No season of Goodwill at Nottingham Forest
The refrain 'Against Modern Football' has rarely felt more relevant today following the sacking of Sean O'Driscoll by Nottingham Forest. Here, Steve Wright of the Mist Rolling in from the Trent blog...
View ArticleAre You Experienced? Old Pros in the Championship
The January transfer deadline is less than a week away now and message boards everywhere are heralding a cry for more experience to be added to Championship squads. The judicious addition of a central...
View ArticleDerby County’s Sustainable Progress Under Nigel Clough
[O]ne of our favourite club blogs in the Football League is Ollie Wright's devoted to Derby County. In many ways, this excellent site's rise to prominence has mirrored that of the football club with...
View ArticleThe Damned Forest: The ‘Real Story’ of Alex McLeish at Nottingham Forest
[A]head of its serialisation in a national newspaper, we're fortunate enough to be able to give you a sneak peek into the diary of Alex McLeish, who's had an eventful few weeks... * * * * * 23rd...
View ArticleOnce More Unto the Breach: The Football League Season Draws to a Conclusion
[T]onight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2012-13: Loan of the Season
[I]nevitably, Watford Football Club loom large in this first category of the TTU Awards. We've followed the Hornets' link up to Granada and Udinese closely over the past nine months. First, William...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2012-13: Best Kit
[B]izarrely, our best and worst kits for 2012-13 bear a superficial similarity to one another but that's a reminder that a club uniform is never a canvas to be judged on aeshetics alone. Tradition and...
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 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 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: 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: 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...
View ArticleEye Witness Assessment: Ipswich Town
[M]ick McCarthy appears to have been motivated by a key guiding principle in assembling an Ipswich Town side ready to challenge for the play-offs in 2013-14. For there are a number of players with...
View ArticleBook Review: The Nowhere Men
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...
View ArticleThe U20 World Cup, and what it means for England
[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...
View ArticleChampionship Finances: Five Key Takeaways
[O]n August 1, the peerless blog The Swiss Ramble published an invaluable presentation of the profit and loss accounts for Championship clubs in the 2011-12 season. Of course much has happened since...
View ArticleThe Death Knell for Nottingham Forest Ladies
[G]eorge Orwell once famously warned that “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever” and although it is to be hoped that the foot will eventually be lifted...
View ArticleFootball and High Speed Rail 2: The Pros and Cons
[O]ne of the more emotive of political causes in recent times has been the plan to build a new high speed rail line between London, the North of England and the Midlands; the now notorious High Speed 2...
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