After nearly a decade since the clubs’ last meeting, the press have been doing their best this week to stoke up the ghosts of rivalries past ahead of tonight’s Capital One Cup quarter final between Leeds and Chelsea at Elland Road. Frank Lampard admits that he felt the need to inform his foreign team-mates of the historical enmity in case they find themselves upended and bewildered on the northern turf, wailed at by twenty thousand Yorkshiremen; while that cuddly soul Neil Warnock has reminded us of past disputes, albeit of a personal kind. My Dad once spent a few days…
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Is this Tranmere Rovers Vintage the Real Deal?
The general disbelief at Tranmere Rovers’ spectacular beginning to 2012-13 has all the same brought with it a highly pleasurable set of sensations – with most onlookers happily surprised at the Wirral’s finest’s unbeaten start and clear lead in League 1. Even the manager himself has seemed perplexed in front of the microphone – for while clearly confident in his players’ abilities, he is aware as anyone of the limitations placed on a club of Tranmere’s size by budget and resources. Those doubts persist. Ronnie Moore himself, in an interview with our sister site The Seventy Two, during his last spell with…
Book Review: I am the Secret Footballer
I am the Secret Footballer Published by Guardian Books July 2012, £7.99 ISBN: 9780852653081 The Guardian’s decision to gather together their Secret Footballer columns into this new book appears to have been handsomely vindicated on first glance; sitting as the volume does atop their online bookshop chart as well as prominently on the shelves of Britain’s retailers. Serialization never hurt Charles Dickens’ chances and it will be comforting to the paper’s proprietors that opportunities remain to charge for content in this increasingly open access world. Few who read this blog will be unfamiliar with the columns; their having become something of…
Great Football League Teams 38: Liverpool 1893-4
Liverpool’s first promotion into the top flight of English football came but a year after the founding of the club in 1892 and it’s as well to remind ourselves of the circumstances preceding this first gathering of silverware. For the Liver Birds were actually founded as a splinter group from Everton following an internecine dispute that saw patron, brewer and Tory councillor (ouch) John Houlding and his fellow freemason John McKenna break away. Crucially, Houlding retained control over the Anfield Road ground, the 1890-1 League champions refusing to come to terms with the owner as far as rent payments were…
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