For our eleventh Great Team we look westwards to the Yeovil of 2006-7, courtesy of Glovers blogger Ben Barrett. Yeovil have perhaps hit something of a crossroads of late, but Ben looks back to a time when Town’s rise seemed to be unceasing. Some clubs are blessed with great title-winning teams, some have players worth tens of millions and some are just a brilliant combination of hard working youngsters blended in with some experienced old heads. It’s the latter that applies to Yeovil Town’s 2006-7 Nearly Men. It is also worth remembering that this Great Team belonged to a club…
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Great Football League Teams 10: Sunderland, 1998-9
With the echo of repeated ker-chings ringing in their ears, Sunderland fans may care to pause for thought and recall their current helmsman in times uncomplicated by the tang of filthy lucre. For the Niall Quinn of the 1998-9 season was the cranium of a team with true backbone; the holder of a points record of 105 that’s still the second best ever. Quinn was partnered by Kevin Phillips of course – one of those once in a lifetime buys that repays speculation time and again. Already impressive at Watford, the ex-Baldock Town full back fired in 23 goals as…
Canaries’ wings clipped in the cup once more
For our second guest post of the day, we welcome William Abbs, whose site Saha from the Madding Crowd provides a well of thoughtful, elegant writing on a range of topics. William is working towards a PhD and recently contributed to the already influential book, Pay as You Play. Here, he muses on Norwich City’s failure to get to grips with the world’s oldest competition.The joke about the teabag that stays in the cup longer than some perennially unlucky football team is about as old as the FA Cup itself. In Norwich City’s case, though, the punchline is starting to…
Great Football League Teams 9: Darlington, 1990-1
Number 9 in our Great Teams series features a club that are sadly no longer among us. Darlington are currently bedding down in midtable in the Blue Square Premier - a situation that will provide much needed stability after the emotional tempests of 2009-10. Duncan Fletcher, head honcho of the superbly crafted Cruel Geography and a man whose loyalties are split between Darlo and Toronto FC, has penned this ode to a classic line up of yesteryear. Since automatic promotion/relegation from the conference was introduced back in 1987, there are only three teams that have come up and gone on to immediately win Division 4/Division…
Great Football League Teams 8: Doncaster Rovers, 2003-4
For the eighth in our series of great football league teams down the years, we turn to the Doncaster Rovers of 2003-4, courtesy of Glen Wilson, curator of one of the leading club sites on the world wide web, Viva Rovers. Donny are currently enjoying a protracted glory spell in historical terms and Glen looks back to the early days of the revival. Half a decade. That’s how long it took Doncaster Rovers to rebuild and return having been dumped into non-league by football’s most notorious arsonist. Five long years which featured ‘derbies’ with Leek Town, piped-in crowd noise at…
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Lloyd: An enjoyable, snappy piece of writing Will.
Going through Worcester...
Frank Heaven: LR - yes, that's right, with Albion and Wolves being in Staffordshire....
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Eoghan Darbyshire: Quality player, could see he was head and shoulders above the rest of...
