The Pitch Meeting

Want to be in charge here? Now you can be...

Hello everyone, I hope you’ve enjoyed the posts on 87 Minutes so far. A friend recently described them as “finally proving that the only thing weirder than football is the way your brain works”, so feels like we’re on the right track.

Very pleased to announce that we’re getting to the good stuff now, and will be officially launching The Pitch Meeting! (still not sure on the name). This is where I take my hands off the wheel despite the roads being icy and let you lot veer us into the muddy ditch of concepts. What’s something weird you’ve seen that you’d like explained? What’s something that winds you up you’d like to see roundly mocked? What player, team, or tactical trend just makes zero sense and you’d like me to lose a full afternoon on pouring through Opta stats to try and find some reason to? It’s all good stuff.

Now this is a “perk” in the loosest sense of the word so both the discussion - and the following nonsense I write on it - is exclusively for paid subs. This is because of capitalism, obviously, but also because there’s somehow already 1500 of you on here. One month is £6, or a year is £48. So if you sign up for the latter you basically get four entire months free, which is nice!

Plus, as an added sweetener, if your footballing WhatsApp groups are as dry as mine it’ll also just be a place where we can all just laugh roundly at the week’s football and have a generally Nice Time. So if nothing else you can tell people you’re in an “exclusive club” with the guy who does the subbuteo stuff on YouTube. Drop that at the xmas dinner table this year, and enjoy the “who?” you get back from a disinterested blood relative.

There’s absolutely tons of football coming and the festive fixtures are always completely batshit, so think of it as a nice little Christmas present to yourself.