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TTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club Championship Preview

By on July 24, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 39 Comments
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The hubbub engulfing our League 1 and League 2 previews this week has highlighted the sensitivity of the average football fan. Now it’s time for the Championship, a division in which, contrary to appearances, not quite all the teams start with B.

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The high farce of the Tykes’ last minute escape against Huddersfield confirmed David Flitcroft’s emergence as one of the Football League’s most promising managers in April …

Are You Experienced? Old Pros in the Championship

By on December 28, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with 4 Comments
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The January transfer deadline is less than a week away now and message boards everywhere are heralding a cry for more experience to be added to Championship squads. The judicious addition of a central defender with a Premier League background or a proven striker could be enough to convert pretenders into serious challengers. An extra injection of class could elevate a team above the hoi polloi scrambling to avoid the …

Eight Out of Work Managers Revisited

By on December 17, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with 1 Comment
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The serious lack of imagination shown by Football League chairmen continues to fuel the managerial carousel. Almost three years ago, we were bemused by Paul Hart’s arrival at Crystal Palace while the likes of Alan Irvine, Brian Laws and Darren Ferguson played musical chairs. Two and a half years on and it’s Dougie Freedman, Mick McCarthy and Dave Jones making sideways moves, as well as Laws again. The …

Weighing in on the Price of Football

By on October 22, 2012 in the Category Uncategorized with 16 Comments
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Politicians like to talk about the squeezed middle - a concept that focus groups tell them plays well to a hard-working and hard-pressed often middle class demographic who have done nothing wrong financially but find the costs of living creeping ever further up so, through no fault of their own, fall towards the poverty line.

It may make for a catchy soundbite at party conferences but said squeeze is …

Great Football League Teams 39: Charlton Athletic 1997-8

By on October 15, 2012 in the Category Great Teams with 1 Comment
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The 39th step in our Great Teams series sees the archive approach its third anniversary - and we are delighted to welcome Al Gordon, purveyor of the eclectic God, Charlton and Punk Rock website to TTU Towers; Al having become a regular at The Football Attic in recent months. Here. Al waxes lyrical on the subject of the Addicks’ 1997-8 vintage - he can be followed on Twitter here.…

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