Those We Have Lost: Fellows Park, Walsall FC
In 1990, Walsall became one of the first clubs of the modern era to leave their home for pastures new, when they departed Fellows Park for the Bescot Stadium. Tom...
Supporters Direct Lose Their Funding
Football is a passionate sport. It’s played by passionate people, and followed by passionate people, and without such people, the sport would not thrive the way that it does –...
The Importance Of Retaining The Football Creditors Rule
With the club season completed with Swansea City’s victory in the Championship Play-Off final, and only a handful of European Championship qualifiers to go on the continent this evening, the...
Hereford & Torquay: Inconsistent Punishments For The Same Crime
I’m not generally a fan of points deductions, as they are the one punishment guaranteed to punish the club as an entity (as well as the players and fans), without...
Celebrating Football’s Greatest Chairman
With the recent protests against the government so far peaking with half a million protestors marching with the TUC to Hyde Park last Saturday, we have decided here at twohundredpercent...
Twenty-Five Years Of When Saturday Comes
Disclaimer: As some of you will already be aware, Twohundredpercent was fortunate enough to win a gold medal – a metaphorical one, we should point out, not a real one...
The Premier League v Karen Murphy: Who Would Be The Real Winners?
Tomorrow, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is due to pass on her view to the ECJ judges on the case of the Media Protection Services...
Why Blackpool Had To Be Fined For Fielding Their Reserves
In what may be seen as slightly surprising news, the FA Premier League fined Blackpool £25,000 for fielding an under-strength side. The slight surprise was that, in fining the Seasiders,...
Match Of The Midweek 1: West Bromwich Albion 1-3 Blackburn Rovers
To the outsider, Blackburn Rovers had always been one of the more stable Premier League clubs. However, since the arrival of Indian Poultry giants Venky’s last month, the off-field business...
The Twohundredpercent Vault: FA Cup Replays And The Winter Break
Normal service will resume later today here on Twohundredpercent, but in the meantime here is our final article from the site’s archive. With the FA Cup Third Round just around...
A Culture Of Abuse: Striking For Respect
In the second in the series of issues relating to abuse within the sport, Rob Freeman looks at the causes of this weekends proposed strike amongst Scottish referees. Yesterday, the...
Is the award of a 3-0 win a suitable punishment?
On Friday, UEFA announced the punishments for the abandonment of the Italy-Serbia European Championship Qualifier. As expected, Serbia did not get off lightly. The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) were...
International Match of the Week: Czech Republic 1-0 Scotland
For the first 100 years or so of football’s history, there were very few tactics, and most of these revolved around the 2-3-5 formation. In the 1950s, the success of...
Non-League Week: Bromsgrove Get A Sporting Chance
As we get ready to enter Non-League Day, we are nearing the beginning of the end of a farcical ten month period in the history of football in the Worcestershire...
The Premier League Previews 2010/11, Part 20: Wolverhampton Wanderers – Age Before Beauty?
For a team that won three league titles in the 1950s, and has four FA Cup wins to it’s name, last season was as good as it’s been for a...
The Premier League Previews 2010/11, Part 18: West Ham United – Owner Over-Occupied?
It’s been an interesting few years when you look at the financial side, and the stewardship of West Ham United. When the club were last relegated in 2003, chairman Terence...
The Premier League Previews 2010/11, Part 17: West Bromwich Albion – Haven’t We Been Here Before?
It feels like we’ve been here before. West Bromwich Albion are promoted back to the Premier League, and have played some beautiful football to get here. Having spent eight seasons...
The Football League Previews 2010/11 – Part 3: The Championship
In the last of three twohundredpercent Football League season previews (compiled before tonight’s match between Norwich City and Watford), Rob Freeman previews the Championship, predicts one of the relegated Premier...
The Football League Previews 2010/11 – Part 2: League One
In the second part of the twohundredpercent Football League season previews, Rob Freeman takes a look at League One, and predicts good times for two of the striped clubs, more...
The Football League Previews 2010/11 – Part 1: League Two
In the latest of the twohundredpercent season previews, Rob Freeman takes his first look at the Football League starting at it’s basement, and predicts good times for two of the...