Author: The Two Unfortunates
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Worst Kit
It just had to be Newcastle United’s away shirt, which was an insult to evening primroses across the world. The team looked like a stag party, all the members of which had vomited down their shirts. No wonder Stephen Taylor got beaten up after posing for this photo.
An honourable mention to Cardiff for David Marshall’s acid pink goalie top.
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Best Kit
The best shirt goes to West Bromwich Albion for their home number, and not just for the lack of sponsor. Understated, traditional, no colours totally anathema to the club, unsullied by ugly panels, manufacturer’s logo and crest in alignment across the chest, a t-shirt style collar … it’s practically perfect. It stood out from the template kits elsewhere in the league (yes, that’s you Middlesbrough, Peterborough, Plymouth Argyle, Bristol City, …
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Best website
As newcomers to the blogging game, the excellent range of online materials pertaining to football has been amazingly useful in helping us learn more and to take our first fledgling footsteps. We shall be conducting a more detailed review of the offerings out there in the coming weeks but as far as these awards are concerned, our contributors have identified two sites that are of a particularly impressive nature.
Matt …
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Best Fans
A kind interpretation of Nigel Clough would depict him as slowly building towards something significant at Derby County. After all, he spent the best part of a decade across the county boundary at Burton and was ultimately rewarded with success. The naysayers are having none of it of course: Derby were downright terrible in 09-10. A club with their resources and a proud history of two Championships in the …
TTU Awards 2009/2010: Flop of the Season
As Csaba Abrahall bemoans in this month’s WSC, Tamás Priskin’s £1.7m move from Watford to Ipswich last August seemed ill-fated from the off; the ungainly Magyar arriving days after reserve team prospect Jordan Rhodes’s unpopular departure to Huddersfield. Watford website BHaPPY described him as the “ugly duckling finally [who had] matured into a swan” a year ago, but such praise has been less than forthcoming at Portman Road where Priskin’s …