I did my best to immerse myself as much as I could in local culture and history. Not because I’m some hoity-toity intellectual (though I am, obv), but because immersing yourself in local culture and history mainly involved looking at boss murals of Castro, Guevara and Cienfeugos whilst necking a ridiculously strong Cuba libre and smoking a cigar fatter than Anderson after a month of Bem Brasil half-price lunch offers.

I really should say “No, it’s great” but I’d be fibbing as I don‘t know if it‘s good or not. If you read it in the next few weeks then you will be the same as me as I have not read it. When I closed each chapter I usually accompanied it with a “Woo-hoo” to signify that I’d thought I’d got it. If it didn‘t get a “Woo-hoo” then it didn‘t feel right to close it.

The Premier League is a bastion of ballbaggery. Players who believe they are brands, owners who openly pillage supporters and supporters who openly degrade themselves and the game with their acts of public knobendedness. Yeah, …

Many speak of Ron Atkinson’s last trophy being the FA Cup he won against Everton in 1985 thanks to Norman Whiteside’s famous curler. But I seem to remember, as an eight-year-old, seeing the reds lift a trophy at Old Trafford, presented by a member of the royal family in the summer of 1986.

I belong to a generation of Manchester United fans who just about remember United being shit. For the most part, granted, we have enjoyed nothing but the attacking, trophy winning teams of Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson has not only relentlessly built success and planned for a brilliant future after he is gone, but steered United too through the financial horror the Glazers wreaked on the club.

On Saturday, FC United of Manchester travel to Hednesford Town in the final of the Northern Premier League play-offs.

Figures obtained by the MEN show that only 30,000 blues were in town for their much-hyped FA Cup victory parade in May 2011.
Despite winning their first silverware for eternity, their lack of numbers was very …

In celebration of Youth United Day, Course You Can Malcolm will host traditional children’s party games, with some ace prizes up for grabs, while we welcome musical turn the Class Actions.

By Jonathan Allsop
Monday night games at Norwich don’t usually provide “favourite away match” material but the trip there on 5th April 1993 was something hair-raisingly, life-affirmingly, cockle-warmingly special.
It’s one of my most vivid memories from …

I wasn’t expecting was a day of politics.
..it’s not often that you get the chance to shout abuse at a real live Tory twat.

Sunderland’s appointment of self-proclaimed fascist Paulo Di Canio isn’t being wholly accepted with the ‘roll over and get on with it’ spirit that the club’s board were hoping for. ‘As long as he wins games …

An unassuming room tucked away in the top right corner of the MRE is the place to be once again before Bank Holiday Monday’s crucial game against Stocksbridge Park Steels. If you pass the unflinching …

Two turns are scheduled to appear at Course You Can Malcolm tomorrow (Saturday, March 23) – a harmonica/ukele player and a poet.
We have been ably assisted by the collective geniuses behind Strummercamp, who pointed us …

FC United’s plans for a community football ground in Moston, north Manchester, received a further huge boost when the Court of Appeal backed an earlier decision by the High Court in December to refuse permission …

It’s hard to imagine how Course You Can Malcolm can be any more Course You Can Malcolm without becoming a parody of itself.
We will also be showing the much acclaimed and truly astonishing film, ‘A Woman’s Place is on the Pitch’.

Up to 3,000 made the trip from Manchester hoping to see United become the first English club to make it through to the European Cup final and 75-year-old Alan Robertson was one of them.

The man who was partly responsible for selling Manchester United down the river, is to stand down as chief executive of the club in the summer.
David Gill, who famously ‘changed sides’ following the Glazer takeover, …

John the Poet returns to his ancestral home after a long break recuperating from teetotalism and fruit.
Plus, Margy is feeling confident following a recent run of good form and has therefore agreed to do a Question and Answer session…

“Lots of clubs do some great community work. The difference for us is that it is central to our constitution.”