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 through fingers at what Reading’s new signing Royston Drenthe will do next for although there were more loose cannons at the Battle of Trafalgar, surely none was as potent. A strange…
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TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
We’re baaack! Kicking off this year’s look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who’ll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on where they might finish. Then, tomorrow and Wednesday, we put the spotlight on League 1 and the Championship respectively before spending the rest of the time leading up to August 3 offering forth some predictions for the campaign which in some way mirror our annual end of season awards posts. Accrington Stanley James Beattie’s never really come across as management material and it…
The Thursday Preview: Burton Albion Vs AFC Wimbledon
In his regular column for The Seventy Two, AFC Wimbledon striker Jack Midson tells us that the latest prank to achieve popularity among the players is to place items of fruit in each other’s kit bags. Given that in their heyday, the original club’s ‘Crazy Gang’ were prone to setting fire to Armani suits, smothering jock straps with Deep Heat and christening taxi doors with steel toe caps, this does seem a little mild. One can only imagine the scorn a Vinnie Jones or Wally Downes would show in the face of such timidity.Still, the bonds to the Plough lane mob are still…
The Monday Profile: James Collins
Following my side’s two successive relegation seasons after a decent stretch in the Championship, I’ve now reached the point at which I’m struggling to recognise opposition players. Hell, I’m even having trouble with our own.It’s only been two years since those halcyon days when I was accustomed to seeing the same faces and was able to build up personal beef with individuals (since you ask, I never had much time for Steven Thompson or Paul Ince) but this past year or so has been like starting out again. With Football Manager forcibly banished from the household for ever more, I’ve…
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