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 …
In this month’s issue of When Saturday Comes magazine, I cast an eye over Leicester City’s financial prospects as the club homed in on promotion to the Premier League. In all, my article was perhaps a little kind on the Foxes as I gave the benefit of the doubt to the view that the untold riches on offer post-promotion would wipe out the serious ‘ifs’ that surround the club’s …
So. Here we are, then. Pushing two years into the Pozzo’s ownership and the promised land still hasn’t been reached, Watford sit much where they always did somewhere in the middle of the second tier. Two years worth of steady influx of Johnny Foreigners into Vicarage Road (and, in some cases, straight out again), presumably denying match time to locally born lads who would otherwise have been furthering the …
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. …
No one will be surprised I am sure to hear that I am happy to see the back of Billy Davies. I was happy when he left the first time and was not impressed to see him back at the City Ground after the mess of Alex McLeish’s six weeks in charge, which had followed the debacle of Sean O’Driscoll’s sacking.
But that paragraph goes some way to explaining …
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
Phil Lloyd: Thanks, Jim, appreciate your comments. I think we are the lucky ones, ...
Jim Wilkinson: Lovely piece Phil... Brings home the unfathomable concept that playing...
Chris Walker: Tom, apologies. You are indeed correct. My recollection of Burnley's a...
Tom Whittaker: Incredibly unfair comment re: Burnley's away form- we actually managed...
