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…
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Hopeless Football League Teams 4: Sheffield Wednesday, 2002-3
Given the uncanny coincidence that artworks with the same title scooped the NME Album of the Year and Palme d’Or Awards in 2003, it’s appropriate that one of the blogosphere’s finest polymath’s should contribute the fourth in our fledgling series of hopeless teams. For Chris Ledger is none other than the brains behind Obscure Music and Football, a site with a sometimes unhealthy predilection for Salad (the band that is), the musical career of one Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne and the witticisms of everyone’s favourite xenophobe, Steve Claridge. Here, Chris looks back on one particularly rotten Sheffield Wednesday shower and Lord knows he had…
The Thursday Preview: Yeovil Vs Exeter
This weekend’s fixtures look like a pretty sedate set on the face of it. Leeds’ terrestrially televised trip across the shires to meet Burnley and what may be the most pathetic grudge in history, Saints versus Seagulls, are worth keeping on the radar perhaps, but otherwise I can’t help but be drawn down the leagues to the two derbies west of Bristol. Plymouth’s trip to Torquay, which the Gulls go into as comfortable favourites for the first time in years, has sold out and is likely to provide its fair share of spark, but our Preview this week rolls up…
The Monday Profile: Harry Maguire
Today’s profile is penned by Ian Rands. Ian a is a regular visitor to our pages; most recently penning a review of Alan Biggs’ new autobiography. Here he looks at perhaps the brightest of Sheffield United’s crop of teenage sensations:It has been a whirlwind last 6 months for 18 year old Sheffield United defender Harry Maguire. He first came to prominence, as far as a majority of Blades fans were concerned, in April of this year. A key performer in the Blades’ run to the FA Youth Cup final, he made his league debut as a second half substitute against…
EPPP exposes Football League impotence
Anyone who takes even a passing interest in the Football League, let alone obsessives like us, will be aware of Thursday’s vote to approve the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP). For those of you who remain unaware aware of its details, the EPPP can be summarized either, by its cheerleaders, as a blueprint for the improvement of the England national XI or, by its detractors, as an attempt by the Premier League to rig the market for youth players in its favour. While this blogger was otherwise engaged, esteemed commentators elsewhere have explored the pros and cons of the plan…
P Squires: Interesting read, but '...which by train is comfortably further from L...
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....
Lanterne Rouge: Great piece Will. Of course country boundary changes do tend to confus...
Eoghan Darbyshire: Quality player, could see he was head and shoulders above the rest of...
