Late March, and if you listen carefully you can – in the parlance of a certain puce-cheeked knight of the realm – hear the sound of bums starting to squeak. So, time to cast an eye over the teams who this May are most likely to be swapping the preening pros, plastic fans and prawn sandwiches of the Premier League for the Bovril, goal celebration music and cheerleaders of the Championship. In descending order… Aston Villa The Villains are seemingly intent on casting themselves in the role for this year’s Big Club Who Get Sucked Into Trouble. They can’t score…
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Capital: London Football, Present and Future
In an article last year, The Economist coined the phrase `Londonism’ to refer to what it regarded as a distinct ideology driven by the office of Mayor. It cited as the central tenets of `Londonism’: enthusiasm for the financial services industry; an openness to immigration; and the unceasing pursuit of economic growth. The success of this new way of thinking, according to the piece, is symbolized by the redevelopment of the Docklands to the east of the city’s centre. The landscape of this part of the city is now replete with tall, shimmering citadels of global financial behemoths, futuristically-designed transport hubs and high-value property developments. Unsurprisingly, however, the article fails to look beyond the streets…
The Monday Profile: Pascal Chimbonda
A look at the list of players that have decided to procure the services of Willie McKay as an agent makes interesting reading. Few from a roster that includes Henri Camara, Joey Barton, Amdy Faye and Charles N’Zogbia have been shy of entering into contract disputes and the subject of today’s study, Pascal Chimbonda is no exception – the Guadeloupe born defender having joined Doncaster Rovers on Friday.Cast your mind back to the final game of the 2005-6 season – a campaign that saw Chimbonda start 44 games for Wigan Athletic, secure the right back berth in the PFA Team of…
Bank Holidaying in Hungary
Excuse the imaginative-less title, but I thought that I’d direct peoples’ attention to a new piece that I devoted portions of my Bank Holiday weekend to which has now gone up on the excellent Hungarian Football website. It’s a recent history of Plymouth Argyle as told through the experiences of their three former Magyars, Ákos Buzsáky, Péter Halmosi and Krisztián Timár. At less than 2000 words, I’d hope that it would be of interest more widely to non-Argyle supporters, particularly those of QPR and Hull where Buzsáky and Halmosi have respectively enjoyed mixed fortunes. For anyone who also came across…
TTU Awards 2010/2011: Team of the Season
Spanning our coverage to three divisions would always present problems when deciding upon this season’s best team. Just as the WBA, IBF and WBC versions of international boxing competed for eminence in the 1980s, Queen’s Park Rangers, Chesterfield and Brighton and Hove Albion possess equal claims to be the top canines thirty or so years on….and why restrict deliberations to actual Champions? Also mentioned by our pollsters were a Rochdale punching so far above their weight as to be dazzled, Championship Cities Norwich and Swansea, a Stevenage experiencing heady climes, and a benighted Plymouth Argyle squad for battling on to the end of the season…
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