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The PFA Awards: Stuff and Nonsense?

By on April 26, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with 15 Comments
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Once upon a time, the PFA Awards were the undisputed measure of a season’s most valuable players. Voted for by the Professionals themselves, the response to their announcement was one of awed hush and consent – how could mere onlookers presume to know better than those involved in the rough and tumble of the actual sport?

But the saccharin, sentimental and simply silly award of the 2009 Players’ Player …

Once, Twice, Three Times Martin Allen

By on April 20, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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This week, Barnet Football Club turned once again to an old hand. Here, Tim Fletcher provides his reaction:

Who did you say we’ve appointed?

It is perhaps typical of the lot of a Barnet supporter that the moment you go on holiday and beyond reach of a mobile phone, let alone the internet, that once again we have an end of season change of manager.

For a club that …

From League of Ireland to Football League

By on February 29, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with 2 Comments
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It’s hard to guess what level League of Ireland players would be capable of playing at elsewhere, at least I have always found it so. When Kevin Doyle was signed by Reading from my own club Cork City I remember wondering why on earth they overlooked his more prolific strike partner John O’Flynn. Although O’Flynn has since found success at Barnet and Exeter, there are clearly factors for consideration above …

Unemployment and Football

By on February 25, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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At the beginning of every summer, a list of free agents is circulated amongst British clubs and managers. Here, Dan Mobbs of the excellent Three Match Ban speaks to a player who unwittingly found himself on last year’s register.

Unemployment and the anxious search for work are simply not things associated with top flight football, as being a free agent from a Premier League club is ostensibly a financially profitable …

The Monday Profile: Grant Basey

By on January 10, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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A lot of column centimetres have been devoted to Huddersfield Town striker Jordan Rhodes in recent weeks and to have kept his head while others around him have been placing it upon the financial guillotine has been admirable – yes, that’s you David Gold. Three excellent articles in The Seventy Two have explored the appeal of the man while our own blogger Ben profiled him in these pages as 2012 …

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