All posts tagged Brentford

TTU Go Predicting: Players to Watch

As we head into the second week of our 2013-14 predictions, our focus turns to the players we deem to possess the potential to stand out amongst their peers. Whereas season previews tend to focus on teams more broadly, for which players could this be a year to remember on a personal level?

Starting at the Madejski, having once accused Lionel Messi of being a racist we’ll be watching …

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 1 Preview

Following yesterday’s start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship.

Bradford City

Fairytale Bradford City have added a little sheen to their well built squad as they look to attack League 1 at a canter – Rochdale’s Jason Kennedy and experienced winger Mark Yeates join …

Once More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion

Tonight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects:

Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you’ve mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it’s quite possible mathematically but will take a …

Doing a Radiohead: Football and the Concept of ‘Pay What You Want’

In recent years, the phrase, ‘to do a Radiohead’ has no longer come to represent a retreat into wilful obscurantism following a peak period of success. Ever since the Abingdon School alumni released their album In Rainbows as a pay what you like download in 2007, the concept of allowing the buyer to decide on price has become an occasional feature of the market for goods and services.

Gary …

Revisiting the Price of Football

There comes a point in every football fan’s life when the “sod it, I’m not going moment” occurs. For some Manchester City fans, contributing £62 to Arsenal’s coffers was a step too far. For me, spending £25 to sit in a rickety away end at Brisbane Road on a cold December afternoon watching Exeter toil against an equally uninspiring Leyton Orient side proved beyond even my levels of tolerance …