If anyone took any account at all of what the Press say, then falling out of the League is an experience akin to being forced to endure a weekend getaway with George Osborne. Quite simply, it’s “The End” as The Fast Show’s resident artist Johnny would have opined. Hence, the early occupants of places 91 and 92 (not 71 and 72, I’ll stress to you) won’t be feeling too good about themselves this early Autumn. Cast your mind back to 2005 and the north Londoners were roaring back into the Football League, 12 points clear of Saturday’s opponents. The following…
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Book Club
As a card-carrying member of the Society of Young Publishers and a certified football spod, I’m always on the lookout for ways to bring two of my major interests together. Happy was the Christmas Day I spent with David Goldblatt’s 911-page whopper The Ball is Round in one hand and an isosceles turkey sandwich in the other.A brief discussion this week with my fellow blogger Lloyd on current reading material set me on a quest for the best books on all things Football League. And I came up with very little. Despite a recent upsurge in quality football-related tomes, such…
The Thursday Preview: Exeter Vs Charlton
The first international break of the new season takes place this weekend, and with England playing on Friday evening fans are being encouraged to attend a local non league game on Saturday afternoon. People living in the central belt and the north west will be spoilt for choice, but what of football fans based in the westcountry where the standard of pyramid teams sometimes isn’t much greater than what you’ll see on the council pitches of Plymouth and Exeter?Unless you’re in the vicinity of Wordsworth Drive in Taunton to see the Somerset town’s side host Stourport Swifts in a Southern…
Five Big Second Tier Signings
Craig Bellamy’s almost inexplicable arrival in the hallways of the previously thought to be cash strapped Cardiff City Football Club have been met with disbelief on Championship message boards this Summer Tuesday. Even the tiny man’s refusal to comment on the suggestion that Manchester City were unwilling to let him leave for a fellow Premier League club and the fact that it is only a loan deal have failed to take the edge off the anticipation at one of the most sensational (the word is for once not used lightly) signings of recent times, but in reality, this still potent…
Whatever you say I am, that’s what I’m not
Airing your opinions in public can be a chastening experience. In an arena as changeable as football, the potential for being proven wrong is ever present danger for the fan foolish enough to part with his two penn’orth.I wasn’t the only one to roll my eyes at the notion of signing Ipswich reserve forward Kevin Lisbie. ‘At least if he’s on loan, we can send him back’ was the prevailing thought on hearing news of the 32-year-old Jamaican international’s imminent return to South London. How wrong could I have been. One scuffed shot from becoming the latest boo-boy at the…
P Squires: Interesting read, but '...which by train is comfortably further from L...
Lloyd: An enjoyable, snappy piece of writing Will.
Going through Worcester...
Frank Heaven: LR - yes, that's right, with Albion and Wolves being in Staffordshire....
Lanterne Rouge: Great piece Will. Of course country boundary changes do tend to confus...
Eoghan Darbyshire: Quality player, could see he was head and shoulders above the rest of...
