Author: Lloyd
Mental Health Awareness Week: On Being a Football Fan
Football is one of the few things in life that has the power to consistently affect my state of mind for better or worse, so when I started to think about how I might go about exploring its relationship with mental health to kick off a mini-series of posts on this website to mark Mental Health Awareness Week I couldn’t resist looking inwards.
Although such a focus might appear …
TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2016-17
Accrington Stanley
Regardless of whether Accrington went up last year, their team was destined to be broken up, such was their quality. With Matty Crooks and Josh Windass having already signed pre-contract agreements in January to join Rangers, Stanley have since seen fellow starters Piero Mingoia, Tom Davies and Ross Etheridge leave for a trio of League 2 rivals, rendering their squad bereft of the sheen that turned so many …
TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16
Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it could be a long season for supporters of Carlisle, Dagenham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Morecambe and Newport.
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AFC Wimbledon
For the first half of last season, Wimbledon looked like they might just push on. Matt Tubbs …
Neil Warnock Week: The Argyle Years
Despite managing the Pilgrims for less than 100 games back in the nineties, Neil Warnock remains a firm favourite amongst Plymouth Argyle supporters today — so much so that his name continues to surface every time the team goes on a bad run of form. ‘Warnock would sort this mess out’, so goes the mantra.
At points, a return wouldn’t have been out of the question — not least …
Hot Seat Narratives: Looking Beyond the Manager
The stats relating to the duration of managerial spells are, as you might expect, damning. This season, the average length of employment across the Premier and Football League’s 92 clubs is 1.64 seasons. In the Championship the mean is even worse, standing at 0.82 seasons. Between the Premier League and League Two, 47 of the 92 managers currently in position are yet to complete a full season with their …