip-off: how English football sold its soul and priced out the working class

The endless Gerrard vs Scholes vs Lampard debate

When football clubs lost the plot: the strangest managerial appointments in English football

Rooney is on the wane

Leeds United and the Fall of Icarus: a tale of hubris, gold, and ruin

Back-Post interview: Ian Rush

Arsene Wenger: The Early Years

José Mourinho: Portrait of an asshole

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