A lot of column centimetres have been devoted to Huddersfield Town striker Jordan Rhodes in recent weeks and to have kept his head while others around him have been placing it upon the financial guillotine has been admirable – yes, that’s you David Gold. Three excellent articles in The Seventy Two have explored the appeal of the man while our own blogger Ben profiled him in these pages as 2012 drew to its conclusion. Rhodes had already provided enough for all of us to chew on in the game of the football league season so far at Hillsborough in December…
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A Manchester United defender would be nice
The Peterborough United of 2009-10 were one of our three most heavily covered clubs. A tempestuous period saw Darren Ferguson’s exciting young team, enriched by a luxurious three pronged attack consisting of George Boyd, Craig Mackail-Smith and Aaron McLean, learn some harsh lessons when it came to defence – by the time Mark Cooper, Jim Gannonand Gary Johnson had each taken a turn at London Road, the Championship dream was in tatters. Posh went straight back down, suffering the ignominy of a brutal 6-0 defeat at the Madejski Stadium in the run in.Back at the Mad Stad last night, it…
The Thursday Preview: Peterborough Vs Ipswich
With the top two from last year’s League 1 table being transposed atop the Championship, it is perhaps understandable that much attention has been focused on the South Coast mutual dislike society, Southampton and Brighton. However, the third of the promoted clubs have also made an encouraging start to their campaign. Wednesday’s creditable draw at the Den might not have been the best team performance so far this season, but both Peterborough’s strengths and frailties were there to assess. The departure of last season’s leading scorer Craig Mackail-Smith to the aformentioned Seagulls has left many wondering where this hitherto freescoring…
Honesty: the best policy?
For the most part this site is resolutely non-partisan, shying away from inflammatory articles and the bilious, monosyllabic responses they attract from spittle-flecked, talkSPORT-listening meatheads in favour of carefully considered argument and reasonable, civil debate. In fact, the only thing that seems to get the eminently agreeable Lanterne Rouge hot under the collar is a certain mob from Milton Keynes, worthy winners of this year’s TTU Award for Crimes against Football. So, Lanterne Rouge, I beg forgiveness in advance for what follows, in which I speak relatively kindly about one of the MK Dons’ number, Sam Baldock…The story began with…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Player of the Season
Our votes in this most storied of categories were split evenly and many of the usual characters cropped up. Grant Holt, so hearteningly wonderful in this year of Canary yellow, will be looking back on his days as a definitive journeyman and Singapore leaguer with disbelief and Scott Sinclair’s play off heroics confirmed an ability to link wideside flair with end product.Lower down the leagues, Craig Mackail-Smith was a whirling blond dervish for the Posh and Danny Whitaker and Craig Davies of Chesterfield had notable times of it, even if the latter should be marked down a little for the…
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