TTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Premier League Preview 2014-5
[O]ur divisional previews of a year ago were so well received that we decided to go one better and offer a full set for 2014-5 even if bloggers enjoy the luxury of not being obliged to cover...
View ArticlePromotion Tales: Stoke City’s Premier League Journey
Until the weekend, the bottom three places in this season’s Premier League were occupied by the three promoted clubs from last season and there is little doubt that negotiating the chasm is a perilous...
View ArticlePromotion Tales: Blackpool in the Premier League? Yeah, right!
For the second in our narratives exploring fans differing attitudes to promotion to the Premier League, we are pleased to welcome back Chris Walker, @OneDaveBamber on twitter and the maestro behind the...
View ArticlePromotion Tales: Leicester City Lose Their Fearlessness
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...
View ArticlePromotion Tales: Reading FC and Disillusionment
Compared to the first occasion in 2006, it was with considerably less enthusiasm that I anticipated Reading Football Club’s second ever promotion to the top flight in the summer of 2012. The feeling is...
View ArticlePromotion Tales: Bradford’s City’s Top-Flight ‘Fairy Tale’
Continuing this series of posts on clubs promoted to the top-flight of English football after a considerable gap or, in some cases, the first time ever, Michael Wood turns the clock back to the year...
View ArticleThe Argument: Against Goal Line Technology
Escape To Victory was on TV at Christmas. It usually is. It’s basically a terrible film but it’s full of Ipswich Town players from the early 1980s; like many Ipswich fans, I can recite entire chunks of...
View ArticleThe Argument: Is There Too Much Football on TV?
When did being a football fan start to feel like such hard work? It’s not that there’s more football in the world than there used to be. What’s changed is the availability and exposure of it all....
View ArticleBook Review: Tunnel of Love
Tunnel of Love by Martin Hardy Published by de Coubertin Books 2016, £18.99 Writing this review before the recent mini-revival in form, defeat at the Emirates on Saturday 16th December – to an...
View ArticleBook Review: The Mixer
The Mixer by Michael Cox Published by Harper Collins 2017 Rarely does a day pass when someone in my twitter feed is seen to proclaim ‘football didn’t start in 1992 you know’ and the phrase ‘since the...
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