With the pre-season almost upon us, and a day bereft of World Cup action, our two ex-League 1 supporters took some time to reflect on the previous campaign.Stanley: On a personal note, the season started sluggishly, but ended in celebration, victory in the play-off final providing a just reward for a hard-working and ruthless Millwall team. But what of the other 23 clubs? Despite opening with a catastrophe, Norwich City finished the season as deserved Champions, while Leeds United finally made the upward move they have craved since taking up residence in the third tier. Others who left their imprint…
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The Monday Profile: Ľubomír Michalík
From hereon in for a few weeks, the Monday Profile will be casting its eye over performers and, given that some 28s and 29s are yet to be whittled down, likely performers in the coming Azanian bunfight. The English speaking squads of the US, New Zealand and Australia constitute the most likely places of refuge for Championship personnel, but others will be dotted about the veld and having faced up to the grim fact that Leeds United are unfortunately back among us, we turn our attentions to towering Slovak centre back Ľubomír Michalík.He may not start, and he is on…
Coming Up
Much has been written on these pages about the struggles of Championship basement boys like Peterborough, Plymouth and Crystal Palace, but what about those vying to replace them in English football’s second tier? With eight games to go in League One, Norwich look as good as promoted. They have an eleven-point cushion on the teams below them and have won five of their last six, the only blemish being a draw away at fourth-placed Swindon Town. Assuming the Canaries are certs for promotion, let us turn the spotlight on to the other teams in the running:Leeds UnitedLeeds held an eight-point…
The Thursday Preview: Plymouth Argyle Vs West Bromwich Albion
“Are Leeds ever involved in a dull game”, Clive Tyldesley gushed rhetorically during the first half of the Whites’ televised Cup replay against Spurs last night. ITV, who have aired all but one of Leeds’ five Cup ties this season, have been fawning it up for a while now, telling the nation how every neutral in the land wants to see the Yorkshiremen ‘back where they belong’. Surely this is utter tosh, I tell myself, but this rancid sentiment seems to be gaining credence: this morning the Telegraph were equally effusive in their commentary, claiming that Leeds’ heroism had “sent…
DVD review: The Damned United
The Damned UnitedDirected by Tom HooperColumbia Pictures, 2009, £19.99David Peace’s work has been a modern day staple of visual adaptations for the past year or so and the author is one of those writers whose books can often be found on the shelves of those who, as The Daily Telegraph might term it, “don’t read books”, an explorer of yoof issues to cast alongside Irvine Welsh, Howard Marks and Nicholas Blincoe. In truth, and without wishing to denigrate those authors, Peace’s ambition extends beyond this. His GB84 in particular is an exercise in wilful complexity, and the earlier Red Riding…
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...
