Cheltenham Town
Future England stars of the Football League
During England’s European Championship qualifier with Switzerland last week, The Seventy Two asked Football League fans whether there were any players currently at their club who may play for England one day.
It is rarely that simple, of course. And it was a slightly hypocritical question given the opinion piece published on this very site on the subject of Connor Wickham a couple of months ago.
Nevertheless, here are the …
Is your club getting value for money from agents?
The Football League has published a list of total fees paid to agents by each club during the 2009/10 season. The figures in full can be found here.
By way of some brief analysis, The Seventy Two ranked every Football League club in order of how much they spent on agents and then cross-referenced this with last year’s finishing positions.
The end result is the table found below. It …
Tough task ahead for Yates and Cheltenham
This is an important first summer for Mark Yates in his relatively new post as manager of Cheltenham Town. A legend as a player, Yates did little more than a satisfactory job last season in stabilising the club and securing another term in the Football League after Martin Allen’s frankly disastrous 11-month reign.
A sign of how bad things were last season was the selection of 39-year-old striker Julian Alsop …