The thirty third installment in our Great Teams series sees us remain in the midlands. Nathan Briant has recently blogged on the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England manager but here, he casts his mind back to an entertaining Walsall side from just over a decade ago, one whom one member of the TTU staff remembers with much anguish after an unhappy visit to the Millennium stadium. Nathan can be followed on Twitter at @nathanbriant. There was a time, briefly, when Walsall were able to challenge for the top few places of what was Division Two. Ray Graydon, despite never…
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The Monday Profile: Taiwo Atieno
One of the curiosities of African football has been the relatively undistinguished performance of national teams from the east side of the continent. Ethiopia and Sudan may have won continental titles in 1962 and 1970 but that was before the era when most countries participated, and the cultural and ethnic make up of those states is quite different from the the cluster of countries that tends to be referred to as” East Africa” in geographic and political terms - the territories that were at the heart of British colonial power - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.Of these, Kenya has always been…
The Monday Profile: Mark Wright
Even if Dion Dublin had gone on to achieve diddly squat in his career, Cambridge United fans would forever cherish his memory for a youthful one man show against local rivals Peterborough in 1990. Similarly, Mark Wright, though only a loan star, will have secured himself a place in Shrewsbury Town’s spangled hall of fame after a hat-trick in the 4-0 shellacking of Hereford United a couple of weeks back.In the county of Much Wenlock and the Long Mynd, Chairman Roland Wycherley is as Shropshire a Lad as can be and he’ll have been delighted by a victory in one…
Who will fall at the first?
Following a decidedly unromantic Thursday Preview, in which Lanterne Rouge has forecast Tipton Town to take what the 44th President of the United States might describe as a ‘shellacking’ against a grand old opponent from League 1, I’ve taken upon myself the task of restoring a sense of hope to the misty-eyed among our audience. In the laissez-faire culture of the contemporary game, there are few butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers among those who take the field on 1st Round weekend. On the contrary, the teams that form the peak of the non-league pyramid are often as formidable an opposition as the clubs…
TTU 2010/11 Season Preview: League 1 (Part Two)
See Part One of the TTU 2010/11 League 1 Season Preview here. MK Dons Ok. Leaving the club from Milton Keynes out altogether may make us look a little childish. Will we still be ignoring them 20 years from now, when they have supporters who have grown up with them as their home-town club? Probably not. But, after a bit of back and forth, it was decided that this year is too soon for us. Notts County Headline of the Summer Not an easy one since we’ve strengthened beyond many expectations with some quality signings who are already impressing the…
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