The serious lack of imagination shown by Football League chairmen continues to fuel the managerial carousel. Almost three years ago, we were bemused by Paul Hart’s arrival at Crystal Palace while the likes of Alan Irvine, Brian Laws and Darren Ferguson played musical chairs. Two and a half years on and it’s Dougie Freedman, Mick McCarthy and Dave Jones making sideways moves, as well as Laws again. The …
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Stepping up: negotiating a multi-division jump
Wandering around Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok in a jet-lagged haze last November, I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of a club shop selling merchandise for an English football team. Nothing too surprising in that, you might think - after all, the Premier League is hugely popular in South East Asia, and we had been welcomed to Thailand by Singha Beer in association with Chelsea and on …
TTU’s Goodreads: 26-10-12
Having been accustomed to tweeting links to some of our favourite articles published elsewhere in recent months, we have decided today to formalise the process by instituting a new series at The Two Unfortunates. This will point the way to three of the pieces we have enjoyed most over a 7 day period and these could be blog posts, articles in established media, podcasts or tumblr-style images. We hope …
Book Review: The Man with Maradona’s Shirt
The Man with Maradona’s Shirt by Steve Hodge
Published by Orion
2012, £9.99
ISBN: 9781409117353
Steve Hodge won eight England Under-21 caps, 24 full England caps and the final Division One Championship with Leeds United in 1992. He enjoyed success with Nottingham Forest, his hometown team, to a level that some of the biggest clubs in England would happily take today.
So it’s unfortunate that he seems somewhat preoccupied about …
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