The Football Blog

Put your sunglasses on, it's getting Bright...

His middle name is Abraham, he once played for Leek Town, and he was the first person to be voted off the award-winning celebrity show Cirque de Celebrite. It's none other than former Palace, Wednesday and Charlton striker MARK BRIGHT...

Made In Sheffield. And proud...

Random Wiki-fact about Sheffield band The Hours, "Their single Ali in the Jungle is featured in the EA Sports FIFA 08 football game. People Say has twice been used in the opening scenes of British soap opera Hollyoaks." And they've got a new album out soon, so singer Antony Genn gave us a bell to talk touring, DVD documentaries and Bryan Robson....

GLC are back. You knows it...

They're probably the 17th greatest thing to ever come from Wales, and it seems they don't think the world has heard enough novelty rap yet as they're back with a new album and tour. It's Goldie Lookin Chain, and we speak to Rhys from the band aka Dwain Xain Zedong aka P Xain aka Ganja Bizniz aka Zardoz as he takes a tour of Cardiff's coffee shop...

We catch up with our favourite Scots...

Way back in September, we spoke to Glasvegas just before the canny Scots duked it out in the album charts with giants Metallica. They lost that battle, but since then it's fair to say to say they've done alright. They're currently headlining the NME Awards tour, and we caught up with Rangers fan Paul from the band to see how they were getting on...

First lady of Italian football speaks to us from Milan...

Say what you like about Mark Chapman (the Radio 1 bloke, not the guy who killed John Lennon), but there's no arguing the best thing about him on Five's Football Italia coverage last season was co-presenter Laura Esposto. Now presenting AC Milan TV, we got in touch/fell in love with the delightful former model to give us an update on how our Dave is doing in the famous Rossoneri shirt ahead of this weekend’s big Milan derby at the San Siro. Click on the buttons on her picture to find out what she had to say about GoldenBollocks…

"When he came to the San Siro for the first time there were some people who booed him and whistles, not everyone liked him. When Ronaldinho arrived it was different, 40,000 people were in the stadium to see him. But with Beckham at the beginning it wasn't like that."