Author: Lanterne Rouge
A Cautious Welcome for QPR’s New Stadium Plans
Just before Christmas, Queens Park Rangers announced ambitious plans to move into a new stadium by the start of the 2018-19 season, signalling the arrival of an off-field component to Tony Fernandes’ much debated generosity to the club.
Partners include the company Stadium Capital Developments and the plan is to acquire land holdings in conjunction with Network Rail and the Genesis Housing Group, the arena part of the …
Book Review: Red Card Roy
Red Card Roy
by Roy McDonough
Published by Vision Sports Publishing
2012, £12.99
Despite being present at hundreds of lower league games throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I don’t actually recall seeing Roy McDonough play in the flesh although it’s highly unlikely that I didn’t, the picaresque striker having notched up over 650 appearances in both league and non-league between 1976 and 1994 and having enjoyed a successful spell …
Book Review: Tales From The Secret Footballer
Tales from the Secret Footballer
Published by Guardian Books
November 2013, £7.99
The Secret Footballer columns run by The Guardian for three years or so now have been an entertaining sideshow to the usual Premier League spotlight but in recent months, interest in this cleverly nurtured phenomenon has dropped off a little – for there can be very little doubt now that the man in question is Dave Kitson.…
Football and High Speed Rail 2: The Pros and Cons
One of the more emotive of political causes in recent times has been the plan to build a new high speed rail line between London, the North of England and the Midlands; the now notorious High Speed 2 project – often abbreviated to plain HS2.
With construction due to begin in 2017, the plan is for the line to extend north westwards from Euston station in the capital to …
Review: The Football Pink Issue 1
Self-propelled football writing on the internet has been up and running for some time now and while a number of sites have now established themselves as reliable go-to sources of articles, a recent phalanx of writers has emerged in their wake.
Enter The Football Pink, stewarded by Mark Godfrey. The publication has attempted to tackle head on the issue of how to make money in a field …