All posts tagged Carlisle United

TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16

Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it could be a long season for supporters of Carlisle, Dagenham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Morecambe and Newport.

AFC Wimbledon

For the first half of last season, Wimbledon looked like they might just push on. Matt Tubbs …

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview

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 …

Book Review: Red or Dead

David Peace has established himself as one of Britain’s most vital novelists of recent times and following on from the success of The Damned United (the film version of which has been reviewed in these pages), the Yorkshireman last year turned his attention to the game across the Pennines. Here, Jon Arnold - @The_Arn on twitter - treats us to a review essay of the new novel …

Never Write Off a Wounded ‘Banger’ - Carlisle United Will Go Down Swinging

This time four years ago Carlisle United stood on the brink of glory. A single win from their last four games against Leeds United, Southend, Millwall or Bournemouth would have been enough for the Cumbrians to claim the final automatic promotion spot from League One and reach the heady heights of English football’s second tier for the first time in 20 years.

Some fans will tell you that the …