I was surprised to learn that the fabled 92 Club – the movement that recognises those hardy souls who have attended a match at all the Football League grounds - dates back only to the late seventies – ironically perhaps in that the accession of Wimbledon and Wigan Athletic to the competition will have immediately thrown things into confusion. The original proposal was for this feat to be recognised by the award of a tie – with League administrator Alan Hardaker backing the plan as well as a range of the red tops. Despite the new arrivals, it was a…
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Great Football League Teams 41: Lincoln City 2002-3
Our first Great Teams post of 2013 features Lincoln City, one of several clubs we have featured in the series who now find themselves outside the Football League - see also our look back to famous Cambridge United and Stockport County sides of the past. Tom Clarke is a sports journalist with The Daily Mail and can be found on Twitter here, while some of his previous grumblings about Lincoln City can be found at the now sadly discontinued Pope and Swift, an excellent pan-sports blog that is begging to be succeeded. Here, Tom remembers the happier times of the 2002-03 season. … “You’re…
Gareth Ainsworth as Warrior-King
Lying deep in the recesses of the English mind and our claggy sod, a battle-hungry liege has long waited to be discovered. After weeks of speculation and careful assessment, statistics have shown that the gaunt, scarred frame is no less than a lost English king. The car park from which he emerged, however, is not in Leicester but at the end of an industrial estate by Adams Park, and the king is not from York, but Lancashire. Behold, Gareth Ainsworth, emerging from his Audi! (Cue parping fanfare). Gaz is second only to David Beckham in my eyes as a footballer…
The Under-20 World Cup: A Football League Perspective
In June, Ben Piggott ran the rule over the fortunes of Football League players in that month’s European Under-21 Championship, with Aron Gunnarsson and Mikkel Andersen in particular enjoying less than fruitful campaigns. Now, the man behind the illustrations that adorn this website turns his attention to the recent Under-20 World Cup, a tournanment that has been covered expertly by Two Hundred Percent and ended up with a somewhat Lusophone finale: The traditional Hispano-Iberian hegemony was reasserted at this year’s World Youth Cup, with Mexico, Brazil and Portugal consigning Ghana’s 2009 triumph to the history books by parking up in three…
The Monday Profile: Ashley Grimes
Back in October last year, a piece for the Guardian Football League blog by David Bevan of the Seventy Two diagnosed a chronic lack of goals as the reason for Lincoln’s limp start to the season. Three months after the arrival at Sincil Bank of perennial Millwall reserve Ashley Grimes, an update is required. Some 17 goals in 25 league appearances since January - including a couple of TV-friendly efforts - have propelled City upward into mid-table obscurity, and left the supporters of Grimes’ ultimate employer wondering if another young talent has been kicked out the Den prematurely.The 24-year-old (apparently…
Keith: Even if the 92 clubs never changed, completing the challenge using mat...
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