The Monday Profile
The Monday Profile: James Chester
My fellow blogger Frank Heaven and I are often prone to debate the merits of players labelled “ball playing centre halves”. It’s a term pregnant with meaning- and a slight damning with feint praise is never far from the equation. For just as Glen Johnson’s attacking attributes from full back are often highlighted only to stress his defensive inadequacies, centre backs who can “play a bit” are usually sniffed at …
The Monday Profile: Mick Wadsworth
To date the Monday Profile has been a column devoted exclusively to pen portraits of individual players, but yesterday’s whiteout posed a bit of a dilemma. With just 9 games surviving the freeze, options were few and far between for this week’s Spotlight, particularly since seven of those contests were between Championship sides, none of which I’ve managed to see in the flesh this term.
My first thought was to …
The Monday Profile: Jordon Mutch
Max Gradel would have been an obvious choice for today’s Profile, but given that we’ve already pretty much covered the West African wide man, I thought that a consideration of Jordon Mutch, who caught my eye in Watford’s televised win at Loftus Road 10 days ago, was more appropriate.
The Monday Profile: Mark Wright
Even if Dion Dublin had gone on to achieve diddly squat in his career, Cambridge United fans would forever cherish his memory for a youthful one man show against local rivals Peterborough in 1990. Similarly, Mark Wright, though only a loan star, will have secured himself a place in Shrewsbury Town’s spangled hall of fame after a hat-trick in the 4-0 shellacking of Hereford United a couple of …
The Monday Profile: Steve Morison