May

6

Blogwatch: Caught Offside hits rock bottom

Filed Under Idiots, blogs | 3 Comments

I know as part of the Sportingo network we shouldn’t expect much from Caught Offside but making paedophile jokes as part of their headlines really is too much.
I’ve now deleted the link from this site to Caught Offside.
Fucking pathetic, guys. Really, truly pathetic.
Related: How to write like Sportingo.

Mar

10

Blog spam

Filed Under blogs | 5 Comments

Received to my email just moments ago:
Hello,
I am representing the Football blog - COS - http://www.caughtoffside.com.
COS is a well established blog that receives 300,000 entries a month.
We visited your site and found it very interesting and professional.
We would like to propose a link exchange between our sites for SEO purposes.
If you are interesting, we would [...]

Feb

20

Come on Pies, open up your comments

Filed Under blogs | 6 Comments

There’s an article on Whoateallthepies that I want to comment on but I do not want to have to go through the rigmarole of registering with the ‘Pies community’.
I’ve checked all the posts for the last few days and out of all that content that the guys are working so hard to produce (the 20 [...]

Feb

19

How to write like Sportingo

Filed Under Football, The site, blogs | 5 Comments

Most of us here on Left Back are mere amateur bloggers.
We write because we enjoy writing about football. We write because we want to get things off our chest. We write because we live in the vain hope that somebody out there might find it mildly entertaining.
We’re under no illusions about our place in the [...]

Feb

8

Shame

Filed Under Football, Internet, blogs | 9 Comments

What a shame some football blogs have now become more interested in hits than catering for their readers. One blog which I used to read all the time was Whoateallthepies.
I used to comment from time to time but now you have to go through a registration process to do so. I don’t particularly want to [...]

Aug

21

An open letter

Filed Under Football, blogs | 7 Comments

Dear other football blogs,
nobody gives a shit about WAGS. Well, that’s a lie. Some people do but they’re the same people who watch Big Brother and buy magazines like OK Weekly!
If I go to a football blog I want to read about football, not some semi-clad bimbo who’s famous only because she’s shagging a Premiership [...]