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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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Am I Reading This Right? Royals Into 5th Round — Motivation Phenomenon

by Rob McCluskey on January 23, 2010 · 3 comments

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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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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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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Roy Keane’s team record overdue victory: how important has Reading V Ipswich become?

by Rob McCluskey on November 3, 2009 · 0 comments

Any­body could tell you that Ipswich Town’s 1–0 vic­tory over fel­low strug­glers Derby on Sat­ur­day was a vital result. Defeat or another draw from the team and the alarm bells may of been ring­ing fran­ti­cally at Port­man Road, but 15 games into the 09/10 sea­son and the Suf­folk out­fit have finally put a win on […]

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