Although a TV writer and reviewer by trade, Mike Ward has written on sport for titles including FourFourTwo, the Daily Telegraph and Today. He's the author of Gullhanger, a season in the life of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, appears regularly on talkSPORT – as well as numerous other radio stations – and has co-hosted BBC Sussex's football phone-in.
While I may have initially supported Arsenal, Brighton and Hove Albion is the club that helped me fall back in love with the game. And that’s why I’ll be wanting them to win this weekend.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 1:02 am
What if England had not only fluked their way past Italy but achieved a similar “miracle” in both the semi-final and, gasp, the final? What if England, THIS England, this bunch whose spirit and noble intent cannot mask their woeful technical shortcomings, had somehow actually gone on to win Euro 2012?
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 2:39 pm
It’s pathetic of me, I know, but as someone with deep-rooted authority issues, I’d miss the chance to rant at useless, jumped-up, self-important, jobsworth match officials.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 3:36 pm
Instead of insulting our intelligence, as has been the habit of TV sports presenters for as long as I can remember, by avoiding any reference to a rival channel’s imminent live coverage of another crucial key match, Chiles openly acknowledged that we’d all be switching over to England v Sweden.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Monday, 18 June 2012 at 2:18 pm
Just like top footballers in the past used to feel obliged to have bubble perms and booze problems, almost every 21st Century footballer feels the need, it seems, to turn one of his arms into what he no doubt imagines, bless him, is a work of art.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 3:20 pm
At this level, shouldn’t experienced pundits be coming out with something jolly clever? Something that positively oozes wisdom and insight? Something that the rest of us – who, after all, should be comparative dullards when it comes to football analysis – couldn’t think for ourselves, or wouldn’t have spotted..?
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 12:46 pm
I know when a televised football match is becoming crushingly dull, because I find myself paying more attention to the pitch-side adverts – especially since they’ve introduced those deeply distracting electronic hoardings, forever flicking from one ad to the next.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Sunday, 3 June 2012 at 10:09 am
Early doors, the ITV boys were inevitably harking back to 1981, when Norway beat Ron Greenwood’s England 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier, and digging out that dreary old “Maggie Thatcher, your boys took a hell of a beating” thing.
By Mike Ward | Football, Sport | Monday, 28 May 2012 at 4:11 pm
OK, here’s a quick question I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves at some point or another: how many times would the Ashes urn fit inside the UEFA Champions League trophy?
One of the nice things about supporting a football club outside the Premier League is you feel you have somewhere to go. In an upward sense, I mean. Glories still to aspire to, many rungs of the ladder still to climb, huge strides still to be, erm, stridden.
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