Sheffield

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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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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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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After win­ning 2–0 on Tues­day night, Gareth South­gate was relieved of his duties as man­ager hours after the game. Despite being quite a pop­u­lar player for the club, South­gate could never quite get the same level of sup­port in his time as man­ager; despite a num­ber of hard­ships being put on him such as the […]

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