Nottingham

In a sea­son where the pas­sion and rel­e­vance of the Eng­lish F.A cup have been in ques­tion, one team defies the odds and shows a true cup spirit. Of course I am refer­ring to Read­ing, the team who have become all to famil­iar to foot­ball fans around the world after deservedly knock­ing out Liv­er­pool in […]

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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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I remem­ber sit­ting this year in antic­i­pa­tion of the 3rd round draw as per usual after watch­ing Ket­ter­ing bat­tle to a draw against Leeds United I had a feel­ing that this could be a draw to remem­ber. My mate who sup­ports Brighton had seen his team qual­ify to the third round as a league 1/2 […]

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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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Unless you only pre­fer to read the opin­ions of actual cel­e­brated and well-recognised fig­ures in foot­ball, you’ve prob­a­bly come across Stan Collymore’s ludacris pro­posal to “make the Pre­mier­ship bet­ter”. If you can’t be both­ered to read through it (and I don’t blame you), Col­ly­more basi­cally thinks around 20–25 teams who he believes to have the […]

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