All posts tagged Burnley

Should Burnley Stick or Twist after promotion?

Burnley

Late last year, in an appearance on the We Are Going Up! podcast, I predicted that Wycombe Wanderers might be in a position to make a late surge for an automatic promotion place the following May.

Despite escaping relegation due to Bristol Rovers’ quite frankly unfathomable failure to defeat Mansfield Town, the Chairboys singularly failed to live up to my billing – but elsewhere on the ‘cast, I …

How Burnley became the Championship’s surprise package

Later today, Burnley and Leicester City meet in what amounts to a real Championship decider, the two teams having been far and away the best and most consistent the Football League has had to offer in 2013-4. To our shame, we have criminally under covered Burnley so far this season so by way of redress, we are delighted to welcome Jamie Smith, Editor of the Clarets blog nonaynever.net. …

Decline and Fall?: Football and “Failing” Towns

Last month The Economist hit the headlines for publishing a distinctly unflattering portrait of several British towns including Wolverhampton, Hull, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. As the stats - for unemployment in particular, but also educational standards, welfare cuts and numbers of empty retail units - made clear, the towns and cities in question are undeniably enduring tough times. But the emotive choice of title for the article (“Rustbelt

TTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club Championship Preview

The hubbub engulfing our League 1 and League 2 previews this week has highlighted the sensitivity of the average football fan. Now it’s time for the Championship, a division in which, contrary to appearances, not quite all the teams start with B.

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The high farce of the Tykes’ last minute escape against Huddersfield confirmed David Flitcroft’s emergence as one of the Football League’s most promising managers in April …

TTU Awards 2012-13: Manager of the Season

Of all the categories this year, our opinion formers were most divided on this. Sure, the collection of silverware is all important but it’s as much about the raw materials and how far they are stretched. Hence, a number of bosses deserve credit for exceeding expectations - those gentlemen who chose to forget this when assessing Nigel Adkins and last year’s winner Brian McDermott would do well to take …