Blades and Posh push the boundaries

Posted by on Aug 8, 2011 in Championship, Peterborough United, Sheffield United, The Seventy Two | One Comment

There was plenty of potential for fairytale throughout the opening weekend of the Football League. Various national media outlets sent their willing staff off around the country, with the two main stories of the day involving comebacks. AFC Wimbledon briefly threatened one after clawing back a two-goal deficit at home to Bristol Rovers before succumbing to a late penalty, but their presence in league football is already one of the …

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The Seventy Two Unfortunates Football League season preview

Posted by on Aug 1, 2011 in Accrington Stanley, AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot Town, Barnet, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Bradford City, Brentford, Brighton, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Burnley, Burton Albion, Bury, Cardiff City, Carlisle United, Championship, Charlton Athletic, Cheltenham Town, Chesterfield, Colchester United, Coventry City, Crawley Town, Crewe Alexandra, Crystal Palace, Dagenham and Redbridge, Derby County, Doncaster Rovers, Exeter City, Gillingham, Hartlepool United, Hereford United, Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Ipswich Town, League Two, Leeds United, Leicester City, Leyton Orient, Macclesfield Town, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Milton Keynes, Morecambe, Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Oxford United, Peterborough United, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale, Portsmouth, Preston North End, Reading, Rochdale, Rotherham United, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Shrewsbury Town, Southampton, Southend United, Stevenage, Swindon Town, The Seventy Two, Torquay United, Tranmere Rovers, Walsall, Watford, West Ham United, Wycombe Wanderers, Yeovil Town | 6 Comments

The Seventy Two has joined forces with fellow Football League blog The Two Unfortunates, not to mention fans of all 72 clubs in the Football League, to bring you a full 108-page season preview.

Click on the image below to read online or click here to download the PDF.

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The Burton Blade

Posted by on Apr 15, 2011 in Burton Albion, Championship, League Two, Sheffield United, The Seventy Two | No Comments

Sheffield United supporter Ian Rands has his own side to worry about. The Blades are currently bottom of the Championship and look set to tumble out of the division without so much as a whimper. But there is another relegation-threatened team that he has one eye on, thanks to a former Bramall Lane hero.

Thursday 15th May 2003 saw one of the greatest matches I have ever seen in my …

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Five Stars: Sheffield United’s best players in the 21st century

Posted by on Mar 13, 2011 in Championship, Sheffield United, The Seventy Two | One Comment

There was only ever going to be one person that would be asked to pick Sheffield United’s five best players of the last decade or so - Blades fan Ian Rands of A United View on Football. Ian has selected five Bramall Lane legends from the Warnock era, two of whom remain at the club today.

Michael Brown

If ever a player of recent years had the best spell …

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The Championship run-in: a very brief overview

Posted by on Mar 4, 2011 in Barnsley, Bristol City, Burnley, Cardiff City, Championship, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Doncaster Rovers, Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Preston North End, QPR, Reading, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield United, Swansea City, The Seventy Two, Watford | 5 Comments

At this stage of the Championship season, most teams have stabilised at a position that reflects their overall quality. There are some anomalies, of course, with Portsmouth perhaps the most pressing of these - Pompey have won their last five - but, generally speaking, you can measure the task ahead by a team’s league position.

So let’s do precisely that. Listed below is the current Championship table including the average …

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