Keep Scunthorpe Standing

Winning promotion to the Championship most certainly has to go down as a good thing, but for some clubs it may eventually pose one specific problem. That’s because teams whose grounds include terraced areas must, after their third season in the top two tiers, convert their grounds into all-seating venues.

23 of the Championship’s current crop have no such worries given that they already occupy all-seater stadiums. Characterless bowls though …

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 …

Is the Championship really “proper footy”?

A multinational oil company have sponsored a “campaign” called Proper Footy, consisting of a Facebook page which decries things such as celebrity players, gold football boots, enticing kids with multi-million pound transfer fees and, most of all from the looks of things, diving. Its mission statement? To lure young supporters to Championship clubs, it seems…

There doesn’t seem to be much point in beating around the bush. The company is …

Dark Times at Port Vale

If ever a start to a season were deceiving, then one can point immediately to Port Vale. Regular contributor Tom Bourne charts an alarming slide over the winter months for the Burslem boys.

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Previewing the fortunes of League One teams for this publication over the summer was a troubling task. As a long-standing supporter of Port Vale, Chairman Norman Smurthwaite’s decision to effectively dispense with the services of …

TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 1 Preview 2016-17

Our League 1 preview this year is a joint effort between regular contributors Tom Furnival-Adams, a Coventry City supporter whose work has appeared in a host of organs including When Saturday Comes and The Guardian and Tom Bourne, the man we have called upon in the past to account for all things Port Vale. Each has taken 12 of the competing teams in the coming season’s third tier …

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