When I last wrote of Blackburn Rovers in the autumn, my verdict was overwhelmingly harsh. After all, the imposters who currently own the club are still in place, the wage bill is exalted and the consequences of year upon year of over spending and declining attendances are beginning to bite hard. If there is a club whom Blackburn resemble in their current trajectory, it’s Coventry City, a …
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Kieran Lee and José Semedo are providing Sheffield Wednesday with a New Poise
Sheffield Wednesday’s victory at Reading on Saturday was notable for some significant tactical thinking from newly appointed manager Stuart Gray.
Without question, the game hinged on the ninth minute incident which saw Alex Pearce adjudged to have upended former Royals loanee Benik Afobe in the area before the double jeopardy of the current rulings allowed Chris Maguire to put the Owls ahead from the spot.
With Nigel Adkins perhaps …
Back in the Ex-USSR: Former Soviet Nationals in the Football League
Amid the relentless cacophony of last Friday’s transfer deadline day, Radio Five Live’s needlessly exhaustive coverage did include an interesting discussion on the whys and wherefores of signing players from the former Soviet Union in the light of Liverpool’s failed bid to take Yevhen Konoplyanka to the club from Dnipro.
Examples were given of underperformers from the one time Russian orbit with Martin Keown contrasting Oleh Luzhnyi’s ‘OK’ performances …
Eye Witness Assessment: Blackpool’s Alarming Slide
Although Blackpool almost suffered an equal fate to that of their fellow Lancastrians Bolton on visiting Reading on Tuesday night, the tone and manner of defeat was quite different.
Don’t misunderstand me, this was wretched from the Tangerines – an almost hopeless lack of quality exposed cruelly by the new directness Nigel Adkins has instilled recently – the team simply blown away by the home team’s marked superiority.
But …
Leicester City have the Championship Points Record in Their Sights
One hundred and six, one hundred and six. We’ve got the record, one hundred and six - so Reading supporters are known to proclaim – to general bemusement from opposing fans, it must be said. After all, setting new bests in a league which isn’t actually the best is perhaps not all that much to shout about.
But that greatest ever Championship side from 2005-6, the individual components of …
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