TTU Awards
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Best Kit
Picking a favourite football kit is an endeavour not too far removed from naming one’s favourite dictator – an aberration here, a crime against humanity there. Our motley band have stepped forth in an attempt to split the Pol Pots from the VI Lenins in this year’s bunch.
As with most votes there has been no clear winner so the arbiter has been the author of the article. Hence QPR’s …
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Best Fans
By a nose, Scunthorpe United take this year’s Best Fans Award. Last season, the gong went to Pride Park for Derby’s 29,207 average gate, “a freak of nature” according to my co-editor Lanterne Rouge. The Iron may not have enjoyed the same kind of footfall, but their Keep Scunthorpe Standing Campaign, championed by the Football Supporters’ Federation, attracted interest and support from across the media, with noteworthy articles coming from …
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Flop of the Season
It’s perhaps unfair to blame all the miseries of one club on one man, and Kris Boyd’s improvement in fortunes on swapping the red of Teesside for Trentside only heaps further ignominy on Project Strachan; but the disjunct between the reputation of a man with 174 goals plundered north of Hadrian’s Wall and the miserable nature of his performances for Boro was startling. He scored six times, but it was
…TTU Awards 2010/2011: Bargain Buy of the Season
Given that this year’s awards involved a six man panel nominating across three leagues of twenty four, there was bound to be divergence in opinion but in the Bargain Buy category we also encountered a further dilemma: what, ‘in these challenging times’, constitutes a good deal?
He spent a little time at Brighton during 2009-10 but the gratis signing of Iñigo Calderón, unattached after a long association with Alavés, went …
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Loan of the Season
Like Achilles’ ankles or Steffi Graf’s backhand, Swansea City’s weakness over the past few seasons of approximate excellence has been all too obvious. Jason Scotland was the key fulcrum for a time, but the goals for column has rarely been a totalizer at the Liberty. That all ended this Spring when Brendan Rodgers - he of the Big League contacts - took a drive down Fulham Broadway and came back
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