Getting AFC Wimbledon Fit for The Football League
[T]oday, we are delighted to welcome back Chris Lines, curator of the long established Narrow The Angle, one of the best football websites in business. Chris is a season ticket holder at AFC Wimbledon...
View ArticleDavid Beckham and Oasis: a Tale of Career Decline
[T]hey won’t like this but David Beckham’s retirement from football this week put me in mind of a bunch more readily associated with the other half of Manchester, Britpoppers Oasis. Both came to...
View ArticleGrey Skies and Silver Linings at Coventry City
[F]illing us in on the latest in the ongoing saga that is Coventry City is Tom Furnival-Adams... ... Given that Coventry City ended 2012-13 without a ground, under a transfer embargo, with a ten-point...
View ArticleSponsoring the Football League: A Short History
[W]hat’s in it for them is a common query that springs to mind when assessing football sponsorship and indeed, since the financial crisis of 2008 kicked in, one might ask the question more forcibly?...
View ArticleA Plea for a Scottish Football Pyramid
[F]or now, we should be grateful, in spite of the ravages brought about by parachute payments, that movement up and down the divisions in England is a relatively fluid process and generally based on...
View ArticleA Football League SWOT Analysis: The Strengths
[A]s the three divisions of the Football League steel themselves for life without npower and this website prepares for a month long summer break, we thought it would be appropriate to give the...
View ArticleA Football League SWOT Analysis: The Weaknesses
[O]f course by its very definition the Football League is weak – comparatively. While it’s true that West Ham and Southampton skilfully negotiated the step up to the Premier League this past year, both...
View ArticleA Football League SWOT Analysis: The Opportunities
[A]s organisations with unconventional governance structures and aims and crucially, minus shareholders, sports leagues don’t really conform to the model of a typical company, so a SWOT analysis, while...
View ArticleA Football League SWOT Analysis: The Threats
[T]he stethoscope we have applied to the Football League over the past week has revealed a not altogether satisfactory heartbeat and the fact that the weaknesses section of our study has been easily...
View Article2012-13: An Elegy
[H]aving seen our original brief cast asunder when one of our teams was promoted to the Premier League a year ago, equilibrium has been restored and it's with a mood of keen anticipation that we look...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
[W]e're baaack! Kicking off this year's look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who'll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 1 Preview
[F]ollowing yesterday's start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship....
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club Championship Preview
[T]he hubbub engulfing our League 1 and League 2 previews this week has highlighted the sensitivity of the average football fan. Now it's time for the Championship, a division in which, contrary to...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Best Loanee
[A]lright. Whose idea was it to kick off our thematic predictions with a loan category…? Do people realise that it’s still July? In defence, although the days are but early, loans have become such a...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Likely Crimes Against Football
[W]holly unsurprisingly, events at one Midlands club dominated the thinking of our band of correspondents when assessing those most likely to have a pernicious impact on the Football League throughout...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Best Free Agent
[A] look at the Professional Footballers' Association list of out of contract and available players becomes more depressing by the year, even if there are Premier League outcasts aplenty whose current...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Players to Watch
[A]s we head into the second week of our 2013-14 predictions, our focus turns to the players we deem to possess the potential to stand out amongst their peers. Whereas season previews tend to focus on...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: The Sack Race
[T]he dismissal of Lee Clark from his last job inspired our then second most read post of all time and that he clings on for grim life at Birmingham City might seem incredible. To boot, he’s been...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Trouble Ahead
[F]inancially speaking – and the majority of us did interpret ‘trouble ahead’ through a fiscal lens when discussing potential candidates – this could be a tough year for Football League clubs. With a...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Teams to Watch
[A]fter a 25-year absence, Newport County returned to the Football League in May with an extraordinary play-off final win over Wrexham. For a club who were wound up, reformed and exiled to...
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