Sacred cows: Martin O’Neill
A new series offering a different take on some of football’s most exalted reputations. … For the first time in his managerial career, Martin O’Neill appears under pressure. Next Monday marks the first...
View Article5 Football League Players Coming to a World Cup Television Near You
In the run up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, we ran a series of profiles of Football League players who had been named in their countries’ squads. Hence, the likes of Middlesbrough’s Rhys...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Championship Preview 2014-5
Following on from John McGee’s freeform assessment of League 1 yesterday, here is a somewhat more plodding assessment of the level above. That, however, is no reflection on the ins and outs of this...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club Premier League Preview 2015-16
Rounding off this year’s week of divisional previews we profile English football’s top-flight which – for all its predictability – will no doubt offer plenty of high-drama during the course of the...
View ArticleNewcastle United are Going Down but Looking Up
Saturday 7th May. A leisurely, idyllic afternoon spent at the open-air thermal spa-heated pool at our campsite in southern Tuscany. The skies, which had been cloudless and brilliantly blue for days,...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club Championship Preview 2016-17
We are back for a new season and one in which we hope to post more regularly and where we intend on introducing some new features while exploring the most important themes that impact upon the game, be...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Week: Mental Health and Elite Football
Last Wednesday, with this article already taking shape, it was revealed that Everton winger Aaron Lennon had been detained by police under the Mental Health Act. The Merseyside club subsequently...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Week: Retirement – Game Over?
As part of my piece on mental health and elite football posted on this site on Tuesday, I outlined some of the key stressors characteristic of the tough, intensely pressurised and volatile world of the...
View ArticleFrom EFL to EDL: Far Right Extremism’s Pollution of Football
As readers of this website will know, we provide vigorous support of football fans’ power for good and in this, hope to have followed in the footsteps of organisations such as the Football Supporters...
View ArticleThe Two Unfortunates Health Checks: Ipswich Town
It may surprise people when I say that I haven’t felt so positive about my football club since the Millennium. Ipswich Town are bottom of the Championship and heading for third tier football for the...
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