For our Monday Profile this week, we welcome back Ian Rands, proprietor of A United View on Football, a website that has really come into its own in recent months following a series of fascinating interviews with a host of Sheffield United greats from the past. Ian, who can be followed on twitter here, turns his attention to a player whom we have been critical of in the past, but who has flourished in a Blades shirt this year. If there is one player making the headlines for Sheffield United this season it is 32 goal striker Ched Evans, but for…
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Trading Places: Time to Reform the Football League’s Loan System?
To look closely at the associated regulations is to acknowledge the Football League’s existing loan system as nothing less than a free for all. ‘Temporary loan transfer’ is the umbrella heading which comprises the following three types of move permissible under the current system: • ‘Standard Loans’ (half or full season in length and arranged during the two transfer windows); • ‘Emergency Loans’ (28-93 days in length and arranged both within the two transfer windows and during fixed periods outside these dates); • ‘Youth Loans’ (identical to ‘Emergency Loans’ but applies to scholars or new professionals on a work experience-type…
Mock, mock and Phil Brown’s two smoking barrels
Schadenfreude may not be edifying, but it certainly seems to be a particular preoccupation of the football fan. Time was when goading your local rivals was confined to a selection of uncomplimentary chants and maybe the odd rude gesture. Not any more - the bar appears to have been raised considerably.Take Man City, for example. The now-infamous billboard poster unveiled after they’d pinched Carlos Tevez from city rivals United, featuring a picture of the Argentinian with the slogan “Welcome to Manchester”, was a club-sanctioned bit of triumphalism calculated to rile those in red. And riled they were, Sir Alex Ferguson…
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…
The Thursday Preview: Manchester City Vs Reading
Tony Book, The Kippax, King of the Kippax, Mike and Nicky Summerbee, Claremont Road, The Clarence, the Platt Lane End, Paul Lake’s Knee, those bananas, “and all the runs that Kinky makes are blinding”, 2-0 down with 5 minutes to go against Gillingham at Wembley, “Manchester…la la la”, Blue moon, red and black stripes, Górnik Zabrze, FIVE-ONE, the repartee of Peter Swales, Denis Law’s Old Trafford goal, Dennis Tueart’s overhead, Steve Daley, Bert Trautmann’s neck, “after all, you’re my Alan Ball”.They are gone now and in their place is a counterfeit Manchester City; ripped asunder from its Moss Side roots…
The silent majority speak: Their anti-Brent bias?
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Scott: RE: Dave (the deluded Dingle)
If Barnsley finish in the top 3, I will...
