We’re baaack! Kicking off this year’s look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who’ll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on where they might finish. Then, tomorrow and Wednesday, we put the spotlight on League 1 and the Championship respectively before spending the rest of the time leading up to August 3 offering forth some predictions for the campaign which in some way mirror our annual end of season awards posts. Accrington Stanley James Beattie’s never really come across as management material and it…
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Fortunes Collide for Plymouth Argyle and John Sheridan
It’s a well worn cliché that the period over Christmas and New Year is a crucial one for professional football clubs in England. With 5 games played in the space of just two weeks, it can define a season. Sadly for Plymouth Argyle supporters, 2012-13’s festive fortnight was abysmal. Having picked up just 2 points from the 15 available, the Pilgrims now find themselves in the League Two relegation places. That it’s come as no surprise whatsoever to the vast majority of fans is perhaps the most frustrating thing about this particular pickle. Despite surviving relegation last term, the Pilgrims…
TTU Awards 2011-12: Best Away Trip
There are compensations that come with a tumble down the divisions. While Championship fans must largely contend with a sequence of out of town meccano sheds, visits to Frankie and Benny’s and repeated attempts to negotiate those ubiquitous metal railings that align our national dual carriageways, League 2 in particular can throw up some pleasingly traditional sensations. It’s sad then to recount that Football League fans will be deprived of the chance to re-enact our 2011-12 Best Away Trip next season for a TTU jaunt to Hereford United wins the accolade. Edgar Street is marvellously quirky and old-fashioned of course but its…
The Thursday Preview: Bournemouth Vs Chesterfield
Forgive me for suggesting this, but this bottom of the table match seems a lot less special an occasion than the last time these two met. That game marked the passage into the history books of one of the few remaining `proper’ English football grounds, Saltergate, rendering the 2-1 win for the home side frankly irrelevant. But for that day’s visitors, the game was the culmination of a bookie-defying promotion season, and confirmed Eddie Howe and his young side as ones of whom to take note.Just over a year later, though, Bournemouth fans could be forgiven for wondering where all…
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