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A winter break: what’s in it for the Football League?
It comes up every year. Poor weather in the winter months leads to cries for a winter break to mirror the experience of many leagues on the continent. These cries have been especially loud this year, with prolonged snow and sub-zero temperatures already playing havoc with fixture lists. Rich Prew assesses the winter break clamour.
The voices in favour of a break are predominately from the bigger clubs. Google the …
Why Elliot Benyon should stay at Torquay United
The key to being a successful striker is having that knack of being in the right place at the right time. In Elliot Benyon, Torquay United have a striker who currently seems to be doing just that. With the vultures circling above the Gulls’ promising attacker, Shaun Murphy advises that he stays put at Plainmoor.
Currently enjoying the most productive spell of his career, with ten goals already this season, …
Dodging the bullet
With heads beginning to roll across the Football League, Rich Prew looks at the fragility of football management and discusses the best way forward for clubs aiming to stabilise in the near future.
Does anyone out there have an occupation with lower job security than the average Football League manager in England? With a few notable exceptions, lengths of tenure at English league clubs have been slipping for a decade, …
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 …
In defence of the League Cup
One of the many, many solutions mooted as part of the master plan to revive English football in the aftermath of Fabio Capello’s failure to bring home the World Cup this summer was, not for the first time, the abolition of the League Cup. What a terrible shame that would be.
It is tempting to stick the knife into the England squad. We could quote salaries. We could quote results. …