ITV have replaced Clive Tyldesley as their main football commentator meaning he will not be covering England matches from now on

6 years ago

Selling N’Golo Kanté seems inadvisable but there are numerous factors at play, most significantly recurring injuries and tactics

6 years ago

Wesley Sneijder is eyeing up a return to top flight football and has begun training with a 5th tier side from his hometown in Holland

6 years ago

Premier League clubs are hoping to have stadiums at 40% capacity at the start of the 2020-21 season, whenever that may be

6 years ago

The brother of Spurs defender Serge Aurier has been shot dead in the French city of Toulouse, police have confirmed

6 years ago

Rose Lavelle reflects on the magnitude of change needed in America, and says the first step is admitting your own shortcomings

6 years ago

199 Pub Quizzes That’s a lot of quizzes. We’re approaching four years’ worth of pub quizzes. What shall we do to mark the big occasion? Suggestions in the comments please. Would you do a 200 question quiz? Let us know. If you’ve done every pub quiz on this website, which you probably haven’t but if, assuming you […]

6 years ago

Ever wondered how they make the crowd noise for the telly? We spoke to Andres from DAZN to find out how the secrets to subtle crowd noise

6 years ago

United have had more misses than hits in the transfer market since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 – we rate all of them out of 10

6 years ago

Lionel Messi’s career has been glittering and magnificent but there will always be that tragic linger of disappointment on the international stage

6 years ago

Dwight Yorke speaks to JOE about Manchester United’s recent turnaround in form and hails playmaker Bruno Fernandes as the catalyst

6 years ago

England bowler Jofra Archer discusses Black Lives Matter, his relationship with Ben Stokes and his love of Call of Duty, Warzone

6 years ago

This week’s pub quiz features rounds on lead singers in bands, when certain things happened, what beaches look like, sport and general knowledge

6 years ago

Jose Mourinho falsely claimed Didier Drogba scored 46 goals a season at Chelsea, but his record with strikers still has more hits than misses

6 years ago

Dejan Lovren vs David Luiz? Who will emerge as the most calamitous defender in the Premier League? We made 11 clones of each player to find out

6 years ago

Burnley fan Joe Golby set up a Stop Hate JustGiving page following the “white lives matter” banner that flew above the Etihad last week

6 years ago

Liverpool had to wait 30 years for a league title, here is a list of almost everything that happened during that time period

6 years ago

Liverpool are champions of England Congratulations. There was no contest in the end. Liverpool are deserved champions and it is a relief to see them clinch the title properly, rather than have it awarded to them – as fair as that would have been. While the matches behind closed doors have been eery and unsettlingly […]

6 years ago

Crystal Palace’s mascot, Kayla, died on Friday June 19th. She had been flying around Selhurst Park on matchdays for 10 years

6 years ago

JOE’s weekly pub quiz returns this week with rounds on general knowledge, sport, cheese, kitchen appliances and Winston Churchill

6 years ago

Liam Noble aka Big Mad Andy hosts a quiz between resident Peep Show experts Alex and Reuben to see who is JOE’s true Peep Show master

6 years ago

The first two Goal movies were fine if a bit cringeworthy, but the third? Well the third might just be the worst football film ever made

6 years ago

Black Lives Matter Protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of Edward Colston on Sunday during a Black Lives Matter protest. The statue was rolled towards and dumped into the river Avon. Edward Colston was a slave trader whose name pervades much of Bristol’s public spaces, like concert venue Colston Hall, and many schools that […]

6 years ago

Remember Michael Owen’s tour of Dubai? It’s rare you’ll find a footballer who pulls off a good performance in a TV advert. Even the less wooden ones are tarnished by the fact we all know them as footballers and not as actors. But some really take the biscuit. Take Michael Owen’s helicopter tour of Dubai […]

6 years ago

Newcastle United defender DeAndre Yedlin and Hector Bellerin discuss the Black Lives Matter movement following worldwide protests

6 years ago

Football’s coming home… I mean, yes, the United Kingdom’s death toll is still severalfold worse than the rest of Europe and we have seemingly given up on lockdown having made little to no progress in containing the virus. And yes, the Premier League is being prioritised due to the monstrous amount of money on the […]

6 years ago

Funny? Yes. A good person? Most definitely not. Mark Corrigan thinks he is the hero of Peep Show, a misunderstood hopeless romantic.  He’s actually a psychopath. The scientific community commonly defines a psychopath as someone who cannot form meaningful relationships, lacks empathy and remorse, and shows egotistical and manipulative traits. From stalking to waterboarding, Mark […]

6 years ago

RIP George Floyd I don’t really know what to write here this week. I want to write about the anger the tragedy of George Floyd’s death evokes in me, but that anger cannot begin to compare to that of the black community. His murder is just the most recent example of countless cold blooded racially […]

6 years ago

Football is back baby All 92 remaining Premier League matches will be televised, it was announced on Thursday afternoon. The English top flight will return on June 17, with games to be staggered across the weekend, with 10 different kick-off times. All of those games will be shown live by the Premier League’s existing broadcast […]

6 years ago

No parent should have to bury their own child The stigma around men’s mental health is steadily eroding. It is widely accepted, in theory if not in practice, that everyone fights their own internal battles, it does not make a man weak to suffer from mental health problems, and speaking to someone about your problems […]

6 years ago

Forget all those Zoom quizzes you’ve been forced to endure with your extended family. This is the real quiz. You’re safe here

6 years ago

Footballers are very talented with their feet, less so in front of a camera, as shown by these hilariously bad adverts featuring professional players

6 years ago

Football Manager’s player generator comes out with some weird and wonderful names sometimes, but can you distinguish them from these real player names?

6 years ago

Politicians in their youth, geography, TV locations and the usual general knowledge and sport are in this week’s JOE pub quiz

6 years ago

We got a Sunderland fan and a Newcastle fan to watch Netflix docuseries Sunderland ‘Til I Die – can they put their rivalry aside and find common ground?

6 years ago

JOE’s weekly pub quiz comprising five rounds about General Knowledge, sport, music, vegetables and history – good luck and enjoy

6 years ago

Ha’way! One of the most astounding things about the United Kingdom as a nation is the variation in accents and dialects, given the relatively small size of the country. You drive an hour north of London and suddenly everyone writes “mum” as “mom.” You drive a few more hours north and it becomes “mam.” One […]

6 years ago

Happy birthday to David Beckham Tomorrow marks the 45 years since one of the most iconic footballers to don an England shirt was born in the appropriately named Whipps Cross hospital. Beckham was the first footballer I idolised, with his outrageous haircuts and jaw-dropping free kicks. It was his performances for England that made me […]

6 years ago

You can pre-order the jersey now Boredom is rife at the moment. Among school children and furloughed workers alike, many of us are stuck indoors with very little on the to do list. Some of us are trying to improve our culinary skills. Others might be getting into yoga. Maybe you’ve picked up your sketchpad […]

6 years ago

The centre will open once lockdown measures are relaxed Romford FC owner Glenn Tamplin is to open a ‘dayhab’ centre for recovering addicts on his own land once lockdown measures are relaxed. A recovering drug addict himself, Tamplin wants to provide opportunities to people struggling with addiction who cannot afford to spend consecutive days at […]

6 years ago

I have bleached my hair Like the countless other men to have done something stupid to their hair during this lockdown out of pure boredom and curiosity, I decided to bleach my hair. If not now, when I can easily get away with hiding it from the public, then when? Well, never, is the answer. […]

6 years ago

Wales midfielder Jonny Williams relives Wales’ incredible journey to the semi-finals of Euro 2016, watching the Don’t Take Me Home documentary

6 years ago

How well do you remember these different episodes of heartbreak? My earliest footballing memory is not a live match, but re-watching a video tape of England’s qualification campaign for the 2002 World Cup. I don’t know how many times I watched it, but each game is etched into my memory. Scholes’ bullet in a friendly […]

6 years ago

Football Manager can be a little overwhelming It’s a game capable of engulfing you so deep that one more game becomes half a season and the next thing you know it’s 4 in the morning. It’s a game that sees you form emotional bonds with not only virtual players, but regens. Players who don’t exist. […]

6 years ago

5 rounds, 25 questions, for the 187th time. Sport, general knowledge, television, capital cities and fashion make up the rounds on this week’s pub quiz

6 years ago

Ugo Ehiogu tragically passed away from a heart attack in 2017 When Ugo Ehiogu passed away in 2017 from a heart attack, it shook the footballing world. The former Aston Villa and Middlesbrough defender and then Tottenham youth coach was taken at the tender age of 44. Tributes poured in from fans, players and managers. […]

6 years ago

Weird is the new normal As we trudge along through the increasingly real and simultaneously increasingly surreal experience of living through a global pandemic, weird is becoming the new normal and normal is becoming the new weird. I find myself reading novels – and finishing them – in less than a week. I find myself […]

6 years ago

“Carole-fucking-Baskin” If you have watched Netflix’s bizarre and brilliant documentary Tiger King, you will now be aware of a man called Joe Exotic. Real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, Exotic was an American zoo owner who was known for his flamboyant style and love of the spotlight. Over the course of the series, we see inside his zoo […]

6 years ago

Have you shaved your head yet? You have, haven’t you? You picked up your trimmer and thought, “fuck it, what’s the worst that could happen?” You then found out the answer to that question and have been wearing a wooly hat indoors ever since. It’s alright, mate, loads of other men have made the same […]

6 years ago

FC Barcelona players have taken a 70% pay cut – also choosing to donate 2% of their usual wage to ensure all non playing staff receive their full salary

6 years ago