It was a close-call, but Danny Ings pipped fellow Claret Kieran Trippier to this year’s YP gong. The Wintonian was simply irrepressible and – to Burnley supporters’ joy – managed to return from the sidelines just as his strike partner Sam Vokes had hobbled off with a season-ending injury. Trippier, who once again claimed the right-back spot in the divisional PFA team of the year, can however be considered …
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Which of Brentford’s Players Will Step Up?
Having recently conducted a player by player analysis of Leicester City’s readiness for Premier League football, it’s clear that the exercise is a markedly different one when it comes to the process of transition lower down the pyramid.
Take League One – a division that has been fearsomely tough this year, with six teams dominating to the degree that the points total enjoyed by Preston North End would …
We Are Going Up! Interview: Podcasting the Football League
Having made a number of appearances on podcasts in recent years including Two Footed Tackle and The Tilehurst End, our founder writers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge are perhaps inclined to go in the corner and hide, such are the demands of stationing oneself behind the microphone. Hence, we are in admiration of anyone who has stuck at it, let alone done it really well indeed.
The recent FSF …
Eye Witness Assessment: Leyton Orient and Preston’s Summit Meeting
At the start of the 2012-13 season, blogger Chris Lines posited the theory that that year’s League One title might be there for the taking and a shot shy Sheffield United, a Doncaster which bounced back far more easily than one might have expected and a Tranmere team that simply fell off a cliff did help the division live up to that billing. A year on, however, and the …
TTU Go Predicting: Teams to Watch
After a 25-year absence, Newport County returned to the Football League in May with an extraordinary play-off final win over Wrexham. For a club who were wound up, reformed and exiled to Gloucestershire in the intervening years, it is a phenomenal and heart-warming achievement. What’s more, they actually look half-decent, and we certainly wouldn’t bet against them to carry last season’s winning form into League 2 and trouble the …




