Confessions of a Football Reporter …another Biggs at Large By Alan Biggs, Published by Vertical Editions, August 2011, £12.99, ISBN: 9781904091516 In the second of three book reviews we should be publishing this week, we welcome back Ian Rands of A United View on Football. Ian was lucky enough recently to secure an interview with football journalist Alan Biggs – the BBC’s go-to guy for South Yorkshire football for many years. From my perspective, Biggs is comparable with the likes of Jimmy Armfield as a purveyor of a brand of warm spirited, genuinely interested reportage – a tradition that seems to be slowly in decline in the…
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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…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Team of the Season
Spanning our coverage to three divisions would always present problems when deciding upon this season’s best team. Just as the WBA, IBF and WBC versions of international boxing competed for eminence in the 1980s, Queen’s Park Rangers, Chesterfield and Brighton and Hove Albion possess equal claims to be the top canines thirty or so years on….and why restrict deliberations to actual Champions? Also mentioned by our pollsters were a Rochdale punching so far above their weight as to be dazzled, Championship Cities Norwich and Swansea, a Stevenage experiencing heady climes, and a benighted Plymouth Argyle squad for battling on to the end of the season…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Player of the Season
Our votes in this most storied of categories were split evenly and many of the usual characters cropped up. Grant Holt, so hearteningly wonderful in this year of Canary yellow, will be looking back on his days as a definitive journeyman and Singapore leaguer with disbelief and Scott Sinclair’s play off heroics confirmed an ability to link wideside flair with end product.Lower down the leagues, Craig Mackail-Smith was a whirling blond dervish for the Posh and Danny Whitaker and Craig Davies of Chesterfield had notable times of it, even if the latter should be marked down a little for the…
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