This nostalgia-tinged dispatch just in, from our sister site, Anorak... "As a young lad, Old Mr Anorak liked to settle down with his junior pipe and slippers, reach for his monogrammed Gurkha knife, and cut open a paper packet...

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In the handover from Shiny Media to Pies' new owners, the people behind the excellent Anorak, Pies is experiencing a few technical hitches. It's nothing serious - mostly related to comments and other stuff I won't bore you with -...

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Well, where were we then? The Eleven Devils School for Luckless, Brutal and Unskilled Defenders has been quiet indeed during the dog-days lull. Basically, I haven't been watching any football and thus found very little to say as August smoldered away, authoritarian Olympic glories and all. I don't know why the European leagues insist on starting up in August, when it would clearly behoove them to wait until September when I am ready to focus, see. Click to continue reading...

Football is falling out of our every orifice as the new season arrives, but Chris Taylor suggests you delve in to the murky, anorak wearing world of the non-leagues. Click to continue reading...

In todays Meat Pie, our regular look at interesting but generally meaningless statistics, Inside Left takes the anorak out of it's protective carrier bag and gets his teeth stuck in to archives as he picks out five of the best first-day-of-the-season fixtures in Scotland's rich footballing history. Scottish Division One, Season 1938/39 Division One started out, [. Click to continue reading...

This is just disgusting on so many levels. Allegedly, Mark Anderson, who is apparently a Chelsea supporter, murdered William McClatchey, a supposed Liverpool fan, after they got into a heated debate regarding Rob Styles' questionable penalty call last Sunday. Anderson then went on to dismember the body and leave it in a wheelie bin behind their apartment complex in Belfast, Ireland. Click to continue reading...