With ten games or less remaining for virtually every Football League side, most supporters have a pretty good idea of what the next few months holds in store for their team: a promotion push; mid-table obscurity; or a fight against relegation. Honing in on the bottom of League Two, a small but significant five point gap has opened up between Bristol Rovers and Barnet in positions 17 and 18 respectively, leaving seven teams adrift and in danger of playing non-league football next season. But, considering a number of factors, which have it in them to pull away to safety from…
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Book Review: The Long Way
The Long Way by A. E. Greb Published by Wholepoint Publications June 2012, £1.50 ASIN: B008A3BLGG A week away from this season’s FA Cup third round, it seems appropriate to look back to A. E. Greb’s account of the 2011-12 competition, published in the Summer as an eBook, a collection of the blog posts which accompanied his ten month peregrinations and which concluded with Chelsea’s win over Liverpool in May (at this point I’ll admit that the result of that particular encounter had escaped me – and this from a boy who could at one point tell you all the showpiece occasion’s goal…
Unexpected Rivalries 3: Reading, Swindon, Oxford and London Irish
The police presence outside Oxford station on Wednesday night was illuminating. As a semicircle of rozzers stood to attention outside the entrance to Coco – a small citywide chain better known as a place for students to take mums and dads at the onset of the imminent academic year – Swindon Town fans began to pile off the trains and down the steps into enemy territory. Leaving aside the extraordinary use of public money and resources on the prelude to a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy first round encounter and the likelihood that such posturing might actually encourage trouble rather than prevent…
The Thursday Preview: Maidenhead Vs Aldershot
While risking sycophancy, it seems fitting to tribute this post to therealfacup. Not so long ago, I had little interest in the Cup’s First Round or anything that preceded it. My focus was on Plymouth Argyle, its status as a Championship club and not a lot else. If asked whether I was a fan of football or Argyle, then my answer was a depressingly parochial one. Fast-forward to the present day, and my perspective’s changed. Not least because of the efforts of Damon and Simon of the aforementioned in promoting the virtue of these early rounds. For me, at least,…
The Under-20 World Cup: A Football League Perspective
In June, Ben Piggott ran the rule over the fortunes of Football League players in that month’s European Under-21 Championship, with Aron Gunnarsson and Mikkel Andersen in particular enjoying less than fruitful campaigns. Now, the man behind the illustrations that adorn this website turns his attention to the recent Under-20 World Cup, a tournanment that has been covered expertly by Two Hundred Percent and ended up with a somewhat Lusophone finale: The traditional Hispano-Iberian hegemony was reasserted at this year’s World Youth Cup, with Mexico, Brazil and Portugal consigning Ghana’s 2009 triumph to the history books by parking up in three…
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