Flash back to the 31st of January 2010 – shot shy Carlisle United are desperate for an experienced front man to come in to help out the earnest pairing of Scott Dobie and Joe Anyinsah, the then still errant, gangling giraffe Gary Madine and the bunged-up blunderbuss Richard Offiong. By mid-morning the signing of a striker had been announced, in the form of 18 year old Stoke City man Ben Marshall, a youngster who’d had earlier spells with a pair of League Two Towns – Northampton and Cheltenham. To say the Cumbrian faithful were unimpressed would be to understate it….
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Nigel Pearson: From East Riding to East Midlands?
Phil Ascough has contributed a number of excellent pieces to The Two Unfortunates over recent months. Here, the author of Kissing the Badge attempts to get his head round the worst kept secret in this week’s football league:I guess we’ll find out some time today – possibly by the time you read this – whether Hull City need a new manager.Nigel Pearson is reported to be interested in talking to Leicester City. He seems to have the idea that a few Hull fans don’t like his style and he’s probably right. There were a few grunts and groans when the…
Early Signs of Progress at Leicester
Following his contribution to our recent season preview, Coventry blogger Neil Allison has left his excellent Sky Blues Blog with the childminder once again. This time, Neil files an early progress report on much-fancied Leicester, who met Cov in 2011-12′s first Saturday lunchtime affair. Leicester City are a club with only one thing on their mind. And By Sven, it shows. If ever an opening game displayed the differing expectations of two teams and its fans, Saturday’s season opener against local rivals Coventry City demonstrated this in stereo. There was flagrant excitement generated by their summer spending spree – and…
The Seventy Two Unfortunates Football League Preview: the Archives
We continue our Five Days of Football League build-up with a focus on the archival section of our 108-page overview of the coming season. In putting together the Preview, we wanted to touch upon the writing that we feel best represents our sites by giving selected pieces a second airing.So, kicking the section off on page 66 is Iain Macintosh’s ode to Southend, which first appeared on The Seventy Two back in March this year. One of two personal contributions from myself follows this, a rundown of ten matches across the last 10 seasons for Plymouth Argyle. As lengthy as…
Television Review: How to Buy a Football Club
Dispatches: How to Buy a Football ClubJuly 8, 2011 (Channel 4, 8pm)Tonight’s Channel 4 episode of Dispatches promised much but ultimately proved to be a disappointment, subtitled as it could have been, “How to pretend to buy a football club from some dodgy geezers in a theme pub”.That’s not to say the whole concept of club ownership in England isn’t rotten to its core of course, but the overwhelming feeling as Bryan Robson abused his role as Global Ambassador for Manchester United was one of weary sadness rather than outrage.I for one didn’t really take seriously the claims of shady…
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