(Written with considerable assistance from Scarf.)After my team’s brief sojourn in the Championship last season, I’m now back to watching The Football League Show as an interested neutral. There are a few things you can guarantee happening every week: Manish Bhasin will begin speaking to the wrong camera; Mark Clemmit will be seen acting out some forced jollity with a bemused manager; Steve Claridge or Leroy Rosenior (whoever’s on that week) will overuse their catchphrase - “There’s no doubt about that” and “Absolutely” respectively; and when the lights go down at the end, Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes will leave her desk perch…
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The Thursday Preview: Rochdale Vs Charlton
Carbrini Sportswear is to athletic kit what Dixy Fried Chicken is to fast food: available only in the discount stores of inner city, working class suburbs like Harpurhey or Woolwich, conjuring up images of Sunday morning high roads buffeted by gales and greasy cartons. That the firm has manufactured uniforms and sponsored a bevy of lower league clubs is therefore telling; but it’s about all that links the adversaries in Saturday’s Spotland clash between Rochdale and Charlton.For this is one of those games Peter Snow would have loved plotting with the swingometer. As Matt Holland was firing them past Chelsea…
TTU 2010/11 Season Preview: League 1 (Part Two)
See Part One of the TTU 2010/11 League 1 Season Preview here.MK DonsOk. Leaving the club from Milton Keynes out altogether may make us look a little childish. Will we still be ignoring them 20 years from now, when they have supporters who have grown up with them as their home-town club? Probably not. But, after a bit of back and forth, it was decided that this year is too soon for us.Notts CountyHeadline of the SummerNot an easy one since we’ve strengthened beyond many expectations with some quality signings who are already impressing the fans. Choosing one definitive moment,…
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