The first point that needs to be made in this article is remarkably counter-intuitive for one emblazoned with the heading Great Teams: objectively speaking, Cardiff City’s 2002-3 season represented one of underachievement. The division’s pre-season title favourites could only stumble to a disappointing sixth place finish, despite a team expensively assembled due to Sam Hammam’s backing (by which of course I mean his pre-hadron collider physics experiment which …
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Preserving Football’s Heritage: A Modest Proposal
Today, we welcome Susan Gardiner to The Two Unfortunates. Ipswich fan Susan took part in a conversational assessment of the fortunes of Ipswich Town FC back in May. Here, she turns her attention to matters of more general interest and crucial they are indeed given recent events. Susan is on twitter at @susan1878 and blogs at Those Who Will Not Be Drowned.
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What’s the difference between …
Unexpected Rivalries 7: Stoke City and Cardiff City
Last month saw Cardiff triumph in the Premier League’s first South Wales derby. Tonight, the artists formerly known as The Bluebirds will reacquaint themselves with another old foe – yet their grudge with Stoke City, which stretches back to the two clubs’ dark days in the third tier, has its roots not in geography but in betrayal, bitterness, and one enigmatic man’s backside…
Pitching up in the Valleys …
Hull City: Mes que un Club, Mes que un Juego?
I blame Barcelona. Barcelona and Bill Shankly. ‘Mes que un club?’
But what if that club isn’t more than a club? What if they aren’t a great bastion of Catalan nationalism, the collective klaxon of an embattled inner city working class, a cultural front against Francoism, a buzzing wave of souls embodying a Socialist ideal?
What if they’re just Watford? Or Newport County? Or Hull?
It doesn’t matter any more. …
Hopeless Football League Teams 10: Newport County 1987-8
Previous entries in our Hopeless Teams series have provided ample supplies of gallows humour and indeed, the adjective ‘hopeless’ can be interpreted in differing ways. On the one hand, it can contain strong hints of self-mockery, indication of a self-deprecating streak that would be wholly unknown to the average Manchester United fan and arguably the elixir that keeps the average lower league supporter coming back through broad and narrow.…
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