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How Swindon Town’s Link with Tottenham is Starting to Divide
We live in an era where the inviolable independence of football clubs is starting to become a thing of the past. After our recent examination of Charlton Athletic’s Belgian connection, guest writer Alex Cooke turns his attention to the somewhat looser but still significant link between Swindon Town and Tottenham Hotspur. Alex is a freelance writer and blogger and contributes to TheWashbag.com and WeAreGoingUp, largely on the …
Which of Leicester City’s Players Will Step Up?
In this month’s issue of When Saturday Comes magazine, I cast an eye over Leicester City’s financial prospects as the club homed in on promotion to the Premier League. In all, my article was perhaps a little kind on the Foxes as I gave the benefit of the doubt to the view that the untold riches on offer post-promotion would wipe out the serious ‘ifs’ that surround the club’s …
Reflecting on Relationship Between Britpop and Football
Unless you’ve been hiding under a stone for the past month you’ll have noticed the media, and in particular the BBC, working itself into a frenzy over the 20th anniversary of ‘Britpop’. To many this level of nostalgia for a musical movement which was, if anything, merely the collection of a handful of zeitgeist wresting retrograde magpies sticks in the craw. ‘Britpop’ wasn’t a cohesive genre, less still a …
Coventry City Face Up To Another Year in the Third Tier
When, in March 2013, Coventry City left the Ricoh Arena in what, in hindsight, resembled Walter White’s frantic attempts to gather his dirty money and bury it in the desert before Hank could reach it in the final season of Breaking Bad, it seemed almost inconceivable that the club’s absence from its purpose-built stadium could be truly long-term. Such a situation was virtually without precedent, and however bad the …
Survival Instincts? Fulham and Crystal Palace Living on the Edge
Two consecutive Saturday afternoons; two London clubs battling to avoid relegation; two games against a Newcastle side out of form and with little to play for. Ideal circumstances in which to assess the current predicaments of Fulham and Crystal Palace - and their chances of Premier League survival.
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He may no longer be Fulham’s owner but, as someone obsessed with car crashes, there’s a …