Welcome to Kickabout with the Gents. This is a football blog inspired by:

  • Lifelong passion for the game
  • Interest in tactics and strategy
  • The airing of opinions, both passionate and coherent.
You will discover here:
  • Opinion pieces (both my older, more comic approach and newer, analytical, ‘academic’ and professional approaches)
  • Match Reports
  • Gaming blogs, based on Football Manager. I have written in the past the pretty-popular, comedy Charles Dickens, Football Manager at The Blue Casket. I am now writing Arsene Whinging, which has a more tactical bent. I will transfer all posts for that here.
  • Maybe some contributions from acquaintances.
I have been accepted to write for caughtoffside.com, where I will write under rjcroton. I haven’t had the time to send anything in yet.
Follow me on Twitter too, @rjcroton
The game has come a long way since this picture, but perhaps the Essence is still in the game, of hard work and leisure being the foundation of the sport. We may rant about owners, sectarian fans, idiotic players, but it is these things (as well as tactical beauty) which make football such a compelling subject.
- R.J. Croton