The End of Piffle

Dear Reader,

You’ve probably noticed that the frequency of updates here has dropped off significantly in recent weeks. This, I feel I must explain.

The majority of the piffle was unsubbed versions of columns published by The New Paper in Singapore. In the early days, this was perfectly acceptable as the articles only ever attracted a handful of readers. In January however, a few of them proved so popular that they popped up on news aggregators, denying TNP’s own website traffic and raising the issue of an impact on paper sales. As TNP are my first responsiblity, I must reluctantly pull the plug. The content, after all, belongs to them.

Without a regular stream of content, there’s little point in keeping the blog open, attracting readers with the occasional feature and then losing them with weeks of silence. I’d much rather direct people towards some of the internet’s best football blogs where passionate, intelligent and wonderful people are creating communities for up-and-coming or occasional writers around the world. Therefore, when I write free blogs in the future, I’ll be writing them for people like In Bed With Maradona, The 72 Football and anyone else whose gib I like the cut of.

I want to thank everyone who ever sent a link to this website on to a friend, or left it on a messageboard or tweeted it to their followers. Because of your support, I’ve had the opportunity to write for The Blizzard, Official Playstation Magazine and Sports Illustrated. And that makes me feel all warm and glowy inside.

I’ll still be on Twitter (@iainmacintosh) and I’ll leave everything that’s here already up online until told otherwise.

Regards

Iain

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