For the second in our narratives exploring fans differing attitudes to promotion to the Premier League, we are pleased to welcome back Chris Walker, @OneDaveBamber on twitter and the maestro behind the Measured Progress blog. As a fan of Blackpool FC, Chris looks back to a season we ourselves chronicled in the first year of this blog’s life.
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“Blackpool in the Premier League? Yeah, right!”
For a …
Once upon a time, earlier on in my real career in book publishing, I was present at some tense negotiations in which a nicotine moustachioed representative of the National Union of Journalists lost the room a bit with the old adage that ‘property is theft’.
At the time, our smooth operator of a company MD plunged his head into his hands, the look on his face something akin to …
When Vincent Tan, the Malaysian owner of Cardiff City, made the – apparently unilateral - decision to change the club’s colours from blue to red, I posted a few remarks on Twitter intended to express some solidarity with those Cardiff supporters who felt that this change was the last straw. Some fans had even made the painful decision to stop going to watch their own club as a result.…
Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this season’s Championship - a competition where extortionate transfer fees, underqualified managers and frankly terrifying owners hold sway, where parachute payments warp the competition and everyone is indulging in the filthy scramble for Premier League …
Credit to last year’s winners Wolverhampton Wanderers who have bounced back under the shrewd stewardship of Kenny Jackett and might fancy their chances of making it a complete recovery were not their fans keenly aware of the dangers of hubris.
Given this, the category turned out to be fairly split with Tranmere Rovers (top of League 1 in January 2013, relegated by May the following year), Northampton Town (from …
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
Phil Lloyd: Thanks, Jim, appreciate your comments. I think we are the lucky ones, ...
Jim Wilkinson: Lovely piece Phil... Brings home the unfathomable concept that playing...
Chris Walker: Tom, apologies. You are indeed correct. My recollection of Burnley's a...
Tom Whittaker: Incredibly unfair comment re: Burnley's away form- we actually managed...
