September 21 officially signals the end of the UK summer and we move into that leaf-peeping season curiously referred to by our Transatlantic cousins as the Fall. The term is apt if you’re a Royal, a Bluebird, a Pilgrim or a Tractor Boy, but as the weather resolutely refused to turn on another blisteringly Indian Summer of a weekend, which conclusions did we make?: West Bromwich Albion’s devastating defeat of Middlesbrough snatched our collective breaths away. Two seasons back, a late autumnal thumping of closest rivals Watford laid down a marker that would lead to eventual promotion; this term, the…
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The Sheffield Irvine Welsh
We don’t really go in for match reports on this blog, feeling that blow by blow accounts of actual events are best left to the purveyors of individual club sites - check out the bewilderingly excellent SmogBlog and Black and White & Read All Over for especially impressive examples of the art. Nonetheless, a new unique voice has been brought to my attention and I felt it remiss to pass up the opportunity to point you in his direction.Sheffield Wednesday have given us the root of the England official band and Tango Man, neither of whom are we particularly grateful…
The Signing of Artisans
Our second guest post of the day comes from John Leigh, author of a number of essential books including The Football Lexicon with David Woodhouse published by Faber & Faber (a magnificently droll exposure of footballing cliché), the Cricket Lexicon (same co-author, same publisher), The Search for Enlightenment: An Introduction to Eighteenth Century French Writing and co-editor of the Orion edition of The Figaro Plays by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Here, Dr. Leigh takes a break from his forthcoming biography of Voltaire and turns his attention to the 2009-10 prospects of his beloved Sheffield Wednesday:If the fortunes of football clubs…
Steve: @Lanterne Rouge
All the players were born on the island or have moved...
Lanterne Rouge: Fascinating post Chris. Reading this, I found my hostility to the proj...
Frank Heaven: LR – I think 'one club' counties besides Norfolk would include Heref...
Wimb: Ahhh Zico-Black! watched him play for Lancaster many times during my s...
