All posts tagged Southampton

We Are Going Up! Interview: Podcasting the Football League

Having made a number of appearances on podcasts in recent years including Two Footed Tackle and The Tilehurst End, our founder writers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge are perhaps inclined to go in the corner and hide, such are the demands of stationing oneself behind the microphone. Hence, we are in admiration of anyone who has stuck at it, let alone done it really well indeed.

The recent FSF …

Championship Finances: Five Key Takeaways

On August 1, the peerless blog The Swiss Ramble published an invaluable presentation of the profit and loss accounts for Championship clubs in the 2011-12 season.

Of course much has happened since including the arrival in the competition of Queen’s Park Rangers; a club the financial wealth of which will be decidedly byzantine and worthy of a week-long series of articles. Accounts for Wigan Athletic would also make …

Book Review: I am Zlatan Ibrahimović

I am Zlatan Ibrahimović
by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz
Published by Penguin
2013, £8.99

Former Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson was once asked how to deal with the maverick player who isn’t always perhaps the best influence on the dressing room.

‘Sell him to Manchester United for a million pounds’ was the laconic reply.

Even after the fact, such self-awareness in relation to the notorious jettisoning of …

Book Review: The Nowhere Men

The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin
Published by Century
2013, £14.99

They are a mythical breed, not to say a forgotten one in these days where youtube videos are said to inspire signings, but, in an increasingly hybrid and varied form, soccer scouts continue to ply their trade – and yet it’s an aspect of the game that we as punters understand so little of.

Hence, Michael Calvin’s new …

TTU Go Predicting: Best Free Agent

A look at the Professional Footballers’ Association list of out of contract and available players becomes more depressing by the year, even if there are Premier League outcasts aplenty whose current availability is often more a consequence of protracted contract negotiations and a choice of suitors. Hence, Chris Baird, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Carlton Cole and the like will end up somewhere eventually.

Of those, the pick of the list …