West Brom fans still fill cheated by defeat in the 2008 semi-final to a Portsmouth team living way, way beyond its means, writes Frank Heaven.
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Spring 2008 was a strange time in our recent history.
The good times were still just about rolling, but the first ominous rumbles of the looming financial thunderstorm could be heard.
There was a similar situation at Portsmouth Football Club.
Under manager Harry …
When scouring our memories for a figure who might be seen to best epitomise the lower leagues of English football, several names came to mind. Despite his having recently managed on several occasions in the Premier League, our thoughts kept on coming back to one man - Mr. Neil Warnock. Over the sequence of a few days, we shall be analysing Warnock in a number of posts, some of …
Haircuts and League Cups: The Rise and Fall of Carson Yeung by Daniel Ivery and Will Giles
Published by GHI HK Limited
2014, £20
The career of Carson Yeung, and his troubled reign as Birmingham City chairman, is chronicled in a colourful book by Blues blogger Daniel Ivery.
Birmingham City meet West Bromwich Albion on Saturday at St Andrews, their first meeting since 5 March 2011 – six days …
There is a real treat for students of football blogging today as we are pleased to announce a comeback for David Bevan, head honcho of legendary football league website The Seventy Two. Despite stepping back from the scene, David has retained his season ticket to Leicester City and has conjured up this assessment of the Foxes’ progress as they near Christmas on their return to the Premier League, a …
If football and music were starting to find common ground as the Nineties dawned, this was still very much at the underground level. The homespun productions of the fanzine movement cut across both disciplines and the offbeat haircut-chronicling and socially conscious When Saturday Comes reader identified more with fans of quintessentially indie jokers Half Man Half Biscuit, purveyors of such memorable ditties as All I want for Christmas …
Mike: Good piece, which I read mainly from the perspective of a Boro fan loo...
Andy Clark: Sounds like a fantastic book, not for everyone of course but I enjoy t...
Steve: To be honest all I can remember about Plymouth fans from that match is...
eric smallwood: Great telling of a great story - I followed city as a student, includi...
Steve: Did Warnock deliberately get the game called off? No. Brown and Ullath...
