Down the Southern Road: Angels & Demons
Residents of the American South live alongside the spirits of their past, both good and bad. With a history tempered by a Laissez les bon temps rouler approach to life...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group D Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks we are taking the time to bring you...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group C Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks we are taking the time to bring you...
Those We Have Lost: The Dell, Southampton
Tom Tully surely performed a double take when he happened upon the match report from Southampton’s final stand at The Dell. Having written so many tales of glory for Roy...
Hopelessly Romantic: Remembering Works Teams
When a football legend parts from the game either through retirement or death, ink splatters as tributes are furiously written to consider the man’s style of play, his memorable moments on the pitch,...
Down The Southern Road: A Tactical Adjustment
To put things bluntly, Baton Rouge have stumbled mightily at the start of this summer’s Premier Development League campaign. Although the capital club is not alone, with 2010 champions Portland U-23...
1860 Munich Appear In the Clear, But Is 50+1?
It has come to pass, then, that German football sees its first Arab investor with last week’s announcement that Hasan Ismaik bought a 49% ownership stake in 1860 Munich. The thirty-four year old Jordanian...
Down the Southern Road: A Bumpy Start
If off-season alterations surrounding the 2011 Premier Development League campaign for Baton Rouge were not apparent before, this weekend saw both the squad and its supporters face them properly. After two...
Robins Gamble on a Dux
When last we left Swindon Town, the Robins were putting the finishing touches on a lamentable 2010/11 campaign that saw them relegated from League One and undergoing the process of disassembly. Beneficent chairperson Andrew...
Down The Southern Road
Once the trophies have been lifted in emphatic triumph then dropped by players unaccustomed to using their hands, the victors’ confetti is swept aside along with the memories of the previous season to open an extended...
Tangled Up in Blue: 1860 Munich Has a New Challenge
One of the best lines from that cinematic masterpiece Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, is “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” While not entirely apt, denizens at Maine...
Dutch Treat in South Wales: Swansea & Total Football
In general, the phrase “total football” rolls off the tongue as easily as “fiery Welshman Craig Bellamy” and often conjures images of marauding fullbacks flying to spaces ludicrously-high up the...
A Blueprint for Premier League Survival
Naturally, there is no firm set of initiatives every club could implement to ensure it consolidates in the top flight after winning promotion from the Championship. Were there such an identifiable formula,...
Triumph of the Middle Class?
As another Premiership campaign winds down, most of the attention turns to those pitched battles near the bottom of the table, where clubs play a game of Musical Chairs to see who...
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Robins Could Be Rocked Again
Over the fortnight Sheffield Wednesday supporters should be feeling relieved and maybe still a touch groggy from imbibing a few drinks for the dink. Having been frustrated until recently by the form of...
Do They Still Make Millwall Bricks?
That may very well be too loaded a question to ask, or perhaps it is being asked in ignorance given recent fan violence between Lions and QPR supporters, but in...
Fight Against The Nothing
One of the joys of having younger children is you can sometimes indulge in the guilty pleasure of revisiting films from your own childhood without appearing foolish in the extreme. Well,...
A Man for Their Seasons: Pat Jennings and the North London Derby
As we approach another iteration of the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, rival supporters could perhaps be forgiven for spewing forth a bit extra vitriol to relieve the increased feelings of tension. Each...
When Relegation Is Preferable: The Fight for FC St. Pauli’s Soul
Wearing denim jeans and a black T-shirt emblazoned with the Jolly Roger skull and crossbones so closely associated with the Kult Club’s supporters, FC St. Pauli’s manager Holger Stanislawski appears in...