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TTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16

Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it could be a long season for supporters of Carlisle, Dagenham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Morecambe and Newport.

AFC Wimbledon

For the first half of last season, Wimbledon looked like they might just push on. Matt Tubbs …

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview

In the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who’s who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that they’ll each do well, but suggest that they’ll have plenty of competition, not least from Southend and York.

AFC Wimbledon

It’s fair to say that the AFCW squad has more or …

TTU Awards 2013-14: Manager of the Season

The Ginger Mourinho? Not really – for a start, Sean Dyche comes across as a thoroughly decent human being and The Ginger Pellegrini’ would be a more apt label.

How could it be anyone else? For Dyche has perhaps bested even the likes of Danny Wilson, Paul Jewell and Brian McDermott in elevating an underpaid and unheralded squad to the heights of the Premier League. It should be remembered …

Book Review: Tales From The Secret Footballer

Tales from the Secret Footballer
Published by Guardian Books
November 2013, £7.99

The Secret Footballer columns run by The Guardian for three years or so now have been an entertaining sideshow to the usual Premier League spotlight but in recent months, interest in this cleverly nurtured phenomenon has dropped off a little – for there can be very little doubt now that the man in question is Dave Kitson.…