Young boys in the park with jumpers for goalposts, or battering a ball against a garage door, dream of pulling on that jersey, of scoring the winner at Wembley, of lifting the World Cup. Of making a name for themselves. And yet some players make a name for themselves inadvertently, their footballing achievements and exploits overlooked or forgotten. Take Jean-Marc Bosman, for example, a relatively obscure Belgian footballer until his move from RFC Liege to French outfit Dunkerque was blocked and he decided to take on the football transfer rules. Now his name is inextricably associated with the landmark judgement…
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Tear soaked Balti Pies and little chuckling at Bradford
Following the recent untimely demise of Bradford City blog, Boy from Brazil, our latest guest post comes from Bantams fan Richard Beecham . Richard is a trainee journalist who was recently published by the Leeds Scribbler site – follow him on Twitter at @RichardBeecham.’Why don’t you just support Leeds?’ was the defining question of my childhood. Having grown up in Morley – an area of south Leeds known for its fanatical (and sometimes militant) allegiances to Leeds United, my support of Bradford City became all the more entrenched – which has resulted in a complete inability to express self-awareness and…
The Thursday Preview: Burton Albion Vs AFC Wimbledon
In his regular column for The Seventy Two, AFC Wimbledon striker Jack Midson tells us that the latest prank to achieve popularity among the players is to place items of fruit in each other’s kit bags. Given that in their heyday, the original club’s ‘Crazy Gang’ were prone to setting fire to Armani suits, smothering jock straps with Deep Heat and christening taxi doors with steel toe caps, this does seem a little mild. One can only imagine the scorn a Vinnie Jones or Wally Downes would show in the face of such timidity.Still, the bonds to the Plough lane mob are still…
Disarray at the Sixfields Crossroads
Firstly, we’d like to apologise to the author of this piece, Danny Brothers, for furthering his torment on Saturday. Not only did he have to sit through a ponging performance from Northampton, he had to write about it afterwards following an opportunistic request prior to the game from yours truly. Fair play for following up with this, Danny. We owe you one… I was asked, on Saturday, by my friends at The Two Unfortunates, if I could write a report on the current state of Northampton Town and the differences between the Gary Johnson era and the start of a…
The Monday Profile: Robert Hall
Fair play to West Ham. They may have poached one of the lower leagues’ most prolific marksmen, Sam Baldock, from MK Dons but it’s not all take, take, take - on the contrary, they seem to be vigorously pursuing a policy of loaning out their youngsters to the benefit of both other clubs and the players themselves. Currently plying their trade in League 2 are defender Callum McNaughton (AFC Wimbledon) and midfielder Ahmed Abdulla (under the maverick tutelage of former Hammer Paolo Di Canio at Swindon), while full-back Jordan Brown has spent a month at Aldershot. But their League 2…
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...
