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What Parachute Payment Changes Mean To The Football League

by Rob McCluskey on May 11, 2010 · 2 comments

If you have seen the news recently regard­ing para­chute pay­ments, you may have also heard that many clubs orig­i­nally were against the pro­posal, mainly those who were in league’s one and two. It could appear that the foot­ball league has some­what been bul­lied into accept­ing this offer, and the impli­ca­tions of such a deal could […]

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Being A Football Fan Can Be A Fickle Old Folly

by Rob McCluskey on February 1, 2010 · 1 comment

In Europe, fol­low­ing a foot­ball team can be a lot like gain­ing another sib­ling. You even see in places like Argentina, where money is scarce, peo­ple will come out to see their team and live every moment of their sea­son no mat­ter what. And that state­ment is never truer if you sup­port a team in […]

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The Damned (Scunny) United: Clough On Watch, But Why?

by Rob McCluskey on January 9, 2010 · 13 comments

In a week­end hit by weather mis­ery here in the UK thanks to the government’s clear lack of con­tin­gency, Derby did man­age to get their game against Scun­thorpe United kicked off but in hind­sight would rather they’d fol­lowed the lead of many of the other Eng­lish clubs deci­sion. The Irons bat­tered Derby 4–1 at Pride Park […]

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January Transfer Window: What Will Happen?

by Rob McCluskey on January 6, 2010 · 0 comments

I remem­ber when the Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow first came to foot­ball. For­give me if I can’t remem­ber the exact year but I remem­ber FIFA decided that it was a good idea to help all the small clubs hold onto their top play­ers for larger parts of a sea­son. Nobody could have pre­dicted the level of […]

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My Favourite Football Moment Of The Decade

by Rob McCluskey on December 31, 2009 · 1 comment

I was look­ing around a few sites, par­tic­u­larly read­ing all the arti­cles on epltalk.com that have recently been posted and they have been look­ing back over what has been an amaz­ing decade for foot­ball. You can go to any sports related web­site and you will have an abun­dance of crit­ics and experts telling you what […]

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The Championship: Halfway There

by Rob McCluskey on December 26, 2009 · 6 comments

Unless your team was unfor­tu­nate enough to be struck by bad weather (par­tic­u­larly Barns­ley), you may realise we are now at the halfway point of the Cham­pi­onship sea­son. 23 games gone and all of sud­den ambi­tions become a bit clearer for clubs. The cham­pi­onship can be one of the most excit­ing leagues in the world […]

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Newcastle V Middlesbrough Preview: The Biggest North East Derby Of The Season

by Rob McCluskey on December 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Apolo­gies for a lack of updates lately, with the amount of work I’ve been doing lately my life mir­rors the ‘con­gested hol­i­day fix­ture list’! Unfor­tu­nately this week­end we have once again dis­cov­ered that the UK is the only coun­try more effi­cient in a world war than being in a snow ‘storm’. Early sea­son pro­mo­tion favourites […]

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