Rack and Stack
Tottenham’s £10m acquisition of those Kyles is complete. Showing scant regard for last season’s debate on the unrelenting growth of Premiership squads, ‘Arry’s double signing sees seven full backs in competition for two places. The White Hart Lane faithful will be hopeful that their capture will prove to be slightly more successful than Spurs’ last foray into the Championship transfer market.
Coming to a Championship Ground Soon?
With less than a month to go before the commencement of new Championship season, I thought it would be worth identifying those players currently operating outside the division whom one of the 24 managers might like to take a punt on. Some have been talked about all summer and seem destined to be plying their trade at second tier grounds come August, some have so far escaped too much attention, …
Cloth Cutting in the Wool City
The fourth departee from the Championship to be thrust under The Two Unfortunates microscope are those seemingly perennial upper echelon dwellers Norwich City. Back in the days of the old Third Division South, the East Anglians rarely troubled the press hordes, but the past half century has been good for the Canaries and a return to their 1950s pastures will have come as a major shock, especially as it arrives …
On the Turn?
For the second time in consecutive pre-seasons I made the short journey to Didcot Town’s Loop Meadow to witness Reading attempt to chalk up their annual cricket score over their First Great Western-serviced neighbours.
Last year was a complete whitewash as the Royals strolled to a 9-0 tonking, with Dave Kitson memorably scoring within seconds of strutting on as a second-half sub, but yesterday evening felt different. The car park …
He could make them rich again
Nottingham Forest’s agreement to take Paul McKenna to the City Ground is the latest statement of intent from a side determined to recapture their days of yore. Few players can have clocked up the best part of five hundred starts for a club and then been tempted to move on, but McKenna’s quiet efficiency, incise passing and tigerish tackling have been evident to the Championship cognoscenti for some time now. …