For the second of our posts exploring the theme of football ownership, we are pleased to welcome Jon Keen, a long-standing supporter of Reading Football Club and founding member of STAR (the Supporters’ Trust at Reading). Jon is also a regular contributor to Reading blog, The Tilehurst End. Here, Jon unpacks the issue while asking the inevitable question of how it came to all this? Jon can be …
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TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Championship Preview 2014-5
Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this season’s Championship - a competition where extortionate transfer fees, underqualified managers and frankly terrifying owners hold sway, where parachute payments warp the competition and everyone is indulging in the filthy scramble for Premier League …
TTU Awards 2013-14: Player of the Season
Despite not quite earning promotion to the Premier League, Derby were many ways the most impressive side TTU staffers witnessed this past season and none of their players stood out more than Craig Bryson, who had the season of his career so far, contributing 16 goals from midfield, including two hat-tricks – one of which was against Forest.
Honourable mentions for Danny Drinkwater, who’s been immaculate when we’ve …
TTU Awards 2013-14: Crimes Against Football
[A[n obvious choice in this category and one which our own Lanterne Rouge got the chance to expound upon on a recent edition of the We Are Going Up podcast followed on from the proposal by Greg Dyke and the rest of The FA Commission to introduce non-competitive B Teams and Strategic Loan Partnerships into the Football League. In doing so they sent out the message that the competiton exists …
Football and High Speed Rail 2: The Pros and Cons
One of the more emotive of political causes in recent times has been the plan to build a new high speed rail line between London, the North of England and the Midlands; the now notorious High Speed 2 project – often abbreviated to plain HS2.
With construction due to begin in 2017, the plan is for the line to extend north westwards from Euston station in the capital to …
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