The Monday Profile
The Monday Profile: Brett Pitman
Bournemouth’s demolition of Peterborough on Saturday was, for many, the surprise result of the weekend. Certainly this website did not predict that the Cherries would so comfortably outplay a side that was two divisions above them last season. Prior to the game, all attention was on Peterborough’s celebrated attacking trio of George Boyd, Craig Mackail-Smith and Aaron McLean, who looked set to cause as much damage to League 1 defences …
The Monday Profile: Roy O’Donovan
The Monday Profile: Leon Britton
Sadly, the spelling of the name is different, though one is still left to ponder if Sheffield United midfielder Leon Britton is named after Baron Brittan of Spennithorne. The Tory grandee is best known for his spell as Home Secretary during the Thatcher years, a period of parsimony that would shame even the egregious George Osborne, so it’s unlikely that the diminutive south Londoner was christened in homage, even …
The Monday Profile: Chris Martin
The Carling Cup of 2008-9 provided little respite for a Luton Town squad predestined Calvinist-style to relegation that season, shorn as they were of 30 points at the starting gate. It was a right Royal romp as the Bedfordshire club left Berkshire with a 5-1 battering, but my chief memory of the evening was a truly snarling performance from Luton’s centre forward – one Chris Martin. His namesake once …
The Monday Profile: Kalifa Cissé
During his time at Reading, Steve Coppell rarely missed an opportunity to reunite with former charges and his signing of Kalifa Cissé for Bristol City was predicted on these pages on the manager’s arrival at Ashton Gate in the Spring.