Hannah Shaddock·Apr 11, 2021Harder than you thinkAs I write this, Norwich City have won eight games on the spin, are sitting comfortably at the top of the Championship table and have 79…
Hannah Shaddock·Mar 3, 2021A ghost season doesn’t have to be hauntingWhen it became clear — some time between March last year, when football stopped, and when it resumed in June — that the season would be…
Hannah Shaddock·Jan 21, 2021Thank our lucky starsDespite ten years of Catholic education and an Irish mother who lights a candle at the cathedral any time she needs a favour from the Big…
Hannah Shaddock·Dec 30, 2020Guests in a world of gatekeepersIn the summer of 2019 I stood in a packed London pub to cheer on England in the semi-final of the women’s World Cup and thought about the…
Hannah Shaddock·Dec 12, 2020I’m starting to feel sorry for Ipswich TownWhen you become a fan of a football club, it involves another, twin pact, one written in the small print, implicit but not articulated…
Hannah Shaddock·Nov 28, 2020Long live King TimCometh the hour, cometh the Krul. No, I’m not referring to the moment when Louis van Gaal chose to sub on Tim Krul for the Netherlands…
