Prick of the Week No. 22: Harry Maguire dons his tinfoil hat

Harry Maguire had a very odd day on Sunday, forgetting all his football training and then also his media training. He was a bit of a prick, to be honest.   So who’s this week’s prick then? Manchester United captain and disconcertingly cumbersome yet often effective centre-back Harry Maguire.   What’s he done? Manchester United […]

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Prick of the Week No. 21: Referee death threats and how we got here

Sending people death threats makes you a prick. Surely we can all agree on that. But how did we come to this point?   So who’s this week’s prick then? It’s a multi-layered prick this week, with the final prick really just an end point (steady) of a journey that has been going on for […]

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Prick of the Week No. 20: Southampton go full Gareth Keenan

We’ll be honest, it’s been a struggle at times in the last few weeks to identify a solid prick candidate given the inevitably dwindling list of candidates not already hit with the pricking stick. This week there were bloody loads of pricks, though, even allowing for the fact that Jose Mourinho (general joy-sapping death-spiral miserabilism) […]

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