relegation

Pompey’s Freefall to Continue?

by Paul Scanling on July 24, 2010 · 3 comments

Recently rel­e­gated Portsmouth’s trou­bles are not over.  Far from it.  They may have just begun.  As some­one who has fol­lowed the whole sor­did affair since the first signs of trou­ble in the sum­mer of 2008, I can tell you it’s dif­fi­cult to type that sen­tence.  The fire sale that began with Sul­ley Muntari in July […]

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It cer­tainly doesn’t feel like every sea­son we see six dif­fer­ent teams in the Cham­pi­onship, and depend­ing what way you enter the league can often dic­tate expec­ta­tions for a club. After the weekend’s League One Play­off final, we now know the three teams that will be play­ing the Cham­pi­onship via rel­e­ga­tion from the Pre­mier­ship and […]

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Foot­ball can be cruel some times and that will be all the more appar­ent this Sun­day when one of the biggest and most impor­tant last day games in Eng­lish foot­ball his­tory takes place as, Sheffield Wednes­day take on Crys­tal Palace with both teams need­ing to gain some form of points to stay in the Championship. […]

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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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Since his takeover of New­cas­tle United in 2007, Mike Ash­ley has had a tur­bu­lent tenure as owner of the Toon Army. Ever since I left the North East to attend uni­ver­sity in Leeds, I get asked quite a lot what I think about Mike Ash­ley and why the fans have such a strong dis­like towards […]

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New­cas­tle fans must have watched Leeds United’s loss to Mill­wall in the League One play-offs and shud­dered. It was like watch­ing The Ghost of Football’s Future. Two clubs of sim­i­lar size with sim­i­larly rau­cous fans, they are teams that by rights should never expe­ri­ence rel­e­ga­tion from the top flight, let alone into League One. But […]

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