Guardian Gallery 2008

"A look back at the year in football through the unmistakable prism of the Gallery"


My winning entry to celebrate the unveiling of Giovanni Trapattoni as Irish boss back in the spring made it in – topical as ever nine months later with the current squad situation (re Andy Reid and Stephen Ireland) I might add.

Officeless forecast = good

It's been a bit quiet on the Officeless airwave over the last week or two, due to a house move amongst other things. Fears that this blog had succumb to cack-handed government cuts are unfounded. Occasional, random Officeless posts will go from strength to strength, shining a dim pocket torchlight into the murky gloom and depression of 2009, and that's a promise.

Incidentally, can any Officeless reader out there ever remember the expression "Gone to the wall" slipping inadvertantly into conversation pre-summer-2008?