The success of Starbucks, Costa and Caffè Nero in recent years underlines perhaps more than anything Britain’s ignorance as a coffee appreciative nation and football fans forced to once again imbibe another watery latte at staging posts along our motorways and railways lines will count this as yet another among a host of less than satisfying aspects of the away trip. Service station architecture may have been eulogised in some quarters but Tebay services’ scooping of an Egon Ronay’s British Academy of Gastronomes’ Grand Prix award in 2009 is the exception rather than a rule. Herded like cattle into these box like…
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The Monday Profile: Jordan Rhodes
You’ve got to feel for Andy Rhodes. Most fathers, having just witnessed their son score four times to single-handedly salvage a point from a pulsating and fiercely contested derby match in front of more than 28,000 spectators, would be bursting at the seams with pride. But not Andy, who, as Sheffield Wednesday’s goalkeeping coach, had just seen his charge Stephen Bywater beaten four times, his own flesh and blood Jordan wresting two points from the Owls’ grasp seven minutes into stoppage time. In Saturday’s extraordinary game at Hillsborough, visitors Huddersfield made a devastating start, Rhodes fils crashing home two bullet…
The Thursday Preview: Peterborough Vs Ipswich
With the top two from last year’s League 1 table being transposed atop the Championship, it is perhaps understandable that much attention has been focused on the South Coast mutual dislike society, Southampton and Brighton. However, the third of the promoted clubs have also made an encouraging start to their campaign. Wednesday’s creditable draw at the Den might not have been the best team performance so far this season, but both Peterborough’s strengths and frailties were there to assess. The departure of last season’s leading scorer Craig Mackail-Smith to the aformentioned Seagulls has left many wondering where this hitherto freescoring…
UEFA European Under-21 Championship: A Football League Perspective
Some readers may have wondered where the two drawings that appear on each page of this site come from. The answer? Ben Piggott, whose fruits of graphite can also be seen at Daily Pen. Here, Ben uses his enthusiasm for tournament football to give us a summary of how all those Football Leaguers (or should that be Championshippers?) involved in this summer’s European Under-21 Championship have been getting on.To continue the growing trend for pluralising footballers … you can keep your Christian Eriksons, your Xherdan Shaqiris and your Juan Matas… because nae team in the Championship can afford them. Instead, England’s second division (lower…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Worst Pitch
There’s a whole other article that could be be written on the dynamic between Stockport County and Sale Sharks, but for the purposes of this award we’ll focus on the pitch at Edgeley Park. Plenty of football clubs share grounds with those amateur gents of the oval ball, Reading and Wycombe to name but two, and at points those playing surfaces may suffer from the sheer amount of game time demanded of them.But up in Greater Manchester, where the Hatters are mere tenants to the holding company which owns Sale Sharks, Cheshire Sports, it’s a different story. For several years now, Stockport supporters have had to spend hard earned money to watch their…
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