So. Here we are, then. Pushing two years into the Pozzo’s ownership and the promised land still hasn’t been reached, Watford sit much where they always did somewhere in the middle of the second tier. Two years worth of steady influx of Johnny Foreigners into Vicarage Road (and, in some cases, straight out again), presumably denying match time to locally born lads who would otherwise have been furthering the …
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Football and High Speed Rail 2: The Pros and Cons
One of the more emotive of political causes in recent times has been the plan to build a new high speed rail line between London, the North of England and the Midlands; the now notorious High Speed 2 project – often abbreviated to plain HS2.
With construction due to begin in 2017, the plan is for the line to extend north westwards from Euston station in the capital to …
Cardiff City, Age Discrimination and Common Sense
Last week, Cardiff City placed their head of recruitment, Iain Moody, the man presumably responsible for the signing of Gary Medel, Andreas Cornelius and Steven Caulker, on gardening leave and replaced him with Alisher Apsalyamov.
The BBC hailed this news with the headline, ‘Cardiff replace head of recruitment with 23-year-old Kazakh.’
So far, so accurate although as a sentence riven with hidden opinion, it’s as fine an example as …
Undisclosed Fees are Warping Football
Yesterday, Queen’s Park Rangers brought Matt Phillips to London. In the past twelve months, the 22 year old winger has been eclipsed somewhat by the arrival on the scene of teammate Tom Ince, while injury hampered his progress in 2012-13.
Even allowing for the stuttering nature of the player’s career, also highlighted by an earlier, slightly bemusing loan spell at Sheffield United in 2011, he remains hot property given …
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 …
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