Credit to last year’s winners Wolverhampton Wanderers who have bounced back under the shrewd stewardship of Kenny Jackett and might fancy their chances of making it a complete recovery were not their fans keenly aware of the dangers of hubris.
Given this, the category turned out to be fairly split with Tranmere Rovers (top of League 1 in January 2013, relegated by May the following year), Northampton Town (from …
From Graveyard to Ambition by Phil Sumbler
Published by Amberley Publishing
2013, £12.99
Perhaps the most successful manifestation of supporter involvement in football ownership is the story of Swansea City who, despite some icky form of late, have enjoyed a quite ludicrous rise to prominence over the last decade while being held up as a poster child for all that is good in soccer governance. Here, Alex Quayle, an …
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.…
Having made a number of appearances on podcasts in recent years including Two Footed Tackle and The Tilehurst End, our founder writers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge are perhaps inclined to go in the corner and hide, such are the demands of stationing oneself behind the microphone. Hence, we are in admiration of anyone who has stuck at it, let alone done it really well indeed.
The recent FSF …
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