Our first Great Teams post of 2013 features Lincoln City, one of several clubs we have featured in the series who now find themselves outside the Football League - see also our look back to famous Cambridge United and Stockport County sides of the past. Tom Clarke is a sports journalist with The Daily Mail and can be found on Twitter here, while some of his previous grumblings …
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Great Football League Teams 40: Reading 1985-6
Prior to 1985, Reading had spent only a handful of seasons in their history above the third tier of the English game. Since then, the impact of economic geography and demography, the emergence of John Madejski in classic sugar daddy mode and a cautious, realistic emphasis on slow, sustainable progress have allowed the Royals to establish themselves as a top ten Championship club (I’m not so naïve to …
Life Without Tony Pulis
After a somewhat disappointing 1-0 defeat at Carrow Road on Saturday, Stoke City’s slightly listless start to 2012-13 has continued with many neutral observers wondering whether the zenith of what the club can achieve - symbolised by last year’s creditable foray into European competition - is now behind them. Still, the mood at the Britannia today bears little relation to an occasion in the past when a certain Welshman was …
The (Other) Impossible Job: Graham Taylor at Wolves
We are delighted to welcome this morning the considerable writing talents of Rob Doolan, an alumnus of The Seventy Two and purveyor of the wonderful blog The 90s Football Party. Rob trades on twitter under the moniker @ChiefDelilah and his collection of pieces for our sister site - on topics as wide ranging as Chesterfield’s FA Cup run and Chris Waddle’s miserable spell at Burnley - can be enjoyed …
Great Football League Teams 35: Fulham, 1982-3
Every one of the previous thirty four entries in our Great Teams series has featured promoted teams and this would seem apt given the epithet ’lower leagues’ so often applied to the English divisions 2 to 4.
Today, however, we feature a Fulham side that finished the 1982-3 season outside the promotion places. A tempestuous and controversial 1-0 defeat at Derby (more of which later) left the Cottagers short of …
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