In a curious quirk of fate, last Friday night’s match between Bury and Rochdale not only involved two clubs located little more than five miles apart, but also two men who’ve spent much of the last fifteen years considerably closer to one another than that. In the visitors’ camp: Keith Hill. In the home dugout: David Flitcroft, who played with Hill at Spotland before working as his assistant …
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Keith Hill and the ‘never go back’ maxim
These quiet mid-January weeks used to be devoted to anticipation while we waited between rounds 3 and 4 of the FA Cup and if many will have you believe that matters Premier League and transfer window are the only ones worth thinking about as Burns Night approaches, quite a few of us still hark back to the old days. Not least Rochdale, who along with thoughts of the world’s …
We Are Going Up! Interview: Podcasting the Football League
Having made a number of appearances on podcasts in recent years including Two Footed Tackle and The Tilehurst End, our founder writers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge are perhaps inclined to go in the corner and hide, such are the demands of stationing oneself behind the microphone. Hence, we are in admiration of anyone who has stuck at it, let alone done it really well indeed.
The recent FSF …
Book Review: York City: Fighting Back
York City: Fighting Back by Dave Flett
Published by Amberley Publishing
2013, £14.99
ISBN: 978-1445614083
Life as a York City fan has largely been a predictable state of affairs down the years. Turn up, watch them be moderate to crap for 90 minutes, go home – simple. The glories are fleeting and to be clung to for far longer than is probably healthy and for the most part of …
Alcohol and Football: It’s Time To Let Football Fans Enjoy A Drink
So many aspects of modern football are nonsensical. The vast web of ethical and logistical issues surrounding the inherently flawed decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar is a topical example. So, too, the negligence of so many directors in steering their clubs headlong into financial catastrophe, despite fully understanding the risk they take in offering players wages that far exceed their clubs’ ability to generate revenue. …
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Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
