For obvious reasons, the match of the weekend is probably West Brom’s trip to Newcastle, or at least that’s what the media will tell us. Rather than toeing the line, I think I’ll leave that to others and focus instead on a game of true Championship grit which will almost certainly be every bit as entertaining: Mark Robin’s up-and-at-’em Barnsley at home to Sheffield Wednesday, led for the first time by Alan Irvine. With the average Championship manager’s tenure now lasting around 18 months, there are always new beginnings to comment on, but a winter’s South Yorkshire derby, played out…
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Their Laws
I’ve had a soft spot for Brian Laws dating back to 1989 when John Aldridge patted him on the head in thanks for an own goal in an FA Cup Semi Final that Nottingham Forest were almost morally disallowed from winning, coming as it did in the wake of Hillsborough. Liverpool achieved partial solace by going on to win the Cup but Laws retained my strong sympathy for this maltreatment.His ascension to the Premier League is a heartening reversal of fortune. I am currently reading Stuart Sutherland’s psychology classic Irrationality and although that book advises paying no attention at all…
Transient Reputations
If the Championship could for one minute merely be likened to the surface of the world, as opposed to the entirety of the cosmos as Lloyd and I tend to view it, the rupture to its tectonic plates brought about by the crude sackings of Darren Ferguson and Alan Irvine has now been uneasily righted by their re-emergence at Preston and Sheffield Wednesday. Each had engineered a mini-renaissance at their previous clubs and for both Lilywhites and Posh, 2009 will be seen as a folkloric year.Granted, Preston’s tame surrender in the play offs doesn’t compete with unbeaten league and cup…
Off Field Issues in the Second Flight
With stout geese about the nation’s farmyards, it’s been an explosive period when it comes to off field activities in the lower leagues. I chronicled some of the reasons behind Brendan Rodgers’ departure from Reading yesterday but that’s far from the only story occupying column inches as we await the last pre-Christmas fixtures. The following issues are also prominent:A managerless Sheffield WednesdayOur occasional correspondent and Football Lexicon author John Leigh is currently holed up in Italy attempting to finish a biography of Voltaire, but his thoughts are rarely far from Hillsborough. It’s been a torrid period for the Owls, with…
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