Looser Balls was born in 1996 as a successor to Loose Balls, a magazine produced by players in the 1980s. Since then, the publication has been taken to the libel courts on more than a dozen occasions. Back in 2000, a public school youngster unsuccessfully claimed that Looser Balls had stained his character with an allegation of an after-match showers incident involving Ley Hill paceman Liam O'Neill. On another occasion, O'Neill was unable to prove to the courts that he was not the son of a local fish monger. Most recently, it was judged that Paul Green did share characteristics with IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, TV man Jim Rosenthal, and irritating mime-ist Marcel Marceau.
Looser Balls has fought off these challenges and gone on to win
critical acclaim. Here is a selection of articles that have previously appeared
in Looser Balls - and some recent material appearing exclusively on this site.
Summer 2003
Match Preparation Survey - results
Feeble Excuses Contest - results
Russian tycoon Packetovic set to takeover the Hill - megabucks and buxom ladies await
Andrew Rennard and the mystery of the Guernsey Grip
Dope, fake tan and the Ley Hill urinals - doping scandal hits the Hill
Packet In - the nicknames of Ley Hill players
A Potted History of the Potting Shed
October 2002
Colts' Parents and their Beer
Revealed: Massive bust-up that ruined Ley
Hill's Mid Bucks chances
November 2000
The Looser Balls Awards - 2000