League One still hurts for Preston North End supporters. Although current travails don’t come close to the dark days of the 1980s when the club flirted alternately with going out of the league and out of business altogether, a fanbase reared on the successes of the David Moyes era, not to mention the enduring legacy of the Invincibles, are very unwilling to accept the third level as their place …
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Contractual Cliffs and Parasitic Nematodes at Blackpool FC
Today, we’re very happy to welcome back Chris Walker, known as @onedavebamber to his twitter followers, and curator of the excellent blog Up The Pool. Here, Chris looks back on a flat campaign for Blackpool Football Club.
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As the season draws to a close, there must be many in the wider footballing world wondering just what has happened at Blackpool. What became of the gung-ho, entertaining team …
Pompey’s Revival is Likely to be in Vain
On the qualified basis of the League One table alone, Portsmouth Football Club are upwardly mobile enough to consider survival a possibility as the season enters its final months.
On Good Friday, I had the pleasure of witnessing the new Pompey in the flesh on a skin-chafing afternoon at Deepdale. Gone of course are the bonanza boys of yore, those cocky displayers of the FA Cup, mugs staring outward …
TTU’s Goodreads: 15-03-13
Late December 2009 saw our founding bloggers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convene on Home Park for a Championship encounter between Plymouth Argyle and Reading. The result? A 4-1 victory for the home side and a worrying episode in Brian McDermott’s spell as caretaker manager of the Royals following the sacking of Brendan Rodgers.
Is Winning all that matters? The day the “Reading Way” died, The Tilehurst End
Happily, the …
TTU’s Goodreads: 15-02-13
An eclectic bunch of pieces relating to Football League clubs make up this week’s trio of recommends…
EXCLUSIVE: Graham Westley’s final column, Lancashire Evening Post
A rare spot in Goodreads for a column from a local rag. Here, in the first of a two parter, Graham Westley defends himself following his departure from Preston earlier in the week. It seems that it was one of those appointments that just …
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