These quiet mid-January weeks used to be devoted to anticipation while we waited between rounds 3 and 4 of the FA Cup and if many will have you believe that matters Premier League and transfer window are the only ones worth thinking about as Burns Night approaches, quite a few of us still hark back to the old days. Not least Rochdale, who along with thoughts of the world’s greatest knockout competition, are also relishing a promotion battle in League 2. Here, Stuart Howard-Cofield, curator of the Grumpy Old Fan website and contributor to The Football Pink, runs the rule over ‘Dale - you…
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TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
We’re baaack! Kicking off this year’s look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who’ll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on where they might finish. Then, tomorrow and Wednesday, we put the spotlight on League 1 and the Championship respectively before spending the rest of the time leading up to August 3 offering forth some predictions for the campaign which in some way mirror our annual end of season awards posts. Accrington Stanley James Beattie’s never really come across as management material and it…
TTU Awards 2011-12: Best Club Website/Blog
2011-12 was torrid for the blogs. Two trailblazing club websites, Viva Rovers and Boy from Brazil called it a day and the circumstances behind these closures made a significant impact, provoking a serious amount of existential, ‘why do we do this?’ mutterings. Then, just a fortnight ago, Ben Mayhew decided to discontinue his Greenwich Gull site although he will remain active via his Experimental 361 persona. Thankfully, some terrific sites remain. Our own John McGee did a sterling job with his relaunch of Carlisle United soapbox, Bring Me the Head of Keith Mincher and last year’s winner FC Boro happily…
Tranmere’s Revitalization under Ronnie Moore
Our latest guest post sees us very pleased to welcome Paul Harper, co-host of the Totally Tranmere podcast and the author of an eclectic blog. Here at TTU, we would admit to having covered the Prenton Park club less than we would like to have done in our three years of existence so to be able to call upon the services of Paul is something of a boon. Here, he looks at the remarkable progress the Wirral club has made since Ronnie Moore’s return…and they say, ‘never go back.’ Can one man turn around the fortunes of a football club…
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