Those of you who have followed the site recently will have read the thoughts of Macclesfield Town supporter Kieran Knowles ahead of D-Day at the foot of League Two. Sadly, Macc didn’t pull through and will kick off next season as a non-league club. Kieran offers his final thoughts on his side’s slide out of The Seventy Two… On the day that Rickie Lambert helped his Southampton side reach the milk and honey land of the Premier League, his former side Macclesfield Town went in the opposite direction and slipped quietly from the Football League altogether. The contrast between the…
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What I want from my football club - Part 4: Basement boys
The Seventy Two has canvassed the opinion of several Football League writers from a variety of different clubs to ask one simple question: what do you want from your football club? Given around 300 words to play with, there were numerous responses so we will be looking at a cross-section every day this week, continuing with the thoughts of supporters of four clubs who have spent 2011/12 towards the bottom of their respective divisions - Doncaster Rovers, Northampton Town, Macclesfield Town and Plymouth Argyle. Doncaster Rovers by Glen Wilson I’m a Doncaster Rovers supporter, because I grew up in Doncaster….
Fat ladies and fairy lights at Macclesfield Town
There are gripping battles at the top and bottom of every division in the Football League, but the most apocalyptic is always the scramble to climb clear of the foot of League Two. Macclesfield Town have been plunging towards the precipice for a number of months, meaning it’s now or never for the Silkmen to string a couple of wins together and save their Football League status. Kieran Knowles reports. A weekly football newspaper recently ran an article on the battle to beat the drop from League Two and quickly came to the conclusion that, “barring a miracle”, Macclesfield Town…
Witless twits and blissful ignorance
A strange episode occurred last year, writes Kieran Knowles, when the former member of a moderately (un)successful rock band (that renowned augur of the music-biz Rob Adcock was quoted on their Myspace page as saying - “What does 2010 hold? For me - I cannot see past this band”: a prediction up there with Harold Camping and his promise of Rapture for this century’s most misjudged prognostication) became, briefly, a work colleague of mine. At first, the novelty factor of this appointment was uniquely enchanting. His stories of meeting Fearne Cotton backstage or sharing a hug with Faithless member Maxi…
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