In the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who’s who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that they’ll each do well, but suggest that they’ll have plenty of competition, not least from Southend and York. … AFC Wimbledon It’s fair to say that the AFCW squad has more or less been in constant flux since the club gained Football League status two years ago. A number of players have been and gone and it’s only now that the team is…
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TTU Awards 2013-14: Manager of the Season
The Ginger Mourinho? Not really – for a start, Sean Dyche comes across as a thoroughly decent human being and The Ginger Pellegrini’ would be a more apt label. How could it be anyone else? For Dyche has perhaps bested even the likes of Danny Wilson, Paul Jewell and Brian McDermott in elevating an underpaid and unheralded squad to the heights of the Premier League. It should be remembered that Dyche spent a sum total of £400,000 on a single player and it truly restores one’s faith in the sport to see him succeed. Elsewhere, a slightly more leftfield choice…
Friends reunited as Flitcroft and Hill face off in derby
In a curious quirk of fate, last Friday night’s match between Bury and Rochdale not only involved two clubs located little more than five miles apart, but also two men who’ve spent much of the last fifteen years considerably closer to one another than that. In the visitors’ camp: Keith Hill. In the home dugout: David Flitcroft, who played with Hill at Spotland before working as his assistant both there and at Barnsley, taking charge at the Tykes after Hill’s dismissal. After trying their luck and failing at Championship level in south Yorkshire, both find themselves back on the more…
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…
TTU Go Predicting: Trouble Ahead
Financially speaking – and the majority of us did interpret ‘trouble ahead’ through a fiscal lens when discussing potential candidates – this could be a tough year for Football League clubs. With a stifling economic outlook, more pressure will be on income streams and it may very well be that a greater number of clubs risk the wrath of the tax man and the authorities still in 2013-14. Indeed, a BBC Football League survey earlier this year reported that more than two thirds of the 41 Football League clubs who responded were worried about the financial health of teams in…
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