Oh yes it is... it's the MirrorFootball Panto!

Pantomime season is here - which means bad acting, men in drag and cornier jokes than a box of cornflakes. English football is preparing a secret tran... Read more+

Wally meets...Sky TV presenter and Hartlepool United fan Jeff Stelling

Christmas – there’s a good nine-letter word for Jeff ­Stelling to sign off as the host of ­Countdown. His last episode in the chair of daytime TV’s po... Read more+

FA investigation may be easier task than keeping Spurs quiet for Anton Ferdinand

Anton Ferdinand may find it easier to spill the beans in the witness box than keeping Tottenham quiet. The Queens Park Rangers defender is expected to... Read more+

Wally meets...the manager who put Dean Richards on the road top the big time, John Docherty

Shortly before kick-off at Molineux tomorrow, a moment of solemnity will unite football. Four shirts, representing the clubs Dean Richards served, wil... Read more+

Wally meets...England's World Cup winning goalkeeper Gordan Banks

They sphinx it’s all over... it is now, thank goodness.National treasure Gordon Banks was among the tourists evacuated from crisis-torn Egypt this wee... Read more+

Wally meets...Mauricio Taricco

Second comings were this week’s vogue in football. No club too big or small, just dial M for Messiah.From Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool to Darren Fergus... Read more+

Wally meets...Martin Hayes

Any bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover will lose their monopoly of airspace above the Channel port next month.FA Cup giant-killers Dover Athleti... Read more+

Wally meets... Sergei Baltacha

Sergei Baltacha wasn’t just the man who tore down ­football’s Iron Curtain and brought glasnost to East Anglia.He loved being a pioneer so much that h... Read more+

Wally meets...David Ginola

For scraping the barrel, last Sunday’s visit to the grapevine was right up there with Alan Partridge’s desperate offer to replace his chat show with a... Read more+

Once a Red Warrior, Fernando Torres now has the bite of a poodle

On the Mersey beat, the natives are growing anxious.Those Texas rangers are still in charge of Liverpool, with no sign of an imminent takeover, and Fe... Read more+

Ashley Cole makes hard work of Wembley warm-up...then snubs Capello

Poor Ashley Cole - three consecutive words you don’t read often these days - didn’t just lose his wife this summer.In 79 minutes of early-season tortu... Read more+

Wally meets... A pub full of Wayne Rooneys

Down at the ­Shakespeare on England’s day of ­reckoning, I was served by a barmaid called Wayne Rooney.My pre-match meal, chilli con carne, was dished... Read more+

Wally meets... The Pukka Pie England Band

Unlike those vuvuzela horns, which sound like a plague of mosquitoes, they won’t make you feel like droning your sorrows.But when the England Band str... Read more+

Wally meets... Ron 'Chopper' Harris

Around the greens of Fox Hills, Ron Harris administered a gentle touch he rarely afforded passing wingers in his heyday.The Ron Harris Collection: pre... Read more+

Wally meets... 'Diddy' David Hamilton

Above a  corner shop in Knightsbridge, ‘Diddy’ David Hamilton was ushered in to meet the owner and learn his fate.Already devastated to lose his privi... Read more+

Wally meets... Tony Kleanthous

Tony Kleanthous finally cast off his image as the nicest chairman in football – because he sacked his first manager in 16 years this week.Barnet had b... Read more+

Wally meets... John Fenty

To all but the most defiant fishmongers, it will be not so much an away trip as a voyage of the damned.After 121 years, Grimsby Town will slip out of ... Read more+

Wally meets... David Hirst

Back in an age before transfers were conducted by smoke and mirrors, David Hirst kept the fax machine at Old Trafford busy.Six times Sir Alex Ferguson... Read more+

Wally meets... Danny Mills

John Terry would never park in a ­disabled bay again if he tried to complete the marathon in a wheelchair like Danny Mills.In a sport overcrowded by b... Read more+

Wally meets... Luther Blissett

Scorpions lurking around the campfire and his tent every night, Luther Blissett tried not to think of the love bites.By day, temperatures reached a sw... Read more+

Wally meets... Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew's perverse reward for landing only the fourth trophy in Southampton's history tomorrow could be the sack.Saints will take 44,000 pilgrims ... Read more+

Wally meets... Mark Halsey

At last, after all the rapacious tales of vanity, greed and sleaze, this is a story everyone in football can celebrate.Premier League referee Mark Hal... Read more+