We kick off February with a series of posts on the interrelationship between football and gender. Tomorrow, TTU regular Susan Gardiner will analyse the progress of women’s involvement in the sport while Glen Wilson will take the temperature of women’s football itself. We shall also hear from Southampton fan Nicky Borowiec while blog co-founder Rob Langham will assess concepts of masculinity in the game, hopefully without resort to a …
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A Short History of Football and Music: 2000 to the Present
With football cock of the walk as the new millennium dawned, the extended love-in with music and other elements of popular culture continued to drag on through the early years of the decade. Soccer AM remained as popular as ever, Doves’ anthem Pounding soundtracked Saturday lunchtime’s On The Ball presented by Gabby Yorath, Sham 69 enlisted Blur guitarist Graham Coxon on a reworking of one of their most famous …
TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Championship Preview 2014-5
Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this season’s Championship - a competition where extortionate transfer fees, underqualified managers and frankly terrifying owners hold sway, where parachute payments warp the competition and everyone is indulging in the filthy scramble for Premier League …
5 Football League Players Coming to a World Cup Television Near You
In the run up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, we ran a series of profiles of Football League players who had been named in their countries’ squads. Hence, the likes of Middlesbrough’s Rhys Williams (Australia), Ipswich’s Tommy Smith (New Zealand) and West Brom’s Gonzalo Jara (Chile) featured in our coverage.
Four years on and the list of players with current Football League connections is curiously longer. …
Survival Instincts? Fulham and Crystal Palace Living on the Edge
Two consecutive Saturday afternoons; two London clubs battling to avoid relegation; two games against a Newcastle side out of form and with little to play for. Ideal circumstances in which to assess the current predicaments of Fulham and Crystal Palace - and their chances of Premier League survival.
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He may no longer be Fulham’s owner but, as someone obsessed with car crashes, there’s a …
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