Notts County And The Phantom Winding Up Petition
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: League One
With the Championship starting last night, the Football League season is already underway, but League One kicks off later this afternoon. And after a season where so many sides looked...
Match Of The Week 3: Sutton United 0-2 Notts County
Evening falls over Sutton, and with it comes the final match of the Second Round of this year’s FA Cup....
The (Possibly Un)Welcome Return Of Non-League Videos Of The Week
The Football League begins its new season next weekend, but non-league football doesn’t begin again for a couple of weeks. With this in mind, it’s time to take a quick...
After Notts County: England’s Club Owners. Are They Any Good?
“Are they any good?” It’s a simple question. And it is in the top one of questions supporters should ask of bidders for football clubs. But, as the BBC’s flagship...
Panorama Has The Last Word On Notts County And Munto Finance
We have two pieces on last night’s edition of Panorama, which featured Notts County’s abortive take-over of 2009, today. Mark Murphy will be running his eyes over the show later,...
Living Colour: Ince as a Cult of Personality
In what appears to be incredibly bad timing, on the same week Professional Footballers Association Chief Executive Gordon Taylor called for the hiring of more minority managers in English football, League One...
FA Cup Match Of The Week 3: Notts County 1-1 Manchester City
To say that the relationship between Notts County and Nottingham Rugby Football Club has been transformed over the last eighteen months or so would be something of an understatement. In...
The Sordid Pleasure Of The Mass Brawl
Last night’s matches in the Football League were a carnival of goals, drama and excitement but (with the possible exception of Leeds United’s extraordinary implosion against Preston North End) the...
Match Of The Week: Aldershot Town 1-1 Notts County
Aldershot were the last Football League club to go bust during the season, and it is perhaps appropriate that Notts County, who have taken the concept of boom and bust...
Notts County & Munto Finance: The Inquest Begins
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" was the rhetorical question asked by John Lydon to the audience at the end of what turned out to be The Sex Pistols'...
Notts County Part Two: Arrivederci, Peter Trembling
So, farewell then, Peter Trembling. Disingenuous to the last. If there was one person who personified the numerous mistakes made by Notts County football club over this past year, it...
Notts County – The Morning After The Night Before
The dream that started at Notts County died today. After weeks of turbulence, many at Meadow Lane had been holding onto increasingly tenuous claims that big investment was coming into...
Lies, Damned Lies & The Words Of The “Official Club Spokesman”
As football sinks further and further into the financial mire, the official statements made by clubs themselves are becoming more and more odd, and more and more telling. Mark Murphy...
Eighteen Days Left To Save Notts County
Tick, tock, tick tock. There are eighteen days left for Notts County to find the money to stave off a winding up order brought against them by HMRC, and whether...
Football & The Media – There’s Something In The Air
The game is starting to smell rotten from the inside out, and this smell is starting to become all-pervasive to the extent that even those that have been trying to...
HMRC Go For The Jugular, And The Clubs Only Have Themselves To Blame
The cold air that is whistling through football isn't solely as a result of the recent wintry weather. HMRC are on the move, and their aim is to recoup taxpayers'...
2009 – Year Of Missing The Point
2009 was the year in which the wheels constantly threatened to come completely off football's financial wagon without actually doing so. Mark Murphy takes a look over the great and...
Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
Mark Murphy has been looking at the Notts County supporters' reaction to recent events at Meadow Lane, and he is less than impressed. But then, what else would you expect...