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…
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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…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Best Fans
By a nose, Scunthorpe United take this year’s Best Fans Award. Last season, the gong went to Pride Park for Derby’s 29,207 average gate, “a freak of nature” according to my co-editor Lanterne Rouge. The Iron may not have enjoyed the same kind of footfall, but their Keep Scunthorpe Standing Campaign, championed by the Football Supporters’ Federation, attracted interest and support from across the media, with noteworthy articles coming from the Independent and twohundredpercent. Even this humble site got in on the act. For those who are unacquainted, legislation under the Football Spectators Act 1989 states that all those teams…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Bargain Buy of the Season
Given that this year’s awards involved a six man panel nominating across three leagues of twenty four, there was bound to be divergence in opinion but in the Bargain Buy category we also encountered a further dilemma: what, ‘in these challenging times’, constitutes a good deal? He spent a little time at Brighton during 2009-10 but the gratis signing of Iñigo Calderón, unattached after a long association with Alavés, went a long way to ensuring that the Seasiders hit the ground running. For me personally, a free transfer speaks ‘bargain’; even Ashley Barnes who banged in 20 goals for the same outfit after signing…







