For Number 49 in our Great Teams series, we are pleased to welcome back close friend of the blog Paul Binning, head honcho of the fantastic The Exiled Robin. Paul’s post centres upon a promotion winning team but is more than usually long in providing context to that year both before and after - and I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a fascinating read that makes the typical trajectory of a rollercoaster seem rather humdrum. Paul can be followed on twitter at @TheExiledRobin. … Sometimes, events occur that make you realise your true standing in life. When the emotional mask of expectation is…
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Back in the Ex-USSR: Former Soviet Nationals in the Football League
Amid the relentless cacophony of last Friday’s transfer deadline day, Radio Five Live’s needlessly exhaustive coverage did include an interesting discussion on the whys and wherefores of signing players from the former Soviet Union in the light of Liverpool’s failed bid to take Yevhen Konoplyanka to the club from Dnipro. Examples were given of underperformers from the one time Russian orbit with Martin Keown contrasting Oleh Luzhnyi’s ‘OK’ performances in an Arsenal shirt to that of the beast of a player who had had Marc Overmars running backwards during a Champions League tie against Dynamo Kyiv and the mystifying failure…
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 Awards nomination for best podcast for We Are Going Up! was therefore thoroughly deserved and you should waste no time at all in following this surveymonkey link in order to vote for these weekly…
Book Review: The Nowhere Men
The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin Published by Century 2013, £14.99 They are a mythical breed, not to say a forgotten one in these days where youtube videos are said to inspire signings, but, in an increasingly hybrid and varied form, soccer scouts continue to ply their trade – and yet it’s an aspect of the game that we as punters understand so little of. Hence, Michael Calvin’s new book The Nowhere Men does a relentlessly fascinating job in lifting the lid on the profession. Sure, the grizzled old pro in a touchline windcheater, pulling into Newport Pagnell service station…
TTU Go Predicting: Best Free Agent
A look at the Professional Footballers’ Association list of out of contract and available players becomes more depressing by the year, even if there are Premier League outcasts aplenty whose current availability is often more a consequence of protracted contract negotiations and a choice of suitors. Hence, Chris Baird, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Carlton Cole and the like will end up somewhere eventually. Of those, the pick of the list is perhaps Hitzlsperger and whilst ‘The Hammer’ may well find interest from a top tier team in Europe, his recent injury record and failure to last more than a year at any…
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