Twenty one months ago, we relaunched a redesign of our site with a post from John McGee on the Elite Player Performance Plan - still to this day one of most talked about and read articles. However, coverage of the EPPP has been greatly diminished in recent months and a degree of normality has settled in. Here, Dan Yeo reminds us of some of the implications of what remains …
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The Two Unfortunates/Cult Zeros Crossword Winner
We are very pleased to announce the winner of The Two Unfortunates/Cult Zeros Cryptic Crossword competition which we launched in April. Although it took our co-founder Lanterne Rouge four months to complete a mere quarter of the puzzle and fellow blogger Lloyd completely unable to answer a single clue, we are pleased that Jamie Upton was far more fleeted in the brain matter stakes – and Jamie is our …
2012-13: An Elegy
Having seen our original brief cast asunder when one of our teams was promoted to the Premier League a year ago, equilibrium has been restored and it’s with a mood of keen anticipation that we look forward to blogging about the Football League and other topics in the new season. For now, however, we have decided to sign off for a month’s rest - but not before Steve Wright…
A Football League SWOT Analysis: The Threats
The stethoscope we have applied to the Football League over the past week has revealed a not altogether satisfactory heartbeat and the fact that the weaknesses section of our study has been easily the most read does indicate that there is concern for the competition’s health among supporters.
Which leads us to the threats section, the most portentous of the four categories, and one which can often appear indistinguishable …
A Football League SWOT Analysis: The Weaknesses
Of course by its very definition the Football League is weak – comparatively. While it’s true that West Ham and Southampton skilfully negotiated the step up to the Premier League this past year, both enjoyed wage structures and transfer budgets way beyond the scope of second tier clubs.
Yesterday’s opening post on this four day SWOT analysis salvo perhaps painted too rosy a picture of the League’s attributes. Today’s …
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