TTU Awards
TTU Awards 2012-13: Crimes against Football
In a less competitive year, that podgy tosser Steve Evans and his nasty-piece-of-work sidekick Paul Raynor might have had this category sewn up, so tiresome is their relentless abuse of officials.
Similarly, Richard Scudamore and the Premier League would have been worthy winners, their blackmail tactics having once again divided the Football League’s clubs over the issue of parachute and solidarity payments.
Elsewhere, surely no one would wish Sisu …
TTU Awards 2012-13: Worst Kit
Last year, we were left befuddled when, despite numerous attempts on this blog to engage with weightier issues such as the economic geography of football, financial troubles and foreign ownership, these efforts were outperformed by a missive expressing dislike of Brighton’s day-glo green and black away kit. This year, by contrast, the choice has been much simpler.
Cardiff City proved themselves to be a mighty fine football team in …
TTU Awards 2012-13: Best Kit
Bizarrely, our best and worst kits for 2012-13 bear a superficial similarity to one another but that’s a reminder that a club uniform is never a canvas to be judged on aeshetics alone. Tradition and simplicity are not always virtues but just as we found ourselves nodding with approval at the sight of England’s plain, unadorned red shirts on view at the Maracana on Sunday, Nottingham Forest‘s equally …
TTU Awards 2012-13: Loan of the Season
Inevitably, Watford Football Club loom large in this first category of the TTU Awards. We’ve followed the Hornets’ link up to Granada and Udinese closely over the past nine months. First, William Abbs drew our attention to the project back in July; then, Matt Rowson helpfully introduced us to the dramatis personae, before Michael Moruzzi provided a spirited defence as the naysayers gathered and our own co-founder Lloyd…