First up in our recommended reading for this week is a fascinating piece from Oxford United blog, The Boys from Up the Hill:

Luke McCormick: Another Fine Mess, The Boys from Up the Hill ^[1]

The moral conundrum that presents itself when your club signs a player with a dark past is not easily solvable. Here, the decision is explained as yet more evidence of the flagrant disregard the Oxford board are showing for their fans - creating a problem where none existed before and adding to the swirl of disappointment currently engulfing a team that had started 2012-13 so promisingly ^[2]. Football is fast becoming an ethical Bermuda Triangle.

We need to change for the sake of stability, Millers Mad ^[3]

David Rawson was the author of two of our most striking posts of last year, including a baleful lament on the arrival of Steve Evans in South Yorkshire ^[4]. Here, he calls into question the aggressive Scot’s insistence on perpetual revolution at the New York Stadium. It’s a very well written missive, as we’ve come to expect from David.

Stan Collymore - a riposte, TwitLonger ^[5]

Paul Sarahs is the journalist behind twitter account @wanchope_dickov ^[4] and during the week, he became involved in a spat with Stanley Victor Collymore, once of Liverpool and a host of other teams and now a pundit generally considered to be a cut above the usual. Still, this didn’t stop the former Southend United hero from indulging in an anti-intellectual tirade - Sarahs’ response is notable for its measured and disarming nature, and although it’s sprinkled with a touch of mea culpa, one feels he’s the one in the right.