For the second of our posts exploring the theme of football ownership, we are pleased to welcome Jon Keen, a long-standing supporter of Reading Football Club and founding member of STAR (the Supporters’ Trust at Reading). Jon is also a regular contributor to Reading blog, The Tilehurst End. Here, Jon unpacks the issue while asking the inevitable question of how it came to all this? Jon can be …
All posts tagged Manchester United
TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Premier League Preview 2014-5
Our divisional previews of a year ago were so well received that we decided to go one better and offer a full set for 2014-5 even if bloggers enjoy the luxury of not being obliged to cover irrelevances such as the Community Shield. TTU staffer Ben Woolhead has a little extra time on his hands now after the masterful Newcastle United blog Black & White & Read All Over…
Book Review: Falling for Football
Falling for Football edited by Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald
Published by Ockley Books
2014, £11.99
Falling for Football is a highly significant book and not just because of the way it expertly conjures up why we fall for the sport, its tribulations and tensions, its vitality and emotion, in the first place. It is also noteworthy for the service editors Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald have performed …
Book Review: Immortal
Immortal: The Approved Biography of George Best by Duncan Hamilton
Published by Century
2013, £20
By the time George Best died in 2005, aged 59, quite a few people claimed to have run out of patience. Best had recently had a liver transplant, and there was talk that he’d jumped the queue because of who he was, and that he had no intention of giving up drinking anyway. As …
Paul Lambert, ITV and the Magic of the FA Cup
What football reporting needs most is a narrative; most of the time at least. For there to be a story, there has to be an issue, which can be resolved either on the field or off it.
Take Paul Lambert, for example. He said, quite honestly, that for some premier league managers the FA Cup could be a distraction.
Now, if you consider that some premier league clubs have …
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Steve: C.f. Phil Neville on MOTD2 talking about Rosicky's audacious blind pas...
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
