Author: Lanterne Rouge
Eye Witness Assessment: Bournemouth are in it Together
At the end of Saturday’s 2-1 win for AFC Bournemouth at Reading, Cherries’ players and officials converged on a spot just outside one of the Madejski Stadium penalty areas and positioned themselves in huddle formation.
After a minute or two of close consultation, the scrum broke and the players stepped forward to garner the adulation of two and a half thousand delirious supporters.
Cheesy? Perhaps? But from the vantage …
Eye Witness Assessment: Chris Powell Needs to be Bolder at Charlton
Money and opportunities are in short supply at Charlton Athletic at the moment but in spite of the fact that key players are injured and a rumoured takeover is in the offing, I couldn’t help feel that Chris Powell could have been bolder as the Addicks tumbled to a narrow 1-0 defeat at Reading on Tuesday.
The likelihood of new ownership is still uncertain. Wyn Grant’s excellent …
Eye Witness Assessment: Blackburn Rovers have no choice but to sell Jordan Rhodes
In his programme notes for Saturday’s less than thrilling 0-0 draw with Reading, Blackburn Rovers’ quietly impressive manager Gary Bowyer told of the outcome of his recent visit to India to meet with the club’s owners, the by now notorious Venky’s.
…The meeting was planned a number of weeks in advance, because there was an international break. It as an ideal opportunity to sit down with the owners face-to-face
Eye Witness Assessment: Leyton Orient and Preston’s Summit Meeting
At the start of the 2012-13 season, blogger Chris Lines posited the theory that that year’s League One title might be there for the taking and a shot shy Sheffield United, a Doncaster which bounced back far more easily than one might have expected and a Tranmere team that simply fell off a cliff did help the division live up to that billing. A year on, however, and the …
Hopeless Football League Teams 10: Newport County 1987-8
Previous entries in our Hopeless Teams series have provided ample supplies of gallows humour and indeed, the adjective ‘hopeless’ can be interpreted in differing ways. On the one hand, it can contain strong hints of self-mockery, indication of a self-deprecating streak that would be wholly unknown to the average Manchester United fan and arguably the elixir that keeps the average lower league supporter coming back through broad and narrow.…