With Norwegian Ståle Solbakken having recently joined the managerial ranks of English football having cut his teeth in Germany; the similarly coiffeured Uwe Rösler has taken the opposite track as a German who conducted his training in Norway. Like Solbakken, Rösler spent some of his playing career in England although his spell on these shores was a much lengthier and more storied one. Manchester City fans still idolise him as the scorer of a half century of goals for the club and his barnstorming, all action style was perfectly suited to a unit that needed to scrap, a world way from the newly…
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The Monday Profile: Sean Murray
Taking a closer look at a Football League personality this week is Matt Rowson, co-pen of Watford blog BHaPPY (whose precursor was BSaD, the site that originally got me [Lloyd] interested in football writing). This morning, Matt considers the recent rise of Academy graduate and next great Hornets hope Sean Murray. Watford are not the only side with a decent track record in terms of producing its own talent, but we do it rather well. Teenage striker Britt Assombalonga recently became the fiftieth Academy product to be given his Watford debut since its inception in 1998, a rate of roughly…
The Monday Profile: Nick Powell
In our recent analysis of the PFA awards, my fellow blogger John McGee highlighted the disagreement that can ensue when debating the worth of leading young players. With Jordan Rhodes valued by the press as a knee jerk £6 million, John pointed out that Adam Le Fondre, the man whose two goals fired Reading to victory over Southampton in the Championship’s recent summit meeting, cost a mere £350,000. Prices seem to be all the more outlandish for players the tenderer side of twenty. One recalls Aston Villa’s £6 million for Fabian Delph, the £5 million disbursed by Arsenal for the services…
The Monday Profile: Harry Kane
Pass and move, it’s the Millwall groove. Thankfully, not another football-themed assault on the eardrums, but the new mantra of Lions boss Kenny Jackett. After what seems like an eternity dangling over the League 1 precipice, Jackett’s season-long efforts to remodel his side’s style of play seem finally to have come to fruition. Millwall currently sit just below champions Reading in the Championship form chart, with five consecutive wins this month. And it hasn’t all been blood and thunder, as might be expected (although there has been a bit of that). The highlights reel from Saturday’s destruction of Ipswich contains a pleasing range of movement and link-up play. Leading the…
The Monday Profile: Kallum Higginbotham
For our profile this week, we welcome back Craig Telfer, author of a deservedly well received post recently identifying those players in Scotland who might attract the attention of NPower League Clubs in the coming months. Craig runs his own blog dedicated to Stenhousemuir FC, Who the hell is Akabusi? and here turns his attention to a former SFL man already plying his trade south of Hadrian’s Wall, but finding opportunities difficult to come by. These are uncertain times for Huddersfield Town’s new forward Kallum Higginbotham. Once one of the most coveted players in Scottish football, the 22-year-old has found…
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