Boot Sale

For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year – once in August and again in January.

Nige Tassell writes about sport and music, and his work has appeared in the pages of FourFourTwo , the Guardian , The Sunday Times , Esquire , New Statesman , Q and The Word . He is also the author of The Bottom Corner: Hope, Glory and Non-League Football . He lives in the hill country of Somerset with his wife and two prospective future non-league players.