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Is David Nugent the archetypal ‘yo-yo’ striker?
Portsmouth striker David Nugent is out-of-contract this summer and the one-time England international is keen to resolve his playing situation one way or another in the coming weeks. The former Bury trainee enjoyed a good footballing education at Gigg Lane in League Two, earning a move to Preston North End, who, at the time were…
Birmingham keep McLeish, but say promotion next season is a must
Alex McLeish has kept his job at St. Andrew’s, despite Birmingham’s last-day relegation to the Championship, but has been told by the board that he must lead the side back to the Premiership. The Blues went down, due to a defeat against Tottenham at White Hart Lane and other results not going their way, and…
Brave Blackpool Prove There’s No Room For Romance In The English Premier League
Perhaps it is because Romanticism eludes any attempt at a concise definition that it has become a term so freely tossed into the melting pot of football criticism and punditry. Like all great modern ideas (some say all great modern ideas are Romantic, but it’s probably best to ignore that debate for now), Romanticism’s is…
Goal Getter Top of the List for Ipswich Boss Jewell
Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell is desperate to get his hands on a 20-goal-a-season striker to reignite the Blues’ Championship promotion hopes for 2011/12. The Suffolk side have toiled in the absence of an out-and-out goalscorer for several seasons and it has left Town hamstrung in the midst of the Championship table for a number…
This Summer’s Best Free Transfers
Is your club completely skint? Still waiting for your Arab oil sheikh to sink billions of his black gold profits into your first team? Just like the rest of us, you’ll probably we waiting a long time. As Manchester City fans are going to find out in the next few seasons, money can’t guarantee you…
Where to now for West Ham?
West Ham are down – but not out. Here are six points suggesting how they can rebound straight back up.
Form Crucial to Championship Playoff Success
It seems that the Championship Playoff finals are often won by the team who is playing best at the end of the season. Last year, Ian Holloway masterminded a Blackpool offensive (cough) juggernaut to promotion behind Charlie Adam and against a Cardiff side who’ve developed the nasty reputation of being playoff chokers. This year, the popular picks from pundits have gone to anyone but the Bluebirds. But is there really a trend to which clubs are most successful come playoff time?
2010/2011 Championship Playoffs Prediction: Cardiff, Forest, Reading or Swansea?
In the last several years of the Championship, there has been a trend developing that I’m surprised has not been made a big deal of. Since the end of the 2005/2006 season, it has been the most unlikely team (in terms of recent history) who have gone up on the final day. Not just in…
Are Leicester City really better off under Eriksson than Sousa?
The reign of Portuguese legend Paulo Sousa will never be one remembered too fondly around the City of Leicester. A man that tried to bring a certain art of football to the Walkers Stadium was, in my view, probably not given enough time to get his ideas across, and in time, develop his players at…
Scoring Stats – Does the importance of the ‘go-to’ footballer vary between divisions?
When first examining scoring stats, we found there were big differences between how reliant individual leagues were across Europe on one player. After some more digging, we found there are significant differences between how important individual players are between Leagues across Europe: in Italy and Germany, in particular, it is important to have a spearhead…
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