Bloated Premier League squads need ballast and amid the burnt ends of Match of the Day episodes, the fleeting few minutes of highlights from the KC, Molineux or DW Stadiums have been notable for their late cameos from players unfamiliar – your Henrik Pedersens, Okelsandr Yevtushoks and Itzhak Zohars – the men you feel yourself reaching for the Rothman’s successor volume to run the rule over, or, laptop on knees, Wikipedia. For over half a decade, one such gentleman was Ricardo Vaz Tê. ‘He looked decent when he came on’ became a mantra as the former Portugal under-21 international strutted his stuff…
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Turmoil Week: Coventry City
Stage 3 of our examination of the financial architecture of the Football League’s clubs sees us head to Coventry. Ian Palmer is a friend and associate of Neil Allison, custodian of the Sky Blues Blog and here provides his thoughts on the slough of despond facing the Sky Blues, a situation that has been allowed to develop both on and off the pitch. You can follow Ian on Twitter at @iancpalmer. Coventry City, like an awful lot of football clubs these days, are broke. Being a fan, I know that if any kind of offer comes in for one of our…
Turmoil Week: Portsmouth
This week, we shall be running a series of five posts examining the fortunes of 5 clubs that have experienced significant financial and/or organisational turmoil in recent times. Unfortunately, this cross section is but the very precarious tip of a very grubby iceberg indeed - and if you think the problems we shall detail are unique to this quintet alone or indeed the 72 clubs in the Football League, then think again. First up are Portsmouth and we are extra pleased to welcome SJ Maskell, the contributor to a string of tough minded articles covering the south coast outfit in…
Sean O’Driscoll: a Primer
Nottingham Forest fans read on, for we are very pleased to welcome back Glen Wilson, steward of Doncaster Rovers’ Popular STAND Fanzine and late of award winning blog, Viva Rovers. Here Glen provides us with an insight into Sean O’Driscoll, recently installed in a supporting role to Steve Cotterill at the City Ground. ‘The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment’ wrote Nick Hornby and for the most part of course he is right. We are dreamers who specialise in crushing our own dream with pessimistic realism. We could win this… but we’ll probably chuck it away in…
Should Brighton and Hove Albion Stick or Twist?
If one remembers the instant relegation Brighton and Hove Albion suffered on the last occasion they ascended to English football’s second level, it’s been a heartening first half of the season for the Seagulls. Many expected them to do well given the verve they showed in cantering to the League 1 title in May and a position just four points off the play off zone constitutes real progress. Their start was a stunner of course – buoyed by the capacity crowd that welcomed them to the Amex Stadium on August 6; two strikes from new signing Will Buckley heralding their return…
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