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Book Review: York City: Fighting Back

By on November 5, 2013 in the Category Book Review with No comments
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York City: Fighting Back by Dave Flett Published by Amberley Publishing 2013, £14.99 ISBN: 978-1445614083 Life as a York City fan has largely been a predictable state of affairs down the years. Turn up, watch them be moderate to crap for 90 minutes, go home – simple. The glories are fleeting and to be clung to for far longer than is probably healthy and for the most part of the club’s existence, the lowest low was applying for re-election, something which was never realistically going to be refused. That changed in 1987 when an automatic relegation place was added and the…

TTU Go Predicting: Players to Watch

By on July 29, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 4 Comments
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As we head into the second week of our 2013-14 predictions, our focus turns to the players we deem to possess the potential to stand out amongst their peers. Whereas season previews tend to focus on teams more broadly, for which players could this be a year to remember on a personal level? Starting at the Madejski, having once accused Lionel Messi of being a racist we’ll be watching through fingers at what Reading’s new signing Royston Drenthe will do next for although there were more loose cannons at the Battle of Trafalgar, surely none was as potent. A strange…

TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview

By on July 22, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 45 Comments
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We’re baaack! Kicking off this year’s look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who’ll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on where they might finish. Then, tomorrow and Wednesday, we put the spotlight on League 1 and the Championship respectively before spending the rest of the time leading up to August 3 offering forth some predictions for the campaign which in some way mirror our annual end of season awards posts. Accrington Stanley James Beattie’s never really come across as management material and it…

Once More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion

By on April 26, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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Tonight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects: … Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you’ve mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it’s quite possible mathematically but will take a chain reaction of perhaps sub-nuclear proportions for Argyle to go down to the Football League. Having analysed the various relegation candidates for this blog a few weeks ago, who do you…

Relegation From the Football League is Not the End of the World

By on March 20, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 5 Comments
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This year’s League Two relegation battle is quite remarkable. Not just for the closeness of the fight, but for the teams involved. All bar one have recently spent time in the Conference and all bar one have gained promotion to the League since two-up two-down was introduced from non-league’s top tier. Does this mean the gap between the two divisions is decreasing? Or getting further apart? Relegation battles in League Two have followed a similar pattern in previous seasons. There would inevitably be one financial basket case of a club, plus a few of the smaller league teams and others who’d…

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