When we previewed the new League Two season back in July, the Shrimps of Morecambe FC were about as popular with our pundits and the bookies as they would be chez Roy Keane.
The Lancashire club had been open and honest with the playing personnel throughout the summer and with gates in 2012-13 averaging out at a meagre 1,954, the likes of Will Haining, Gary McDonald and Lewis Alessandra …
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters by Daniel Gray
Published by Bloomsbury
2013, £12.99
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At times reading Daniel Gray’s Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is, despite the ugliness of the title, a joyous experience; an author who clearly enjoys using language talking with warmth and wit about football, people and social history. It’s the literary equivalent of an exhibition of Stuart Roy Clarke photos, and in celebrating community spirit and social …
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 …
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 …
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…
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Steve: C.f. Phil Neville on MOTD2 talking about Rosicky's audacious blind pas...
Steve: Excellent article....
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
