Match Of The Past: Leicester City
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Eriksson’s Departure Hints At Another Transitional Season For Leicester
Like many celebrities these days, Sven Goran Eriksson has come to be known by his first name alone. Eriksson has one other thing in common with many others at the...
Match Of The Week: Ipswich Town 3-0 Leicester City
Winter came to visit us at the end of last week, and the out-stretching of his boney fingers was more like that of the Grim Reaper than of Jack Frost,...
One Leicester Shuffle: The Continuing Adventures Of Milan Mandaric
At first glance, Leicester City’s latest takeover looks like the standard modern football ownership deal. A heady mix of over-ambition, multi-million pound transfer budget promises and “the Premiership within five...
When Wycombe Made The FA Cup Semi-Finals
It's the FA Cup First Round this weekend so, in the first of five pieces about the Oldest Cup Competition In The World (and there's a phrase that is probably...
Sending Off Goalkeepers: Not As Much Fun As It Used To Be
When Petr Cech was sent off for Chelsea on Saturday, the London club suffered more for being reduced to ten men than they did for losing their goalkeeper. In the...
Brian Little – Slow Decline Or Varied Career?
If you watch a match this afternoon, take a moment if possible to look into the eyes of your manager. If your team is winning you may think that you...
10 Footballing Cricketers (And Vice Versa)
Seeing as how the Ashes have started and England aren’t – at the time of writing – being thrashed seven shades of black and blue by Australia (though there is...
Match Of The Week: Peterborough United 2-0 Leicester City
It’s Saturday lunchtime and England are playing later on this afternoon, but you wouldn’t know it in Peterborough. The top two divisions don’t have matches scheduled so that England can...
Scenes From Football History – 1982/83: How Fulham Blew It
From the mid-1960s on, football grew massively as a passive spectator sport. The realisation that football could evolve as a spectator sport for people that weren’t even at the match...
A Brave New World
Whilst noble in principle, the Abercrombie Report could hardly now be described as having been an unqualified success. The report, which advocated the mass decampment of a million and a...