The Monday Profile: Will Buckley

Posted by on Jun 13, 2011 in The Monday Profile | 4 Comments

The Monday Profile was first conceived in Plymouth’s Fortescue pub over a couple of post-Christmas 2009 ales. Given that this site’s focus invariably falls on club-level and off-the-field issues and concerns, it was felt that a new column that honed in on individual players would allow us to get closer to the Football League’s rank and file. We’d spotted a niche for this; with the blogosphere still in its infancy,

The Monday Profile: Craig Mackail-Smith (with apologies to Scott Sinclair)

Posted by on May 30, 2011 in The Monday Profile | No Comments

As the title above makes clear, I’ll start first with the apologies. Posting about a player who wasn’t involved in this afternoon’s rip-roarer feels like a missed opportunity, but having covered the hero of hat-trick proportions back in November it seems inappropriate to double take. Of course, Sinclair’s fellow tormentor of many a Championship defence Fabio Borini would be a fine substitute but I’ll admit that I only listened to …

The Monday Profile: Danny Kedwell

Posted by on May 23, 2011 in The Monday Profile | 7 Comments

AFC Wimbledon, the club whose establishment was regarded as “not in the wider interests of football” by the FA commission that approved Wimbledon FC’s move away from South London, will be playing in the 72 next season. The blogosphere will explode with myriad AFC-themed pieces over the coming months and rightly so; as Dons supporters reminded us all upon the final whistle at Eastlands on Saturday, “Nine years, it only …

The Monday Profile: Ian Henderson

Posted by on May 16, 2011 in The Monday Profile | 4 Comments
Being dubbed a young player with promise is sometimes the cruellest thing that can happen to a footballer. As contemporaries in the Norwich City youth set-up a decade ago, Ian Henderson and Ryan Jarvis made their first team debuts within six months of each other. In November 2002, Henderson scored as a substitute in his second Canaries appearance. Jarvis, the more precocious of the pair, was the star striker of …

The Monday Profile: Alberto Bueno

Posted by on May 9, 2011 in The Monday Profile | One Comment

If Derby County have stuttered to another unconvincing season, prolonging Nigel Clough’s honeymoon period to the lengthiest in history this side of Alex Ferguson (remember his poor start from the late eighties?), Saturday’s defeat against Reading caught my attention for the performances of two galacticos.

Daniel Ayala was imperious at centre half and the Rams will do well to keep him - he exuded calm and, having already spent a

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