Offside Ref

I’ve been MIA from the blog of late. In truth I’ve been playing with the back end of it and other parts of the site, so I haven’t abandoned the blog in case anyone was getting worried.

Anyway on to the post.

One of my other interests include reading political blogs like Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale’s Diary, Dizzy Thinks. So I had a little smile on my face when I heard that Iain Dale had started a West Ham blog called West Ham Till I Die.

Iain is a West Ham season ticket holder and aims for the new blog to be a mixture of gossip, humour, reporting and analysis - with the odd rant thrown in too. If it’s anything like his political blog or his performances on 18 Doughty Street it will be well worth the read even if you’re not a West Ham fan.

Added to blogroll is West Ham Till I Die.

The Offside Ref site has been around in one form or another since 2001 (previously in the guise of Burtrand World), for those who are interested I’ll be putting up the site’s history in the About page in the main part of the site at some future point but the short story is that the site lost direction and decided to re-brand and re-launch it.

Inspired by the first page (offside rule) made for the site way back in 2001 I decided to use the most over used phrase in football to brand the site – Offside Ref.  Along with the name change the site moved fully on to a football theme, previously in theory it was history site despite taking 90+% of the traffic to the football section with most of that going to the offside rule page.

With a new look and themed site there still wasn’t anywhere that users could voice their opinion, which is why I started this blog.  My aim is to talk about the latest news from the football world and my views on it.  Comments are very much welcome even if your view is different to mine.

Now all we need is some football news.