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Birmingham City and Due Diligence 27 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
[L]ast week, one of our founding bloggers sat down in an attempt to make head or tail of the ownership and financial situation at Birmingham City Football Club; a topic we last explored a little over ...
Eye Witness Assessment: Coventry City and Sorry Sixfields 26 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
[T]he great surrealist filmmaker, Luis Buñuel would have relished the scenes at Northampton’s Sixfields stadium on Sunday as Coventry City staged their second League 1 fixture of the 2013-14 season. S...
Undisclosed Fees are Warping Football 24 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
[Y]esterday, Queen’s Park Rangers brought Matt Phillips to London. In the past twelve months, the 22 year old winger has been eclipsed somewhat by the arrival on the scene of teammate Tom Ince, while ...
Great Football League Teams 44: Gillingham 1999-2000 21 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
[N]umber 44 of our Great Teams sees us return to the turn of the Millennium, a year which has not yet featured among our selections although David Moyes' Preston North End dynasty were Champions of Di...
Have Football’s Boo Boys Gone Too Far? 19 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
[I]t may have taken half an hour of the hors d’oeuvre clash between Porto and Napoli, but the largely partisan home crowd at Arsenal’s showpiece season opening ‘Emirates Cup’ have finally found a reas...
The U20 World Cup, and what it means for England 15 Aug 2013 | 10:16 am
[O]n Tuesday, England produced a highly encouraging 6-0 win over the auld enemy at Under-21 level. It has been, however, a miserable summer for the Three Lion Cubs. Here, our resident expert on youth ...
Buenos Dìaz: Oxford and the Third Best Manager in the World 13 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
[F]iroz Kassam was in a quandary in November 2004. Of all the managers he’d appointed since buying Oxford United for £1 five years previously, the latest, Graham Rix, was arguably the worst. Since his...
The Shadow of Gus Poyet Hangs Over Brighton 12 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
[W]hen we reflected on the potential of Brighton & Hove Albion with Sam Swaffield of The Seagull Love Review fanzine in March, little did we foresee what a traumatic few months it would be down Falmer...
Book Review: The Nowhere Men 11 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin Published by Century 2013, £14.99 [T]hey are a mythical breed, not to say a forgotten one in these days where youtube videos are said to inspire signings, but, in an ...
Middlesbrough: New Season; Same Old Problems 9 Aug 2013 | 10:58 am
[W]hen we started The Two Unfortunates back in 2009, one of our formative influences was Mike Baker, purveyor of Smog Blog, a site devoted to all things Middlesbrough FC. Like Teesside's favourite del...
