

Articles tagged with "the-championship"
Wolverhampton Wanderers Sold For 10 Pounds
By Nick | May 21st, 2007Well, they weren't really (but then they were). It seems a crisp ten pound note has secured the ownership of Wolves for one time ...
Sheffield United Fans Have Very Little to Smile About Right Now
By Nick | May 21st, 2007Still coming to terms with their agonizing last day relegation out of the Premier League (and future appearance in this Championship blog), Blades followers ...
Leeds Fans Let Their Frustrations Known as They Look to League One
By Nick | May 2nd, 2007Oops... Yet I can sympathise with their raw emotions... The club looks up the creek.
Takin' This Show on the Road
By Nick | April 26th, 2007I'm travelling home to the Land of My Fathers shortly, and while visiting hope to reclaim my British accent, eat plenty if pies with gravy ...
Plymouth Argyle's Ian Holloway is Undoubtedly 'The Man'
By Nick | April 25th, 2007Further evidence if you please...
A Short Documentary Chronicling a Match Night at QPR's Loftus Road
By Nick | April 24th, 2007Top quality. No dialog. Support your local team...
Going Up to the Promised Land?
By Nick | April 24th, 2007A thoroughly enjoyable Championship season has come down to the final two games -- with three clubs locked together to earn the precious two ...
Lamenting the Generic Feel of the Modern Football Stadium Once More
By Nick | April 23rd, 2007Are all of these new McStadiums progress? Depends on who you ask I suppose...
One of the Greatest Goals in Norwich City's History
By Nick | April 20th, 2007This is still one of my favorite strikes of all time -- and the way he celebrated was class too...
A Football League Rivalry -- Norwich City vs. Ipswich Town
By Nick | April 20th, 2007England's East Anglian derby comes again on Sunday when Norwich welcome Ipswich to Carrow Road with it's alleged delicious pies. There's usually an edge between ...
Disgraces to the Game (Part 1) -- Preston North End's Plastic Pitch
By Nick | April 19th, 2007I'd almost forgotten when these sprang up in English football...
Plymouth's Ian Holloway Does What He Can to Help His Player Adapt to England
By Nick | April 18th, 2007Can there be any better way to smooth the transition between Hungarian and English life, than to visit a car boot sale? Ian Holloway certainly ...
Lamenting the Generic Feel of the Modern Football League Stadium
By Nick | April 18th, 2007In a few years robots will be employed to sit down during football matches... (sigh).
Derby County Keeper Sees Red -- Gets a 'Talking To' From the Fuzz
By Nick | April 15th, 2007IPSWICH TOWN... Booked: Wright, Jeffers, Harding, Haynes. Sent Off: Bruce. DERBY COUNTY... Booked: Oakley, Edworthy, Jones, Leacock, Mears, Howard. Sent Off: Bywater. REFEREE: LEFT GAME WITH ARM INJURY DUE TO CONSTANT ...
Some Football League Fortunes
By Nick | April 12th, 2007* Wherever they are next season, Sunderland will back Roy Keane's ambitions... * Flat broke Boston United find themselves with only 12 sets of legs ...
It's All About the Pride of the Shirt -- #7. Leeds United
By Nick | April 12th, 2007Leeds United might have worn all white in hope of emulating Real Madrid (chosen in 1961 exactly for this reason) -- but that's surely ...
Entering Luton Town's Ground Through a Street Full of Houses
By Nick | April 11th, 2007Quite literally it seems...
Scenes From Luton Town -- A Town Called Malice
By Nick | April 11th, 2007My only question of the events surrounding Luton Town is if you supposedly paid agents money for players -- why wouldn't you insist on players ...
Poor Luton Town Fans Might Soon be on Suicide Watch
By Nick | April 11th, 2007It's been a very bad few months for Luton Town and it might be hard for their fans to keep their levity. Let's list ...
Discipline, Or the Lack Thereof
By Nick | April 11th, 2007After reading about the Chester City chairman's bit of bother with the authorities today, I stumbled upon the English FA's rather long list ...
Football League Ground of the Week - Barnsley FC's Oakwell Stadium
By Nick | April 10th, 2007Let's be honest, it looks more like a Football Ground than a Football Stadium - but I appreciate the effort to 'sex the place up'. ...
Into the Auld Onion Bag! (Apologies) -- It's the Championship Goals of the Week
By Nick | April 9th, 2007Southend's English Striker Freddy Eastwood Might Play for His Country (But Not His Actual Country)
By Nick | April 6th, 2007As a proud Welshman the desperate state of my national team pains me right now - and it'll take more than a couple of ...
Niall Quinn Might Have to Dig Deeper into his Disco Pants' Pockets
By Nick | April 4th, 2007It's been a stunning turnaround for Sunderland. After a month of the season they were rock bottom and desperately searching for a manager to ...
Football League Stadium of the Week -- Sunderland AFC's Stadium of Light
By Nick | April 3rd, 2007There's little doubt that the Black Cats' 49,000 all seater is Premiership worthy - and with the help of Niall Quinn's disco pants they just ...
He Shoots! He Scores! -- It's the Championship Goals of the Week
By Nick | April 2nd, 2007New "Wemberley" (Singing) Will Host The Football League Playoffs
By Nick | March 30th, 2007The only group of people sad about the Football League playoffs returning to Wembley Stadium are likely the business community of Cardiff. And perhaps ...
More Football League Mascot Mild Amusement -- Meet Southend United's 'Sammy the Shrimp'. Post Courtesy of the International Break
By Nick | March 30th, 2007This shrimp just seems way too happy. Suspiciously like a person in a fuzzy shrimp suit on a serious LSD trip. For some inexplicable reason, ...
Meet Preston North End and English Hero -- David Kevin Nugent
By Nick | March 29th, 2007
There's nothing like a group of teammates to aid the process of you maintaining a reasonably sized ego, when you've just marked your England ...
Preston Built Sir Tom Finney a Statue For His Surfing Footballing Legacy
By Nick | March 29th, 2007
It's much more elegant than Southampton's recent statue debacle -- yet it oddly looks like he's surfing to me. Either that, or pitch drainage was ...





