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Brentford blogger is from another league
1. DAVID HUNT – Brentford FC
David Hunt isn’t the type of football player who enjoys watching from the sidelines, especially when his team is struggling.
League One side Brentford FC have got just a point from their first four games of the campaign whilst former Leyton Orient and Northampton Town man can only sit and [...]
Introducing… Sidelines
Over the coming weeks, Pope and Swift will bring you Sidelines, a series of blogs with the aim of proving that footballers are actually interesting people who don’t just play golf in their spare time.
‘Why?’, we hear you ask? Because we think footballers, as a collective, have an unfair reputation for being extravagant, unintelligent and predictable. [...]
Separated at Birth: West Midlands whippets
You can almost imagine the scene. West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo is sitting in the office of Jeremy Pearce, the Baggies chairman, identifying his transfer targets.
‘I wanta new strika Mr Peace’ the softly spoken Italian manages to get across. ‘I wanta sumaone who cana score Westa Brom many goals. Sumaone with pace who cana [...]
Warrington want it just as much
Today’s Challenge Cup Final has all the markings of being Leeds Rhinos’ day.  Their first Challenge Cup final for five years (since losing to Hull in 2005) and their first visit to the new Wembley Stadium (their last two finals were played at Cardiff’s Millenium Stadium) , it’s all set up for Brian McLennan’s side to win their first Challenge Cup [...]
Separated at Birth: Danns and Davids
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Pope and Swift don’t often do two Separated at Birth blogs in quick success but there’s a good reason for it. We think something fishy is going on at Selhurst Park.
Neil Danns, the Crystal Palace midfielder, played and scored in his side’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Ipswich on Saturday. Edgar Davids, [...]
Separated at Birth: Percy and Prince Charming
Percy Montgomery, in Pope and Swift’s eyes, is an amalgamation of  cartoon characters you’d just love to punch. The retired South African rugby union player bears a passing resemblance to Gaston of Pope and Swift Disney favourite, Beauty and the Beast, a man famous for saying  ‘As a specimen, yes, I’m intimidating’, something which we can imagine the [...]
The death of the 3pm kick off
Every year the Premier League sticks another nail in the coffin of the 3pm Saturday kick off . The 2010/2011 season won’t do anything to address the terminal decline.
A quick glance down the fixtures for August to December sees the Big Four playing an unprecedented number of games at times other than the traditional Saturday [...]
Separated at Birth: Dailly and the geeks
The IT Crowd, for those who haven’t seen it, is a Channel 4 comedy about a three person IT support team working in a dingy basement in London. As a comedy, it isn’t great but it’s pretty solid. Every time you come to watch it, there is a feeling that it might be better than [...]
The world according to…Stephen Ireland
It’s been neglected for a while but Pope and Swift are proud to re-present ‘The world according to…’, a series of blogs which delves into the murky depths of  the sportsman’s mind.  We return with the always entertaining Stephen Ireland..
I’ll be straight with ya, I’m not happy with all this Milner lark. I found out about [...]
British swimming’s latest conveyor belt blonde
British Swimming, as the national governing body for swimming, is responsible internationally for the the high performance representation of the sport in major competitions.  To ensure that they maintain a high level of success, they have a factory somewhere in Britain, reportedly in the Midlands area, which produces swimmers. Over the past five years, the British Swimming [...]