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Preston North End and the Compensations of New Towns

Today we welcome When Saturday Comes author Jo Breen, a former season ticket holder at Bohemians 1905 in the Czech Republic and the first Preston North End follower to write for this site. On Saturday, Jo made the trip from her home on the Grand Union Canal to witness Graham Westley’s return to the club which he did so much to build:

Since moving to Milton Keynes I’ve …

Weighing in on the Price of Football

Politicians like to talk about the squeezed middle - a concept that focus groups tell them plays well to a hard-working and hard-pressed often middle class demographic who have done nothing wrong financially but find the costs of living creeping ever further up so, through no fault of their own, fall towards the poverty line.

It may make for a catchy soundbite at party conferences but said squeeze is …

Swindon Town, Sheffield United and Financial Fair Play

Perhaps the most significant occurrence of these early weeks of the 2012-13 season has been the transfer embargo imposed upon Swindon Town after the Robins became the first to fall foul of the new League 1 directives that a club’s fees and wages should not exceed 65% of its turnover.

You’ll recall that a transfer tribunal’s insistence that a combined £340,000 be coughed up for James Collins and Troy Archibald-Henville …

TTU Awards 2011-12: Team of the Season

In the end, just a single point separated Reading and Southampton; the Berkshire club’s astounding run of form from January built very much on their being a team and not a collection of individuals and Adam Le Fondre’s thrilling brace deciding the April summit meeting. Either could have been worthy winners of this award – Reading for overcoming the loss of key players Shane Long and Matt Mills and …

TTU Awards 2011-12: Manager of the Season

For our penultimate award it’s difficult, as ever, to overlook those managers who have steered their team to either a championship or promotion winning season.

Indeed, despite his irritating histrionics and basic unpleasantness, Paolo di Canio took a previously dismal Swindon back up to League 1 at the first time of asking against a backdrop of tragic personal circumstances and, should he stick it out in Wiltshire, his side should …