Yesterday’s entertaining share of Midlands spoils at the Walkers will have been seen only by an anti-Murdoch few, pitted as it was against the Manchester Ship Canal derby. That’s a pity. Leicester and Coventry served up a textbook example of what’s good about this league. The Foxes purred in the first period, adroit passing in and around the penalty box handing them a 2-0 lead in no way devalued by a goal that should not have stood; after some tea cup jettisoning from Chris Coleman, Coventry drew on a wellspring of enterprise to get back into the game and general…
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Window of opportunity or pane in the ass? Part 2
We’ve covered the second tier’s January transfer window winners - now for the losers…Nottingham ForestThe Tricky Trees may be routinely sweeping aside the opposition with the sort of free-flowing football any neutral fan would be happy to pay good money to see (or at least they were until Saturday’s defeat by - of all teams - Derby), but there’s a potential fly in the ointment: the thinness of their squad, particularly by comparison with their main promotion rivals ourselves and West Brom. Should the second half of the season bring injuries and loss of form, as it surely must, they…
A Tale of Two Strikers
While most people will be keeping an eye on the QPR of the north, some of us are wondering whether two of the Championship’s in-form strikers can extend their spicy scoring streak over the next three days. Peter Whittingham, Michael Chopra and Matty Fryatt all started the season like it was their last and still figure at the head of the charts, but a quick look at results and scorers from recent weeks suggests that there’s some real competition for the Pichichi.Does Billy Sharp have something against Darren Ambrose? The latter went on a well-documented six game scoring run for…
Slow Decline at Coventry
There was always an air of unreality surrounding Coventry City’s three decade stint in the top flight. The Sky Blues rarely troubled the top half of the table and indeed, appeared to be attending multiple auditions for a remake of the film Flatliners. Their most dramatic escape of all came with a 4-1 victory over already crowned Champions Everton in 1985, long after other fixtures had been played and a situation that would never be allowed to occur nowadays. Only with FA Cup glory and John Sillett’s dancing in 1987 did the Midlands club rise above the humdrum, although they…
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