Matthew Gregory
@matthewgregory.bsky.social
Staff football writer for 3 Added Minutes.
Sports, hiking, music and the pent-up frustration of a man who chose all the wrong teams to support.
Sports, hiking, music and the pent-up frustration of a man who chose all the wrong teams to support.
Every year, I 'take to social media' - as us journos say - to bore people with my five favourite albums of the year. Followed by my all-killer Best of 2025 playlist.
You may well not care. That's valid. But if you want some new tunes in, take them from a man with a Spotify listening age of 17.
You may well not care. That's valid. But if you want some new tunes in, take them from a man with a Spotify listening age of 17.
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Every year, I 'take to social media' - as us journos say - to bore people with my five favourite albums of the year. Followed by my all-killer Best of 2025 playlist.
You may well not care. That's valid. But if you want some new tunes in, take them from a man with a Spotify listening age of 17.
You may well not care. That's valid. But if you want some new tunes in, take them from a man with a Spotify listening age of 17.
All I want for Christmas is for Blackburn to hang on to a 1-0 lead.
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
All I want for Christmas is for Blackburn to hang on to a 1-0 lead.
I'm not sure Blackburn have necessarily been all that much better - but they're certainly getting much luckier now, and that's probably more important. That and finding out we do in fact have a striker who doesn't have a seizure every time he gets the ball in the six-yard box.
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm not sure Blackburn have necessarily been all that much better - but they're certainly getting much luckier now, and that's probably more important. That and finding out we do in fact have a striker who doesn't have a seizure every time he gets the ball in the six-yard box.
There were some very good tactical reasons to think that Postecoglou was the wrong appointment for Forest, but if he actually breaks Les Reed's record for shortest Premier League managerial tenure that will be truly wild. He's definitely not THAT bad of a manager.
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There were some very good tactical reasons to think that Postecoglou was the wrong appointment for Forest, but if he actually breaks Les Reed's record for shortest Premier League managerial tenure that will be truly wild. He's definitely not THAT bad of a manager.
How did Nick Woltemade even find a shirt that's three sizes too big for him?
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How did Nick Woltemade even find a shirt that's three sizes too big for him?
"England have been under the glare of scrutiny and the eye of the storm"
Sam Matterface mixing metaphors like an expert cocktail waiter mixes cement.
Sam Matterface mixing metaphors like an expert cocktail waiter mixes cement.
September 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"England have been under the glare of scrutiny and the eye of the storm"
Sam Matterface mixing metaphors like an expert cocktail waiter mixes cement.
Sam Matterface mixing metaphors like an expert cocktail waiter mixes cement.
It's just like I was saying last week, Blackburn look brilliant and I can't imagine ever feeling sad again.
August 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's just like I was saying last week, Blackburn look brilliant and I can't imagine ever feeling sad again.
This is going to be a very, very long season, isn't it?
August 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is going to be a very, very long season, isn't it?
Sussex's complete collapse over the past month means I've never been more ready to transition from cricket to two separate sports called football. Given the teams I support in those, I expect to be ready to go back to cricket by October, admittedly.
July 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sussex's complete collapse over the past month means I've never been more ready to transition from cricket to two separate sports called football. Given the teams I support in those, I expect to be ready to go back to cricket by October, admittedly.
Nothing but love and appreciation from me towards Tyrhys Dolan. To get that much production and effort and that many backflips from a free transfer is quite something - and he's a truly good human being. That counts for a lot by me.
July 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nothing but love and appreciation from me towards Tyrhys Dolan. To get that much production and effort and that many backflips from a free transfer is quite something - and he's a truly good human being. That counts for a lot by me.
You can never say who's winning this early in a Test match, but it's either India or Jimmy Anderson Truthers who knows in their heart that he should never have been dropped.
June 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
You can never say who's winning this early in a Test match, but it's either India or Jimmy Anderson Truthers who knows in their heart that he should never have been dropped.
I'd be lying if I said I even knew who Camden Schaper was an hour ago, but a) although never ideal to see youngsters poached, it's further testament to Rovers' academy and b) what a name.
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'd be lying if I said I even knew who Camden Schaper was an hour ago, but a) although never ideal to see youngsters poached, it's further testament to Rovers' academy and b) what a name.
To any Palace fans who are happy that a guy called Woody Johnson might buy a stake in your club - this is a rather larger slice of transatlantic sporting ignorance than that one journalist who thought you were called Crystal Palace Eagles.
June 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
To any Palace fans who are happy that a guy called Woody Johnson might buy a stake in your club - this is a rather larger slice of transatlantic sporting ignorance than that one journalist who thought you were called Crystal Palace Eagles.
Xavier Legette is out there having one of the greatest off seasons in history, but the second he drops a pass in a game your dad is going to tut into his flannel shirt and complain that he should be more focussed on football.
June 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Xavier Legette is out there having one of the greatest off seasons in history, but the second he drops a pass in a game your dad is going to tut into his flannel shirt and complain that he should be more focussed on football.
The DJ at my wife's lunchtime college reunion event is clearly struggling to reconcile the songs he wants to play with the fact that only small kids are dancing at 1pm.
So he's gone from The Wheels On The Bus straight into Imagine Dragons.
So he's gone from The Wheels On The Bus straight into Imagine Dragons.
May 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The DJ at my wife's lunchtime college reunion event is clearly struggling to reconcile the songs he wants to play with the fact that only small kids are dancing at 1pm.
So he's gone from The Wheels On The Bus straight into Imagine Dragons.
So he's gone from The Wheels On The Bus straight into Imagine Dragons.
At 5,063m, this is probably the highest I'll ever be. Apart from that one time in etc etc.
Vinincunca and Red Valley in Peru. Beyond spectacular and out the other side.
Vinincunca and Red Valley in Peru. Beyond spectacular and out the other side.
May 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
At 5,063m, this is probably the highest I'll ever be. Apart from that one time in etc etc.
Vinincunca and Red Valley in Peru. Beyond spectacular and out the other side.
Vinincunca and Red Valley in Peru. Beyond spectacular and out the other side.
It's now confirmed that Blackburn will drop out of the WSL2, likely falling multiple divisions as they apply to re-enter lower down the ladder. All so some billionaires can save what's pocket change to them.
The team deserve so much better, and I feel gutted for them.
The team deserve so much better, and I feel gutted for them.
A piece on the dire situation of Blackburn Women (which I am bloody angry about) and the two tiers developing in the modern women's game - those with owners who give a damn and those who make it very clear that they don't...
From Blackburn to Wolves - owners' disinterest is killing dreams in women's football
Blackburn Women may be relegated and Wolves Women denied promotion - all because of the disinterest and greed of their owners.
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May 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's now confirmed that Blackburn will drop out of the WSL2, likely falling multiple divisions as they apply to re-enter lower down the ladder. All so some billionaires can save what's pocket change to them.
The team deserve so much better, and I feel gutted for them.
The team deserve so much better, and I feel gutted for them.
Spent 48 hours in Lima. The first few hours, I was amazed by how active everyone was. Joggers, surfers, people practicing every sport imaginable.
Then I started eating, and understood. You're either exercising incessantly or you get so big you have discernable gravity. The food is unbelievable.
Then I started eating, and understood. You're either exercising incessantly or you get so big you have discernable gravity. The food is unbelievable.
May 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Spent 48 hours in Lima. The first few hours, I was amazed by how active everyone was. Joggers, surfers, people practicing every sport imaginable.
Then I started eating, and understood. You're either exercising incessantly or you get so big you have discernable gravity. The food is unbelievable.
Then I started eating, and understood. You're either exercising incessantly or you get so big you have discernable gravity. The food is unbelievable.
A piece on the dire situation of Blackburn Women (which I am bloody angry about) and the two tiers developing in the modern women's game - those with owners who give a damn and those who make it very clear that they don't...
From Blackburn to Wolves - owners' disinterest is killing dreams in women's football
Blackburn Women may be relegated and Wolves Women denied promotion - all because of the disinterest and greed of their owners.
www.3addedminutes.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A piece on the dire situation of Blackburn Women (which I am bloody angry about) and the two tiers developing in the modern women's game - those with owners who give a damn and those who make it very clear that they don't...
Normally I complain about countries who send dull, earnest entries to #Eurovision but give Slovenia, Portugal etc their due: At least their song wasn't a bloke performing a song seemingly written by a drunk Richard Hammond after he was asked what he thinks about Italians in an unguarded moment.
May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Normally I complain about countries who send dull, earnest entries to #Eurovision but give Slovenia, Portugal etc their due: At least their song wasn't a bloke performing a song seemingly written by a drunk Richard Hammond after he was asked what he thinks about Italians in an unguarded moment.
I can't imagine booing a player who has done as much for my club as Alexander-Arnold has for Liverpool. They don't win the CL in 2019 without him, for starters. He's given them 20 years.
But he wants something new and doesn't net your billionaire owners a transfer fee... So you boo him? Jesus.
But he wants something new and doesn't net your billionaire owners a transfer fee... So you boo him? Jesus.
May 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I can't imagine booing a player who has done as much for my club as Alexander-Arnold has for Liverpool. They don't win the CL in 2019 without him, for starters. He's given them 20 years.
But he wants something new and doesn't net your billionaire owners a transfer fee... So you boo him? Jesus.
But he wants something new and doesn't net your billionaire owners a transfer fee... So you boo him? Jesus.
Idle thought: Why is it that Lazio kits are almost always gorgeous, Manchester City kits are generally just fine, and Coventry City kits are usually rubbish?
May 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Idle thought: Why is it that Lazio kits are almost always gorgeous, Manchester City kits are generally just fine, and Coventry City kits are usually rubbish?
Agony, being a sports fan, isn't it? Hope and despair thrown together into a blender and blitzed thoroughly until frustration comes out. Still keep drinking it down, though. Next season, eh?
May 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Agony, being a sports fan, isn't it? Hope and despair thrown together into a blender and blitzed thoroughly until frustration comes out. Still keep drinking it down, though. Next season, eh?
Fundamental concepts of probability to Blackburn's promotion chances:
April 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Fundamental concepts of probability to Blackburn's promotion chances: