The great surrealist filmmaker, Luis Buñuel would have relished the scenes at Northampton’s Sixfields stadium on Sunday as Coventry City staged their second League 1 fixture of the 2013-14 season.
Scarcely more than 2,000 souls were present as the Sky Blues entertained Preston North End, almost half of them from Lancashire, while the Alwyn Hargrave Stand was left empty for the occasion.
The Sky Blues fans who were in …
After a 25-year absence, Newport County returned to the Football League in May with an extraordinary play-off final win over Wrexham. For a club who were wound up, reformed and exiled to Gloucestershire in the intervening years, it is a phenomenal and heart-warming achievement. What’s more, they actually look half-decent, and we certainly wouldn’t bet against them to carry last season’s winning form into League 2 and trouble the …
A look at the Professional Footballers’ Association list of out of contract and available players becomes more depressing by the year, even if there are Premier League outcasts aplenty whose current availability is often more a consequence of protracted contract negotiations and a choice of suitors. Hence, Chris Baird, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Carlton Cole and the like will end up somewhere eventually.
Of those, the pick of the list …
Following yesterday’s start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship.
Bradford City
Fairytale Bradford City have added a little sheen to their well built squad as they look to attack League 1 at a canter – Rochdale’s Jason Kennedy and experienced winger Mark Yeates join …
Last week, it was announced that a certain Scotsman would take the reins at England’s biggest club come August. David Moyes’ record at Everton has been called into question by the more arrogant among Red Devils’ fans but his supposed unfamiliarity with real achievement can be further rebuffed with recourse to his astonishing six year sojourn at Preston - taking a club that had been recently in danger of …
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Steve: C.f. Phil Neville on MOTD2 talking about Rosicky's audacious blind pas...
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Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
