Just hours after England manager Fabio Capello cited the large amounts of money paid to top players as a cause for concern in the modern game, football fans all over the country were shocked by the sudden death of Macclesfield manager Keith Alexander. Whilst he had previously suffered health problems, his death at just 53 years of age puts the hyperbole surrounding every aspect of our national sport into perspective.Alexander never played or managed at the top level. As a player he plied his trade as an unremarkable striker for a series of lower league clubs including Barnet, Grimsby, Stockport,…
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Peterborough’s White Flag
Where to start with the Posh? A recent post wondered whether their latest manager Jim Gannon would be able to keep them up, but survival is surely out of reach now that George Boyd, their best player, has effectively moved on to bolster Forest’s faltering promotion hopes.The signs have been ominous for a few weeks now. Impressive as it was, Peterborough’s 3-1 win against Ipswich was tinged by an eruption of bad feeling between the management and the playing squad’s ‘holy trinity’, Boyd, Craig Mackail-Smith and Aaron McLean. While the latter was restricted to a six-minute jog-out from the bench,…
Trigger Happy
Our first guest post for some time comes from Stockport County fan and activist Simon Holt (aka ‘Scarf’), who casts his opinion on Peterborough’s new manager, Jim Gannon, who enjoyed a successful spell at Edgeley Park between 2005 and 2009.So, the footballing parody of The Apprentice that is currently masquerading itself as Peterborough United got a new young pretender at the helm last night. Former Stockport and Motherwell boss Jim Gannon comes to London Road with something of a colourful reputation. Renowned for employing a stylish brand of expansive, attacking football, Gannon has become equally well-known for his outbursts off…
Window of opportunity or pane in the ass? Part 2
We’ve covered the second tier’s January transfer window winners - now for the losers…Nottingham ForestThe Tricky Trees may be routinely sweeping aside the opposition with the sort of free-flowing football any neutral fan would be happy to pay good money to see (or at least they were until Saturday’s defeat by - of all teams - Derby), but there’s a potential fly in the ointment: the thinness of their squad, particularly by comparison with their main promotion rivals ourselves and West Brom. Should the second half of the season bring injuries and loss of form, as it surely must, they…
The Thursday Preview: Crystal Palace Vs Peterborough
I speculated in December as to what odds you could get on a Championship club entering administration this season and, less than two months later, it’s all kicked off at Palace after murky creditors Agilo Ltd, a Cayman Islands-registered company, got the administrators involved. The Eagles were, along with Watford, the subject of that post but while Lord Ashcroft came to the rescue of the Hornets before Christmas, there was to be no last minute reprieve here, despite a rumoured last minute intervention by Ron Noades. The former Palace Chairman spoke smarmily on Sky Sports News about the situation yesterday…
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