Port Vale: Reserving The Right To Criticise
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Category "Clubs In Crisis"
Coventry City Win The 2012/13 Sack Race
Well, it only ended up taking three matches of the Football League season, but Coventry City became the first club to decide that enough was enough with their manager and,...
Kevin Heaneys Bankruptcy Raises More Questions Than It Answers
After everything, it was a simple tweet from BBC Cornwall that confirmed the end of Kevin Heaneys ownership of Truro City FC, but even this grand finale wasn’t what many...
Kettering Towns Torment Continues
Their brave new world wasn’t meant to turn out like this. When Kettering Town moved out of their Rockingham Road ground to the then recently vacated Nene Park, the former...
Numbers And Satisfaction On The Opening Day Of The Season
Perusing acres of statistics that can be found in newspapers on the opening weekend of the football season can be a most enlightening way to pass the couple of hours,...
Pompey’s Spider Trap: Chainrai Walks But His Web remains
It appears us Pompey fans have upset Mr Chainrai and he no longer wants to own our club. In an spate of dummy spitting of some awe-inspiring magnitude on Wednesday...
Is Push Turning To Shove At Fratton Park?
At Home Park last night, Plymouth Argyle comfortably beat a scratch Portsmouth side made up largely of youth team players by three goals to nil in the First Round of...
Port Vales Summer Of Optimism Returns To Square One
200% has observed events at Burslem from a distance over the summer, as Port Vale appeared to be slowly edging towards an exit from administration. In recent weeks, Vale have...
Sixteen Days To Save Portsmouth
The darkest hour, optimists might say, comes before the dawn, to which pessimists might counter by saying that one of English footballs longest-running financial seems to be approaching its inevitable...
Rangers: Promises, Promises
Charles Green bought the business, assets and – according to some, but not all, of paragraphs in last week’s report to creditors from administrators Duff and Phelps – the history...
It Really Isn’t What Football Fans Want to Hear?
Greg Clarke is a defender of your football club. No really. Stop snorting with derision in Pompey, Plymouth, Leeds, Wrexham, Coventry (supporters of other clubs are also available in snort-mode)...
Northwich Victoria’s Summer Of Discontent
It has been a difficult summer for Northwich Victoria Football Club, two months of ongoing rancour which remains seemingly destined to end in the eventual closure of a club that...
Rangers: Division Three Is The Place To Be… For Now
So. Farewell. Then. Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan? You would hope so after today’s overwhelming decision by Scottish Football League clubs to accept new Rangers into their third division. This...
Minus 10 – Pompey Don’t Do Summers …
… but if they did this one would be pretty much what they’d come up with. Just when you think it might brighten up another rainstorm blows through, drowning all...
Rangers: Crime, Punishment & Consequence
Last Sunday’s website statement from the Hibernian Supporters Club (“Hibs Club”) and the Rangers Supporters Trust response to it exposed a chasm in thinking on Scottish football’s current problems. Supporters...
George Rolls Out Of Kettering Town
Farewell for now, then, George. At six o’clock this evening, the Football Association issued a statement confirming that George Rolls, the former chairman of Cambridge United and Weymouth, latterly of...
Rangers Again: The Buck is Passed to the SFL
It’s been a fraught and sometimes farcical week in Scottish football, as the authorities in the SFA and SPL have been scrabbling desparately to find a solution to the Rangers...
Rangers: SPL Says No To Newco
Last weekend, there were a number of observers wondering why today’s vote on whether to accept a new “Rangers” into the Scottish Premier League next season…next month (ulp!)…was taking place...
Which Way Now For Scottish Football?
While the European Championships have been chugging along neatly in the forefront of most peoples minds over the last couple of weeks or so, football in Scotland has reached a...
Truro Citys Unexpected £700,000 Headache
The end of last summer didn’t work out too well for Kevin Heaney, the property-developing owner of Blue Square Bet South side Truro City, when his attempts to by Plymouth...