On this day, the Summer solstice, supporters should be wedged into a period where footballing issues come second to family holidays, all those cultural pursuits that we’ve neglected for the past 10 months, and DIY. Instead, though, too many of us are forced into a state of continued misery where ownership wrangles and uncertainty over our clubs’ futures mean that we’re still glued to the headlines, unable to go a day without logging on to the messageboards to keep up with the unfolding drama. At Port Vale, supporters are very much involved in ongoing efforts to revive their ailing club; Valiants supporter Tom Bourne lets us in…
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TTU Awards 2010/2011: Flop of the Season
It’s perhaps unfair to blame all the miseries of one club on one man, and Kris Boyd’s improvement in fortunes on swapping the red of Teesside for Trentside only heaps further ignominy on Project Strachan; but the disjunct between the reputation of a man with 174 goals plundered north of Hadrian’s Wall and the miserable nature of his performances for Boro was startling. He scored six times, but it was the heavy lidded failure to look interested that shocked. None of this may be his fault with the club in turmoil, but his rumoured £30,000 a week wages justify his selection….
Moore’s the pity
On a weekend of whopping away wins in the Football League, the ordinarily noteable scorelines posted by Yeovil, Stevenage and Wycombe were eclipsed by Rotherham romping to a 6-0 victory over Lincoln at Sincil Bank - a result all the more remarkable for the fact that it was achieved without a manager and their leading scorer, and having been on the end of a heavy drubbing themselves in their previous match. Talk about bouncebackability. I think that probably qualifies as the “response” that caretaker Andy Liddell was hoping for…Spare a thought for Liddell’s predecessor Ronnie Moore. Having parted company with…
The Thursday Preview: Port Vale Vs Gillingham
For most of the nineties, Stoke City and Port Vale seemed to be battling it out for Potteries hegemony, but those days seem very distant now. Tony Pulis has converted the Britannia from a nasty place to visit on most fronts to a nasty one on all fronts and the Potters’ excellent reaction to a dreadful start is typical of their determination as a club. Meanwhile, across in Burslem, it’s been a miserable return to form for Vale, forced to look on enviously as the traditional order has been restored.At the end of September, this trend seemed to have been…
Football League Stars gone American
A remarkable characteristic of the soccerine blogosphere is the healthy percentage of the better sites that are North American controlled, with Run of Play and Pitch Invasion two notables in this respect. Although distance from the action leads to an often unhealthy reliance on secondary sources (we ourselves can clutch at straws and take the moral high ground as my fellow blogger Lloyd makes the trek to Colchester tomorrow), their coverage continues to meet a high standard and nowhere more so than in their analyses of the stateside game’s showpiece platform, Major League Soccer.Now, I myself am being forced to…
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