Manchester United are one of the top clubs in the world. They've won 19 league titles, 11 FA Cups, lifted the European Cup three times and are currently running away with this season's Premier League title. Last season's turnover was an eye-watering £320million and they consistently...

Just over a year ago partner Jane and I enjoyed a relaxing holiday in a Croatian resort near the town of Poreč. The weather was hot, hotel excellent and scenery stunning. After a summer of shift work for me and an arduous if exciting holiday earlier in the...

A year to the day before World Trade Centre bombings on 11 September 2001 and most of Britain was queuing at petrol stations as fuel duty protests from a few north Wales farmers spread across the nation. Yet I was engaging my own vigil along with 4,000 other...

A couple of seasons ago an altercation broke out a few rows in front of my seat in the Bobby Moore Lower Stand at West Ham. The cheapest section of the ground, it is largely populated by shaven-headed, overweight, middle-aged men not dissimilar to myself, but on this occasion a...

Watford fans are celebrating the appointment of Gianfranco Zola as their new manager following the sacking of Sean Dyche by new club owners the Pozzo family. It is the well-liked Italian's first appointment since himself being ruthlessly dismissed after 20 months in charge of the Hammers. When I...

Along with the rest of the staff on the Sun's editorial floor I was bent over a TV screen waiting for IOC President Jacques Rogge to announce who would be holding the 2012 Olympics. It was Wednesday the sixth of July, 2005 - and as I recall, overcast but warm....

To much excitement my ticket came through the post this morning and for the first time in 31 years I'm off to Wembley with West Ham. Although we journeyed together to Cardiff's excellent Millennium Stadium for three consecutive years between 2004 and 2006, the League Cup final in 1981 was...

I was standing in the away end at the Valley, Charlton, and it was simply hosing it down as West Ham attempted to hold onto a 2-1 lead with a bit over a quarter of an hour on the clock.

Despite an arthritic knee and what pace he ever...