Leon Cort has a big summer head of him. While the attention of most of this country will be squarely focused on events in Poland and the Ukraine, his national side Guyana will be stepping out on to the turf at a yet to be determined Mexican stadium; this potential tussle with a man known as Chicharito, the first of a sequence of six games that are the most important in the nation’s footballing history. With his club Charlton seemingly cruising to a place in next year’s Championship, Cort will be galvanised for the steep task ahead and Guyana have…
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The Monday Profile: Ben Marshall
Flash back to the 31st of January 2010 – shot shy Carlisle United are desperate for an experienced front man to come in to help out the earnest pairing of Scott Dobie and Joe Anyinsah, the then still errant, gangling giraffe Gary Madine and the bunged-up blunderbuss Richard Offiong. By mid-morning the signing of a striker had been announced, in the form of 18 year old Stoke City man Ben Marshall, a youngster who’d had earlier spells with a pair of League Two Towns – Northampton and Cheltenham. To say the Cumbrian faithful were unimpressed would be to understate it….
Turmoil Week: Port Vale
Following SJ Maskell’s torrid Pompey prologue of yesterday, the spotlight now falls on a second club beginning with P: the Valiants from Burslem in Staffordshire and a business that has fallen on decidedly hard times after punching above its weight for much of the nineties. We last heard from Tom Bourne in June; his coruscating post casting a light on troubling events at Vale Park. Now, he brings the story up to date - and it ain’t pretty reading. Who said following a football club was easy? Summarising Vale’s often traumatic 2010-11 season in these pages back in June, I signed…
The Monday Profile: Michael Duberry
Picaresque wanderings that would impress Joseph Andrews himself define the career of Michael Duberry; one time Match of the Day super kid and now gracing the portals of the Kassam Stadium, following his arrival at Oxford United as a free agent earlier this week.Having already turned out for Reading and Wycombe, “Dubes” has now set out his stall in each of the counties covered by the Thames Valley Police Force, but it’s an earlier brush with the law that internet sources often seem reluctant to comment upon at length.Duberry unwittingly played the Astrid Proll role when Leeds’ team mates Lee…
The Monday Profile: John Halls
Of course John Halls isn’t the only prodigy in the history of the game to be left scrapping for attention in less exalted climes - give it a year or two and Fernando Torres could be gracing Griffin Park. Still, he’s a player that has always fascinated me for his textbook personification of the “what might have been” scenario.Along with Steve Sidwell, Jerome Thomas and Jay Bothroyd, he was an FA Youth Cup Winner at the Arsenal eleven years ago; the Gunners defeating Coventry City in the Final. None of those players went on to create first team waves at Highbury so…
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