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This week’s prick has only just begun. It’s going to rumble on and relentlessly on and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it or escape it. So who’s this week’s prick then? A change of direction this week as we go for a more conceptual prick, a prick whose prickishness is […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 34: The Upcoming Harry Kane Transfer Saga
We were, like so many of you, gravely shocked that a former Liverpool and Rangers ankle-botherer has at best a shaky grasp of the finances and behind-the-scenes goings on at Manchester United. So who’s this week’s prick then? Renowned former hardman turned big soft pearl-clutching, haircut-disliking Sky pundit, Graeme Souness. What’s he done? […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 32: Graeme Souness and his alternative facts
Tricky one this week. In as much as identifying a single prick among the vast array of pricks in a record-breaking week for prickery (the pandemic has had a bizarre timey-wimey effect on everything but it freaks our nut out that it is only five days since Spurs’ biggest online problem was getting bantered off […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 31: Perez, official spokesb*stard for the Dirty Dozen
It has gone, the game. Football. The game. Our game. The one we loved. The one we grew up watching. It has gone. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @. So who’s this week’s prick then? Anyone who used the phrase “the game’s gone” unironically in response to a thing that happened on a […]
Miserable one this week. And it’s not going away. Valencia’s players walked off the field after Mouctar Diakhaby alleged Cadiz’s Juan Cala aimed a racist insult his way. And that was just the start of it… So who’s this week’s prick then? It’s a multi-layered thatch of deeply unpleasant prickery this week, like a […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 29: Juan Cala and how not to handle a race row
Is it an “utterly impossible job” or is it just an utterly impossible job for Aidy Boothroyd? Because from the outside looking in, it seems like a pretty sweet gig. So who’s this week’s prick then? It is Aidy Boothroyd, once again overseeing an England Under-21 side having their pants pulled mercilessly down by […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 28: Aidy Boothroyd and his ‘impossible job’
There’s real and distressing prickery afoot this week, but – thanks to a Harry Kane penalty – we’re going to talk mainly about conspiracy theories again because every single week the real pricks are definitely us. So who’s this week’s prick then? Football fans, basically. Or at least a loud belligerent and significant minority […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 27: Conspiracies and penalties
Being late (again) when you’ve been specifically told not to be late (again) is the work of a prick. Mainly, though, this week’s prick is a prick for kicking off a flurry of bad takes about his prickishness and forcing this column into a frankly unsustainable cake-and-eat-it hypocro-spiral. So who’s this week’s prick then? […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 26: Tardy Aubameyang and a flurry of takes
Managers need to stop blaming entire results on marginal refereeing decisions, really. So who’s this week’s prick then? In shameless pursuit of numbers, this week’s prick is the manager of Manchester United Football Club, Mr Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. What’s he done? One thing we’ve learned from these features in recent weeks – and […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 24: Conspiracy theorist Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
In which we mercilessly kick a lovely but really old puppy. Which is just a dog, isn’t it? We’re just kicking an elderly dog. That’s probably fine. So who’s this week’s prick then? We’re not proud of ourselves for this, but it’s Roy Hodgson. I know, lovely Uncle Roy. He’s a kind and good […]
Read More… from Prick of the Week No. 23: Roy Hodgson and self-serving warnings