Following yesterday’s start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship. Bradford City Fairytale Bradford City have added a little sheen to their well built squad as they look to attack League 1 at a canter – Rochdale’s Jason Kennedy and experienced winger Mark Yeates join the standout performers James Hanson, Carl McHugh and the quicksilver Nahki Wells in Phil Parkinson’s promotion winning squad. Much will be expected of Wells’ second shot at this level after a failed…
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A Football League SWOT Analysis: The Weaknesses
Of course by its very definition the Football League is weak – comparatively. While it’s true that West Ham and Southampton skilfully negotiated the step up to the Premier League this past year, both enjoyed wage structures and transfer budgets way beyond the scope of second tier clubs. Yesterday’s opening post on this four day SWOT analysis salvo perhaps painted too rosy a picture of the League’s attributes. Today’s comes up with a decidedly different portrait. It’s clear that many of the competition’s strengths have their exact obverse on the weaknesses front and indeed, many of these issues are perilously close to the threats…
Pompey’s Revival is Likely to be in Vain
On the qualified basis of the League One table alone, Portsmouth Football Club are upwardly mobile enough to consider survival a possibility as the season enters its final months. On Good Friday, I had the pleasure of witnessing the new Pompey in the flesh on a skin-chafing afternoon at Deepdale. Gone of course are the bonanza boys of yore, those cocky displayers of the FA Cup, mugs staring outward from the pages of the programme – Crouch, Defoe, Diarra. The aftermath of that period of excess is one of the most chequered squads this level will have seen – bargain…
TTU’s Goodreads 08-02-13
Good reads is probably a misnomer for this column as we also hope to highlight other online activities such as podcasts as well as tumblr style blogs of which Karl Smout’s Footysphere is a particular favourite. By way of illustration, our first pick this week is an audio one. Episode 69 - Dickov Leaves the Latics, We Are Going Up! This season has seen the We Are Going Up! podcast shift focus to concentrate on in depth interviews covering major issues in the Football League in a given week. The result has been an absorbing series of episodes and the…
How Low Will Phil Brown Stoop Before He Gets a Job?
We’ve swung both ways on these pages as regards Phil Brown. In assessing his League One bound Preston side towards the end of 2011-12, my co-editor presented the defence, arguing that he’s “guilty of nothing more than being occasionally annoying”. Give the man a break, dissenters were told. On the other hand, Ben – TTU’s resident Geordie – offered a retort, describing Brown as nothing more than “a varnished Mackem with a hot-air-balloon-sized ego who unleashed his karaoke Sinatra on the pitch in celebration of our relegation is anything less than a prize tosser.” As for this correspondent, my Dad…
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