Conversations with Gabriel Zakuani
Today at 1pm, a group of professional athletes and celebrities aiming to use sports as a way to raise funds for charity projects in Africa and other developing countries will come together to raise...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2011-12: Best Ground
This year’s award for Best Ground just has to go to Brighton’s AMEX. The wait may have been long and tortuous for the Seagulls but their new stadium is a strong addition to the 72’s roster. It does...
View ArticleGreat Football League Teams 37: Leyton Orient 2005-06
Hot on the heels of John McGee's well-received Brighton yesterbation, Orient supporter Chris Roberts takes us back to the mid 2000s and 'that' goal at Oxford. Early in my career, I was advised never to...
View ArticleBook Review: Orientation
Orientation by Adam Michie Published by Chequered Flag Publishing 2012, £11.99 ISBN: 978-0-9569460-1-0 Our second book review of the week see Leyton Orient supporter Chris Roberts, a recent contributor...
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 ArticleRevisiting the Price of Football
[T]here comes a point in every football fan’s life when the “sod it, I’m not going moment” occurs. For some Manchester City fans, contributing £62 to Arsenal’s coffers was a step too far. For me,...
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 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 ArticleEye Witness Assessment: Leyton Orient and Preston’s Summit Meeting
[A]t the start of the 2012-13 season, blogger Chris Lines posited the theory that that year’s League One title might be there for the taking and a shot shy Sheffield United, a Doncaster which bounced...
View ArticleWe Are Going Up! Interview: Podcasting the Football League
[H]aving made a number of appearances on podcasts in recent years including Two Footed Tackle and The Tilehurst End, our founder writers Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge are perhaps inclined to go in the...
View ArticleLeyton Orient are Top at Christmas, but the Olympic Stadium Spectre Looms Large
[A]s 2013 draws to a close, one club for whom it has been, on the surface, a quite ridiculously good year have been Leyton Orient, so man opposing fans' second favourite team and a club whom we covered...
View ArticlePatrick Bamford and the Rise of the Privately-educated Footballer
[S]tewart Robson was something of an under rated footballer of the 1980s. Unfortunate to have figured most prominently for Arsenal during the dog days of the Terry Neill/Don Howe era, George Graham...
View ArticleWhich of Brentford’s Players Will Step Up?
[H]aving recently conducted a player by player analysis of Leicester City’s readiness for Premier League football, it’s clear that the exercise is a markedly different one when it comes to the process...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2013-14: Team of the Season
[A]s a collective effort, Burnley have shown the way to success within relatively limited resources. What money they have spent has been spent wisely in recent years and they have built a strong unit...
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 ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16
Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it...
View ArticleFootball Cities: London
In 2011, the company I work for chose to shut down their London office and move out of town. After much internal debate, I decided to switch with them. I had never thought I would leave the capital,...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2016-17
Accrington Stanley Regardless of whether Accrington went up last year, their team was destined to be broken up, such was their quality. With Matty Crooks and Josh Windass having already signed...
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