All posts tagged Leicester

2012-13: An Elegy

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Having seen our original brief cast asunder when one of our teams was promoted to the Premier League a year ago, equilibrium has been restored and it’s with a mood of keen anticipation that we look forward to blogging about the Football League and other topics in the new season. For now, however, we have decided to sign off for a month’s rest - but not before Steve Wright

TTU Awards 2012-13: Loan of the Season

Inevitably, Watford Football Club loom large in this first category of the TTU Awards. We’ve followed the Hornets’ link up to Granada and Udinese closely over the past nine months. First, William Abbs drew our attention to the project back in July; then, Matt Rowson helpfully introduced us to the dramatis personae, before Michael Moruzzi provided a spirited defence as the naysayers gathered and our own co-founder Lloyd

Once More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion

Tonight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects:

Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you’ve mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it’s quite possible mathematically but will take a …

Are You Experienced? Old Pros in the Championship

The January transfer deadline is less than a week away now and message boards everywhere are heralding a cry for more experience to be added to Championship squads. The judicious addition of a central defender with a Premier League background or a proven striker could be enough to convert pretenders into serious challengers. An extra injection of class could elevate a team above the hoi polloi scrambling to avoid the …

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 …