Our latest guest post sees us very pleased to welcome Paul Harper, co-host of the Totally Tranmere podcast and the author of an eclectic blog. Here at TTU, we would admit to having covered the Prenton Park club less than we would like to have done in our three years of existence so to be able to call upon the services of Paul is something of a boon. Here, he looks at the remarkable progress the Wirral club has made since Ronnie Moore’s return…and they say, ‘never go back.’ Can one man turn around the fortunes of a football club…
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The PFA Awards: Stuff and Nonsense?
Once upon a time, the PFA Awards were the undisputed measure of a season’s most valuable players. Voted for by the Professionals themselves, the response to their announcement was one of awed hush and consent – how could mere onlookers presume to know better than those involved in the rough and tumble of the actual sport? But the saccharin, sentimental and simply silly award of the 2009 Players’ Player award to Ryan Giggs changed all that. In one fell swoop, footballers were shown to be as susceptible to a bit of old fashioned press lobbying as the rest of us….
The Monday Profile: Leon Cort
Leon Cort has a big summer head of him. While the attention of most of this country will be squarely focused on events in Poland and the Ukraine, his national side Guyana will be stepping out on to the turf at a yet to be determined Mexican stadium; this potential tussle with a man known as Chicharito, the first of a sequence of six games that are the most important in the nation’s footballing history. With his club Charlton seemingly cruising to a place in next year’s Championship, Cort will be galvanised for the steep task ahead and Guyana have…
From SFL to Football League
Our latest scouting report from outside the Football League comes from Craig Telfer, whose website Who the hell is Akabusi? documents the thrills and spills of supporting Scottish Second Division side Stenhousemuir FC. Here, Craig widens his brief to consider those SFL players potentially capable of doing a job in England’s equivalent divisions. The general perception of Scottish football, both home and abroad, is that the game is at its lowest ebb. The administration of Rangers FC – officially the world’s most successful club side and often described as a pillar of Scottish society – has magnified the problems surrounding…
Partisanship vs perspective: in defence of critical distance
“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.” So begins Terry Eagleton’s 2006 review of Dawkins’ much-celebrated book The God Delusion. Let’s be charitable and overlook the irony (to which Eagleton seems oblivious) of such sniffy dismissiveness coming from a literary critic who has openly confessed his own ignorance of both science and theology and yet who is reviewing a scientist’s book on theology. Let’s dwell instead on the substance of his point:…
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Lanterne Rouge: Garath McCleary on signing for Reading today:
"It's amazing to be a...
Lloyd: On the Oxford / Reading thing, Lanterne, you write that "there is no c...
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