Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this season’s Championship - a competition where extortionate transfer fees, underqualified managers and frankly terrifying owners hold sway, where parachute payments warp the competition and everyone is indulging in the filthy scramble for Premier League …
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TTU Awards 2013-14: Flop of the Season
Credit to last year’s winners Wolverhampton Wanderers who have bounced back under the shrewd stewardship of Kenny Jackett and might fancy their chances of making it a complete recovery were not their fans keenly aware of the dangers of hubris.
Given this, the category turned out to be fairly split with Tranmere Rovers (top of League 1 in January 2013, relegated by May the following year), Northampton Town (from …
In Defence of Pitch Invasions
In August 2013, the International Business Times website published an article with the headline: ‘EXCLUSIVE: New Hooligan Fears as FA Allows Pitch Invasions to go Unpunished.’
Accompanied by a photograph of an anonymous supporter looking vaguely jubilant as he’s carried off by four stewards, it went on to explain that ‘the Football Association will not issue immediate punishments to clubs whose fans invade the pitch, despite the ugly scenes …
Back in the Ex-USSR: Former Soviet Nationals in the Football League
Amid the relentless cacophony of last Friday’s transfer deadline day, Radio Five Live’s needlessly exhaustive coverage did include an interesting discussion on the whys and wherefores of signing players from the former Soviet Union in the light of Liverpool’s failed bid to take Yevhen Konoplyanka to the club from Dnipro.
Examples were given of underperformers from the one time Russian orbit with Martin Keown contrasting Oleh Luzhnyi’s ‘OK’ performances …
Eye Witness Assessment: Lomas Wins the Tactical Battle for Millwall
After a cluster of good results in September, Millwall’s season, and their away form in particular, had threatened to derail again under Steve Lomas – horrific 4-0 and 5-2 reverses at Birmingham and Bournemouth indicating that all was still not quite right under the Ulsterman; fans of the South London side primed to start howling again at the first hint of failure, the manager’s tendency to tinker and his …
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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...
