The Monday Profile: Ricardo Vaz Tê
Bloated Premier League squads need ballast and amid the burnt ends of Match of the Day episodes, the fleeting few minutes of highlights from the KC, Molineux or DW Stadiums have been notable for their...
View ArticleThe Cost of going to Football: a possible solution
The success of Starbucks, Costa and Caffè Nero in recent years underlines perhaps more than anything Britain’s ignorance as a coffee appreciative nation and football fans forced to once again imbibe...
View ArticleThe Monday Profile: Kallum Higginbotham
For our profile this week, we welcome back Craig Telfer, author of a deservedly well received post recently identifying those players in Scotland who might attract the attention of NPower League Clubs...
View ArticleThe PFA Awards: Stuff and Nonsense?
[O]nce upon a time, the PFA Awards were the undisputed measure of a season’s most valuable players. Voted for by the Professionals themselves, the response to their announcement was one of awed hush...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2011-12: Bargain Buy of the Season
The list of nominees was long for the second in our eponymous yearly awards. Joe Mason, a regular starter and scorer for Cardiff; Kevin Nolan, hardly cheap, but still value for money; Rhoys Wiggins,...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2011-12: Young Player of the Season
A couple of the nominees for this year’s best young player – Jordan Rhodes and Matt Phillips – have been so well tracked by the blogosphere that any further attempt to describe their abilities is...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2011-12: Player of the Season
Of all the categories in this year’s awards, the most clear cut winner was Rickie Lambert. The barrel chested scouser swept all before him in 2011-12 and how heartening it was to see this 30 year old...
View ArticleWeighing in on the Price of Football
[P]oliticians like to talk about the squeezed middle - a concept that focus groups tell them plays well to a hard-working and hard-pressed often middle class demographic who have done nothing wrong...
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 ArticleTTU Awards 2012-13: Manager of the Season
[O]f all the categories this year, our opinion formers were most divided on this. Sure, the collection of silverware is all important but it's as much about the raw materials and how far they are...
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: 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 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 ArticleKeith Hill and the ‘never go back’ maxim
[T]hese quiet mid-January weeks used to be devoted to anticipation while we waited between rounds 3 and 4 of the FA Cup and if many will have you believe that matters Premier League and transfer window...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 1 Preview 2014-5
[W]hen asked by the esteemed editors of this site to compile a preview to the League One season I had to first humbly remind them that my own team, Carlisle United, were cruelly and indignantly...
View ArticleSemi Final Memories: Cardiff City 2008
This Saturday, Reading will take the field against Arsenal in the club’s first FA Cup Semi Final since 1927 against a team that has scored no fewer than 16 goals against the Royals in the three most...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club League 1 Preview 2015-16
Barnsley 2014-15 did not go to plan for Barnsley. Freshly relegated from the Championship and adorned with an array of shiny new signings, a promotion push was on the cards. But an unconvincing start...
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 ArticleBook Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Richard Foster Published by Ockley Books 2017 It was entirely remiss of us not to have reviewed Richard Foster’s The Agony and the Ecstasy on its initial release in 2015,...
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