The January transfer deadline is less than a week away now and message boards everywhere are heralding a cry for more experience to be added to Championship squads. The judicious addition of a central defender with a Premier League background or a proven striker could be enough to convert pretenders into serious challengers. An extra injection of class could elevate a team above the hoi polloi scrambling to avoid the drop into League One. It’s held that the examples of Charlie Austin and Dwight Gayle are untypical. What your club needs to collect that fabled £90 million is a wise…
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Eight Out of Work Managers Revisited
The serious lack of imagination shown by Football League chairmen continues to fuel the managerial carousel. Almost three years ago, we were bemused by Paul Hart’s arrival at Crystal Palace while the likes of Alan Irvine, Brian Laws and Darren Ferguson played musical chairs. Two and a half years on and it’s Dougie Freedman, Mick McCarthy and Dave Jones making sideways moves, as well as Laws again. The message is – don’t be out of a job for too long or you’ll be viewed as yesterday’s man. No matter how disappointing one’s spell at the helm of a football team,…
TTU’s Goodreads: 26-10-12
Having been accustomed to tweeting links to some of our favourite articles published elsewhere in recent months, we have decided today to formalise the process by instituting a new series at The Two Unfortunates. This will point the way to three of the pieces we have enjoyed most over a 7 day period and these could be blog posts, articles in established media, podcasts or tumblr-style images. We hope to maintain this on a weekly basis and here is our first set of choices: It’s hard to forgive Freedman his decision to quit, Five Year Plan Fanzine Many a piece has…
Ups and downs
Two months into the new campaign, and we’re in a position to assess how things are starting to shape up for the six teams either promoted from or relegated to the Championship. Let’s begin with last season’s champions Reading. Lanterne Rouge’s side have recently been the primary subject of an excellent discussion post examining Premier League survival prospects on this very site. For that reason, I’ll focus my attention on specific observations in the light of having seen them in the flesh at the Madejski on Saturday, when they were unfortunate not to claim all three points from the encounter…
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Mark: Also you forgot John Lillington the Bristol city secretary he had a lo...
Tom: "There a school of thought that goalkeeper is the one position one can...
harry m: That po match against Birmingham is my favourite football match ever....
Dominic: I saw Swindon take on Coventry on Good Friday. As a Coventry fan I tho...
