The stats relating to the duration of managerial spells are, as you might expect, damning. This season, the average length of employment across the Premier and Football League’s 92 clubs is 1.64 seasons. In the Championship the mean is even worse, standing at 0.82 seasons. Between the Premier League and League Two, 47 of the 92 managers currently in position are yet to complete a full season with their …
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TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
In the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who’s who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that they’ll each do well, but suggest that they’ll have plenty of competition, not least from Southend and York.
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AFC Wimbledon
It’s fair to say that the AFCW squad has more or …
Decline and Fall?: Football and “Failing” Towns
Last month The Economist hit the headlines for publishing a distinctly unflattering portrait of several British towns including Wolverhampton, Hull, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. As the stats - for unemployment in particular, but also educational standards, welfare cuts and numbers of empty retail units - made clear, the towns and cities in question are undeniably enduring tough times. But the emotive choice of title for the article (“Rustbelt …
TTU Go Predicting: Best Loanee
Alright. Whose idea was it to kick off our thematic predictions with a loan category…? Do people realise that it’s still July?
In defence, although the days are but early, loans have become such a key aspect in every club’s year-on-year recruitment that transactions are happening much earlier than they might have previously. Of course, a great number of deals are yet to see light of day but …
Jertzee: One slight inconsistency that could seriously bit the club in the bum....
Michael Green: Forest are in a cyccle of appointing the wrong manager, they seem to h...
Dee West: Some ex Charterhouse School boys ( a very posh football playing publi...
