Given I only get to the ground about ten minutes before kick-off, I missed the opportunity to buy the latest edition of Red Issue which went on sale today. Why? Because the GMP, without receiving a single complaint, deemed the picture on the back page "potentially offensive" so went about confiscating it and threatening the sellers with arrest.

By Chris Wright

Police have confirmed that the confiscated all of the copies of the United fanzine, Red Issue, that were floating around outside Old Trafford today which featured cut-out 'Suarez Is Innocent' Ku Klux Klan masks for United fans to hold in front of their faces to bait Liverpool as the teams emerged from the tunnel.

Nottingham Forest fans read on, for we are very pleased to welcome back Glen Wilson, steward of Doncaster Rovers' Popular STAND Fanzine and late of award winning blog, Viva Rovers. Here Glen provides us with an insight into Sean O'Driscoll, recently installed in a supporting role to Steve Cotterill at the City Ground.

For the fifth in our Hopeless Teams series, we delve back relatively recently into the past by welcoming Richard Bellis. Richard co-runs Richard and Neil's Football Blog with his brother Neil and was the proud recipient of a nomination in the recent NOPA football blogging awards run by Picklive. 201i, however, largely saw Richard and Neil occupy themselves with the production and dissemination of The Blue & White Fanzine, a new print publication mainly devoted to the reformed Chester FC: a luscious object designed by our own Michael Kinlan and featuring contributions from TTUers William Abbs and myself.

After reducing our allocation for this weekend's FA Cup game at The United Stadium, Manchester City still haven't managed to sell out their home section. The tickets are on general sale (the only criteria being you have bought one match day ticket from City already this season) yet just days before kick-off, they still have tickets available.

It's taken us two and a half years but we have finally achieved our exit strategy from Blogger and arrived on board with Wordpress - a natural evolutionary path that many said we would take on starting The Two Unfortunates in the wake of the 2008-9 season. The pages you see in front of you have been developed by Michael Kinlan and we hope you agree that he's done a super job, following on from his sterling work with Richard and Neil Bellis's Blue and White Fanzine.

We're now tantalisingly close to the SPL's opening weekend. July isn't yet out but already the sense of anticipation is growing.
The churlish prediction for the season ahead would be that "it can't be as bad as last time." But this being Scottish football we know that's not true. It can be every bit as bad.

Today's instalment in the Those We Have Lost series is on the subject of a ground that seems like it existed a million years ago. We are indebted to Martin Tarbuck for this Martin is the author of two books about Wigan Athletic and editor of the Mudhutter, a Wigan Athletic fanzine. He is also a contributor to This Northern Soul website, which is a collaboration of several existing Wigan Athletic websites including The Mudhutter's online presence.

If we ran a daily ridiculous rumor across the headlines, this would easily be it.

Can we all agree that if he were to retire right now, Pep would be considered among the all-time greats? Not because he's there yet, but rather his body of work, even with the players at his disposal, is so staggeringly glittering, we'd have no choice but to assume he'd be somewhere up there at the end.

Fly Me To The Moon European Football Weekends headed north to Middlesbrough this week to interview two lads who have been providing an official unofficial view of The Boro for the best part of 21 years. Rob Nichols is the Editor in Chief of the quite brilliant Fly Me To The Moon fanzine for those fans who still like a bit of print on their fingers, and Steve Welsh has come to fore recently with