Match Of The Past: Preston North End
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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...
Graham Westley Discovers That Attitude May Be Just As Important As Ability
Defeat on Saturday at Sheffield Wednesday confirmed what most that have been watching them play all season had been long suspecting: that hopes of a swift return to the Championship...
Westley & Ridsdale: Together At Preston
One advantage of Peter Ridsdale and Graham Westley being together as chairman and manager respectively of Preston North End is that they may only end up annoying each other and messing...
Video Special: Six Great FA Cup Finals
It may have escaped your attention, but it is the FA Cup final on Saturday. Manchester City and Stoke City will take the pitch at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, with...
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Match Of The Week: Burnley 4-3 Preston North End
On the eighth of September 1888, on the opening day of the Football League in England, Preston North End beat Burnley by five goals to two in their first match...
At The Sharp End… Dispatches From Southend, Cardiff, Watford, Preston & Portsmouth
One of the most useful research tools for football finance writing is the “Football Management” site run by Dr. John Beech of Coventry University. Dr. Beech took ten days off...
Will Deep Debt At Deepdale Leave Preston In Deep…?
Before the news broke of a “possible offer” for Preston North End, I couldn’t quite understand why “leisure tycoon” Trevor Hemmings hadn’t bought the club months, maybe years ago. He...
The Championship – The Final Day
They’ve been stumbling, lurching and tripping on their shoelaces, but Birmingham City are a Premier League club again. As it turned out, it was a surprisingly untense day. Kevin Fahey’s...
The 20 “Most Important” Football Clubs In The World
It doesn’t do any of us any harm to occasionally remind ourselves of the sheer blustering pomposity of the biggest clubs in football. Tonight’s ambassadors for “giving the fans what...
Match Of The Week – Preston North End 1-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers
The term “sleeping giant” is a misused one, often used to describe a club that had a few glorious seasons, many years ago. If there are two clubs that deserve...