Next up in our Great Team series and for the first time penned in contemplation of the prospect that Muammar al-Gaddafi may cease to run Libyan affairs, we welcome Danny Brothers, the man behind Northampton Town blog, A Load of Cobblers. Danny reflects on a season capped by play off joy. In one single moment my football watching career was changed forever. As John Frain curled a ball around the Swansea City wall under the shadows of the twin towers and the net bulged in front of 32,000 claret laden fans, my Dad lifted me into the air and a…
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Great Football League Teams 15: Bradford City, 1998-9
In his first dedicated piece for the two unfortunates, Michael Wood of the beautifully designed and written Bradford City website Boy From Brazil, treats us to a snapshot of his Bantams-supporting life over the past fifteen years. If you’re anything like me, then you’ll have wondered from time-to-time how exactly City fans feel as their club continues to reap punishment from those two Premier League seasons. Here’s a little window. The Crumbling Terrace: Preamble One April 2009 There we are, on the crumbling terrace of Morecambe’s old Christie Park ground, watching Bradford City and wondering how it all came to…
Great Football League Teams 14: Grimsby Town, 1997-8
We are especially thrilled to invite Pete Green for our fourteenth nostalgiafest. His Cod Almighty is the sine qua non of club websites, rightly recognised as such by When Saturday Comes, and the automatic first stop for anything to do with the Mariners, temporarily in exile in the Blue Square Premier. Here, Pete looks back to the second coming of Alan Buckley. Staying up, staying up, staying up. In reality today Grimsby Town are a non-League football club. In our dreams, in our history, we’re in the Championship. Town have spent more seasons in the second flight than any other…
Great Football League Teams 13: Millwall, 1987-8
Some clubs are more keenly aware of their history than others. Despite the unkind but largely accurate chants sometimes aimed at us by opposing fans, Millwall is one of them. Take the annual Dockers’ Day celebration. Each season, a match is dedicated to the memory of the flat-capped stevedores and warehousemen from among whom much of the club’s support was drawn in the middle 20th century. A number of ex-dock workers are given the VIP treatment for the day and a team from the distant past is invited to provide autographs for fans, before the whole motley crew is paraded…
Great Football League Teams 12: Sheffield United, 1981-2
A warm welcome to Ian Rands, ardent Blade and proprietor of the burgeoning blog, A United View on Football. In recent weeks, Ian has identified the best players in the Championship and compared and contrasted those two Kyles: Walker and Naughton. Here, he reverts the clock back thirty years or so. 1979 saw Sheffield United relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time, just four years after missing out on European football by a point. With the best will in the world no one believed that a drop to the Fourth Division would shortly follow. Saturday 2nd…
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