Reuben Pinder

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Reuben is a JOE contributing writer.

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  • Null and void: South Shields FC lead appeal against FA decision

    Null and void: South Shields FC lead appeal against FA decision

    Can you wipe a season off the record? What happens to a player’s career goal record if a season is declared null and void? What do you do about fines handed out for yellow and red cards? These are minor details but just two of several questions to be asked in response to the FA’s […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 184

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 184

    Sponsored by Fiverr Life is strange at the moment. Very, very strange. We are living through a pandemic and for many of us, it hasn’t quite computed in the brain. It’s all very surreal, isn’t it? Some people will be hit hard by the drastic changes to their lives, unable to adapt and work from […]

    6 years ago

  • Inside Spain: One of the worst affected countries of the COVID-19 outbreak

    Inside Spain: One of the worst affected countries of the COVID-19 outbreak

    The country has struggled enormously with the COVID-19 outbreak Despite having time to prepare and the examples of other countries to avoid replicating, Spain has found itself decimated by the outbreak of COVID-19. The country has the highest daily death toll of any nation since the pandemic began this year, with 738 dying in just […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 183

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 183

    How did you manage your first week working from home? Have you developed an addiction to toast yet? Do you need a break? Take the quiz

    6 years ago

  • Title on Hold: The Liverpool of Sunday League

    Title on Hold: The Liverpool of Sunday League

    Christ Church East Greenwich were having a wonderful season The Sunday League side from London were top of their league, eight points clear of second place and nine points clear of third, and required just a solitary point to gain promotion. Then the coronavirus struck. The outbreak of COVID-19 has left many societies in lockdown, […]

    6 years ago

  • How should football resolve the season if it can’t be finished?

    How should football resolve the season if it can’t be finished?

    Three Leicester City players have self-isolated With the Premier League and the EFL now suspended until April 4th at the very earliest due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is uncertain how and when the football season will be concluded. Leicester City fan Jamie Thorpe spoke to JOE about football’s response to the outbreak, emphasising that […]

    6 years ago

  • How coronavirus brought LaLiga to a halt

    How coronavirus brought LaLiga to a halt

    LaLiga has been suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak As the coronavirus spreads throughout Europe at an exponential rate, football leagues from across the continent have suspended all matches for the foreseeable future. LaLiga took the decision to postpone all fixtures for at least the next two round of matches after a player on the […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 181

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 181

    Get your quiz here, get your quiz here, 25 questions of mouth-watering trivia, pixelated celebrities and proper head-scratchers

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Prize details: 1x pair of 2x tickets England v Wales – Guinness Six Nations 2020, Twickenham Stadium, 200 Whitton Rd, Twickenham TW2 7BA on Saturday 2020 at 4:45pm Terms and Conditions To enter the competition on the event night (at The Depot, Cardiff on 3rd March 2020) – entrants must take a raffle ticket upon […]

    6 years ago

  • El Clásico quiz: How much do you know about Real Madrid and Barcelona?

    El Clásico quiz: How much do you know about Real Madrid and Barcelona?

    It’s one of the most historic rivalries in football It should tell you everything you need to know about the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona that countless other rivalries have names badly adapted from ‘El Clásico.’ The derby between LA Galaxy and LAFC, for example, has been dubbed El Traffico. I know, tinpot. But […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 180

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 180

    Write the quiz, publish the quiz, post the quiz, God life’s relentless There’s very little to be optimistic about at the moment. The coronavirus is spreading like wildfire. Our summer of sport could be ruined as a result. The weather shows no signs of improving just yet. A no-deal Brexit looks increasingly likely. And Liverpool […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 179

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 179

    This week I would like to draw your attention to a man called Dave It was the Brit Awards this week. The annual celebration of British music provided yet another historic performance from one of the most important cultural voices this country has to offer. Two years after Stormzy highlighted the government’s inadequate response to […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 178

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 178

    Your weekly dose of quizzing to numb the pain of another Valentine’s Day in the company of your own feelings – we’re here for you

    6 years ago

  • The making of Glenn Tamplin: Faith, family and football

    The making of Glenn Tamplin: Faith, family and football

    Meet the man on a mission from God to take Romford to the football league What is the meaning of life? That is the question that we, the human race, have been trying and failing to answer since forever. One man who has found an answer to that question, though, is Glenn Tamplin. The self […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 177

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 177

    Your weekly dose of quizzing, featuring rounds on breeds of animals, the Oscars, American politics and your usual sport and general knowledge rounds

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 175

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 175

    In the 175th edition of the JOE Pub Quiz, we test your knowledge of: weather, sport, food, fictional pubs and of course, general knowledge.

    6 years ago

  • Ilkay Gundogan explains German football phrases

    Ilkay Gundogan explains German football phrases

    The German language is a beautiful thing In English, if you want to convey the fact that you have taken pleasure from another person’s misfortune, you’ll have to use those words. All of them. Alternatively, you could use the singular German word for this phenomenon: schadenfreude. This use of single words to explain complex emotions […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 173

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 173

    What a week What a week for beef in particular. Everyone seems to be beefing. In the world of geopolitics, the US have put the wheels in motion for a nuclear war with Iran by assassinating Quasem Soleimani. In the world of music, Stormzy and Wiley continue to debate online for no apparent reason other […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 172

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 172

    Happy New Year January is without question the worst month of the year, change my mind. Actually, don’t, because you can’t. Everyone is broke, having spent a fortune over Christmas, trying to make that early December paycheque last what feels like an eternity. Just when you think you’ve endured the worst of winter, the weather […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 171

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 171

    The Big Fat JOE Quiz of 2019 Welcome to the final JOE Friday Pub Quiz of the year, and the decade. A lot has changed since 2010 – Liverpool went from floating above relegation under Roy Hodgson to dominating both domestically and on the world stage; the United States went from Barack Obama to Donald […]

    6 years ago

  • Tackling youth crime with Wilfried Zaha

    Tackling youth crime with Wilfried Zaha

    Wilfried Zaha knows the challenges of growing up in Croydon. We visited a custody suite with him to find out how Divert are helping prevent reoffending

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 170

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 170

    What is the meaning of Christmas? It is a question that we ponder every year, a question to which there is no correct answer. During childhood, the excitement for Christmas centres around presents. Understandably, with little understanding of anything more complex than ‘having fun’ and ‘being naughty’, Christmas was the most exciting time of the […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Need for Speed Heat Giveaway

    Terms and Conditions: Need for Speed Heat Giveaway

    Prize details: 1x copy of Need for Speed Heat on either PlayStation 4 or XBOX One 1x Need for Speed hoodie 1x Need for Speed keyring There will be 10x winners selected across two separate competitions, one competition for PS4 and one for XBOX One. In total five copies of the game on PlayStation 4 […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 169

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 169

    A politics free edition of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, featuring rounds on Christmas songs, the Has Fallen film franchise, music, sport and general knowledge

    6 years ago

  • Why footballers up their game for caretaker managers

    Why footballers up their game for caretaker managers

    Sponsored by Paddy Power “That’s what football’s all about.” Everton bounced back from a poor run of form to beat Chelsea 3-1 at Goodison Park this weekend, completely re-energised under caretaker boss and club legend Duncan Ferguson. They made 37 tackles – the most one team has made in a match in a decade. It’s […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 168

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 168

    19 days until Christmas, baby Is anyone else getting to that point in December where, it’s all getting a bit much? You’ haven’t started your shopping, you’ve still got to work out where to take your remaining annual leave, you’ve got someone in secret Santa with whom you’ve only ever exchanged awkward pleasantries about the […]

    6 years ago

  • Meet the only out gay referee in men’s professional football

    Meet the only out gay referee in men’s professional football

    “We’ve seen, especially this year, a prevalent increase in reported incidents of homophobia and racism.” There are no out gay footballers in English football and only a small number of footballers who have ever played in England have actually come out after retiring. Despite progress made, homophobia remains an enormous problem in British society and […]

    6 years ago

  • The difference between Jose Mourinho in the press and with his players

    The difference between Jose Mourinho in the press and with his players

    Sponsored by Paddy Power Jose Mourinho is a divisive character Mourinho’s appointment at Tottenham was understandably met with scepticism given how his last three jobs descended into chaos and internal battles with players, eventually rendering his position untenable. Throughout his managerial career, Mourinho has supplied plenty of gems in press conferences, most notably dubbing himself […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: 167

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: 167

    Another week, another quiz, another managerial sacking. Farewell, Unai. Your flat defensive midfield trio just wasn’t suited to the PL, no hard feelings m8

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 166

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 166

    Pouring one out for Pochettino Since the news of Mauricio Pochettino’s sacking broke on Tuesday night, it’s been the only thing on my mind. And for the most box office manager in the history of the game, Jose fucking Mourinho, to replace him? Wow. This is why we love the Barclays. The pure, unadulterated chaos […]

    6 years ago

  • Tottenham fans react to the appointment of Jose Mourinho

    Tottenham fans react to the appointment of Jose Mourinho

    Jose Mourinho is the new Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino was relieved of his duties as Tottenham manager on Tuesday night. It was news that rocked the world. Even after a poor start to the season, very few expected chairman Daniel Levy to pull the trigger so soon. What came as arguably an even bigger […]

    6 years ago

  • Mourinho next? And other Spurs questions after Pochettino’s sacking

    Mourinho next? And other Spurs questions after Pochettino’s sacking

    Mauricio Pochettino has left Tottenham Hotspur Read it again. Drink it in. Mauricio Pochettino has left Tottenham Hotspur. Even in the midst of their worst run of form since the Argentine arrived in north London, Daniel Levy’s decision to sack to him brought the footballing world to a halt. Tottenham’s website literally crashed due to […]

    6 years ago

  • Aitch on DMing Wayne Rooney and why he’s given up on American rap music

    Aitch on DMing Wayne Rooney and why he’s given up on American rap music

    Aitch is 19 years old Harrison Armstrong, more commonly known by the phonetic spelling of his first initial, has taken the UK rap scene by storm over the past year. Before his 20th birthday, he boasts a number 2 in the charts and a feature on Ed Sheeran’s chart topping Take me Back to London remix. […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 165

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 165

    Your weekly dose of nonsense to ease you into the weekend. General knowledge, sport, film descriptions, dogs and a ‘who said it’ round.

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 164

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 164

    Liquid Football had its first live show last night I am consequently writing this with a bad hangover. Really bad. Subscribe to Liquid Football. Or watch it here. Enjoy the quiz.

    6 years ago

  • Andre Gomes and the traumatic effect of suffering a horror injury

    Andre Gomes and the traumatic effect of suffering a horror injury

    Sponsored by Paddy Power The panel discussed their experiences of bad injuries and the tough road to recovery on this week’s Liquid Football After a chaotic weekend of football, the goals and gaffes felt almost irrelevant on Monday in the aftermath of Everton midfielder Andre Gomes’ horrific ankle injury which looks set to keep him sidelined […]

    6 years ago

  • QUIZ: Fill in the missing club from these players’ career paths – Part 3

    QUIZ: Fill in the missing club from these players’ career paths – Part 3

    It’s been a while. Welcome back. Weekends are made for football- watching it, playing it, reading about it and taking quizzes about it. Here to satisfy one of those demands is another edition of the popular quiz format: fill in the missing club in these players’ paths. It’s as straight forward as it sounds. All […]

    6 years ago

  • THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 163

    THE JOE FRIDAY PUB QUIZ: WEEK 163

    Here we, here we…. here we fucking go It’s election time baby, awoooooh (wolf howl.) For the fourth time in a decade, the British people will head to the polls to decide which party they hate the least. Just before Christmas too, the most wonderful time of the year. Full of cheer, generosity and arguments […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 162

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 162

    The 162nd edition of the JOE Pub Quiz, featuring rounds on sport, war films and the chaos that is the British Houses of Parliament

    6 years ago

  • Is this the best uncapped England XI?

    Is this the best uncapped England XI?

    Every international break throws up the same debate around Gareth Souhgate’s squad selection, so we compiled the best uncapped England XI

    7 years ago

  • Rebuilding your life after football

    Rebuilding your life after football

    “Once you get released, you feel worthless.” Josh Lukwata was released by Fulham at the age of 18 after spending nine years in their youth academy. Too short to make the grade as a professional goalkeeper, he had to find a new purpose in life. “As a footballer, you get all your self worth from […]

    7 years ago