Following on from the elegy provided for the website he had run for the past 12 years, the incomparable Boy from Brazil, Michael Wood makes a quick return to TTU today. Here are his thoughts on a recent offer from Gillingham Football Club to their fans, arguing that the quality of generosity should not be strain’d. Gillingham supporters are not happy. Following a poor performance, there has been an offer by Gillingham FC to pay fans back who made a trip to Accrington for a 4-3 defeat. The offer comes in the form of £20 vouchers for club travel but – as…
The Monday Profile: Paul Cook
John Coleman’s departure from the Accrington Stanley job in January after 12 years in the role reverberated throughout Lancashire. The Liverpudlian had transformed the beleaguered Accies from a name used to market dairy products into a serious footballing concern again, and defeat to Stevenage in the play-off semi-final last May wipes none of the gloss from his striking achievements. Having been linked with a succession of details since Stanley returned to the Football League in 2006, there was nonetheless a patina of inevitability about Coleman’s final departure. His destination, however, did provoke more than a little surprise. Although enjoying one of the…
Does Third Place Flatter Reading FC?
On Thursday, I remarked to several friends that I thought Reading FC’s position of seventh in the Championship was a flattering one. Now, after a 1-0 win over Burnley, the club has ascended to third and, having kept a fourth consecutive clean sheet and seen new acquisition Jason Roberts maintain a hundred per cent record of scoring in home games, the Royals are insisting they be taken seriously. Of course they came within a lock’s breadth of climbing to the firmament last May – so, this current loftiness perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise. Although over £10 million was banked…
Great Football League Teams 30: Wimbledon, 1982-3
The nine year rise of Wimbledon Football Club from Division 4 to the English game’s summit is a story of such remarkableness that it’s often forgotten just how much of a yo-yo club the Dons were in the years immediately following their ascension to the Football League in 1977. Indeed, the club’s first two spells in the third tier lasted a single season each – they were relegated under Dario Gradi in 1979-80 and then suffered the same fate in Dave Bassett’s first season in charge in 1981-2. The denouement to that underwhelming campaign had been a tragic one, with…
Why Lee Clark had to go
A snap guest post today – and one that is bound to stoke up controversy. Yesterday, Hudderfield Town dispensed with the services of Lee Clark. On twitter, a discussion ensued on the subject of ‘unfair sackings’ with the firings of Chris Hughton, Carlo Ancelotti and Gianfranco Zola held up in comparison – and it’s fair to say that the TTU editorial line is highly sympathetic towards the departed manager. All is perhaps not as it seems however – and here, John Dobson argues that it was time for the infamous T-shirt wearer to go. The over-riding sentiment on twitter (where…
Richard Pipe: This issue was brought up in a recent edition of 'When Saturday Comes....
Neil: I enjoyed that. Can't quite believe how long it's been since Cook was ...
Lanterne Rouge: Agreed really. I was going to do a 'which of Reading's players will st...
ajr1871: agree with everything that urzz says, no flambouyance in the team, no...
urzz1871: I'll confess to being completely perplexed and dumbfounded by Reading'...
