A list of footballers who have played in the Premier League, Championship, League One or League Two this season with their first name beginning with the same letter as their surname. Please let me know if you are aware of any others.
Adebayo Akinfenwa (Northampton Town)
Adebayo Azeez (Wycombe Wanderers & Leyton Orient)
Ahmed Abdulla (Barnet)
Akwasi Asante (Shrewsbury Town)
Ali Al Habsi (Wigan Athletic)
Almen Abdi (Watford)
Andreas Arestidou (Morecambe)
Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal)
AntolÃn Alcáraz (Wigan Athletic)
Barry Bannan (Aston Villa)
Bartosz Bialkowski (Notts County)
Billy Bodin (Torquay United)
Brian Barry-Murphy (Rochdale)
Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest)
Christopher Chantler (Carlisle United)
Ciaran Clark (Aston Villa)
Clarke Carlisle (York City & Northampton Town)
Conor Clifford (Portsmouth & Crawley Town)
Courtney Cameron (Rotherham United)
Craig Cathcart (Blackpool)
Craig Clay (Chesterfield)
Craig Conway (Cardiff Dragons)
Craig Curran (Rochdale)
Cyrus Christie (Coventry Dragons)
Damien Delaney (Crystal Palace & Ipswich Town)
Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City)
Darryl Duffy (Cheltenham Town)
David Davis (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
David De Gea (Manchester United)
David Dunn (Blackburn Rovers)
Diego De Girolamo (Sheffield United)
Donervon Daniels (Tranmere Rovers)
Dorian Dervite (Charlton Athletic)
Ethan Ebanks-Landell (Bury)
Frank Fielding (Derby County)
Gábor Gyepes (Portsmouth)
Gaël Givet (Blackburn Rovers)
Gary Gardner (Aston Villa)
Gianluca Gracco (Dagenham & Redbridge)
Gordon Greer (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Harry Hooman (Cheltenham Town)
Heidar Helguson (Cardiff Dragons)
Jake Jervis (Portsmouth, Tranmere Rovers, Carlisle United & Birmingham City)
Come June, Football League clubs will already be outlining fitness regimes and transfer targets to
ensure a successful start to the new campaign. Along with those tried and tested methods, League
Two outfit Accrington Stanley FC have something a little bit different up their sleeve this summer:
a visit from Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama.
There are eighteen teams that spent the whole of 2011 in League Two (four teams are promoted
each season, and two are relegated). Congratulations to Shrewsbury Town, who despite missing out
in the League Two playoffs last May ended the year as the League Two side that had gained the most
points (an impressive 86) during 2011.
I nuovi arrivi regalano la vittoria allo Swindon di Di Canio Di Renato Cignoni ACCRINGTON STANLEY 0
SWINDON TOWN 2 (Jervis '38, '58 Montano) Accrington Stanley: Ian Dunbavin; Winnard Dean, Sean
Hessey, Kevin Long, Kevin McIntyre, Padraig Amond (Hatfield '45), Luca Joyce, Andrew Procto (Dobie
'65) r, Peter Murphy, Ian Craney, Kurtis Guthrie (Barnett '45) Sostituti non utilizzati:
A scarier kind of Cup knockout The Johnstone's Paint Trophy match between Accrington Stanley and
Tranmere Rovers was called off last night when Stanley defender Tom Bender suffered a head injury.
The 18-year-old was knocked unconscious in a collision with his goalkeeper Ian Dunbavin and
Tranmere striker Lucas Akins.
From Maradona's 'Hand of God' to the two-footed tackle, match officials can make or break a
team's season with their decision making and interpretation of events. Every weekend, football fans
across the world leave football grounds disgruntled at the perceived injustice their team has
received at the hands of the ref.
Just a quickie to keep y'all abreast of happenings on the domestic front, in so far as the draw
for the first round of the Capital One Cup (or the League Cup as it's also known) has been made
this morning.
With time being short before the first games kickoff, this division will be a little briefer
than the Championship and League One. As with the other divisions, not all signings have been
named, so if you notice someone, or perhaps a club that I've "missed", chances are I haven't
actually missed them, just made a decision to omit them.
When we talk of the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers that ran our football clubs as their
own fiefdoms for most of the twentieth century, there is perhaps one man that, above all others,
has come to be considered the personification of the genre: Bob Lord or, as the football writer
Arthur Hopcraft once famously described him, The Khruschev of Burnley.
It is probably fair to say that 2012 hasn't been the greatest year for British football clubs so
far, financially speaking at least. Rangers, Portsmouth, Darlington and Port Vale all languish in
administration and it is possible that others will join them. The language of the discussion of
these clubs carries many tropes that are easily identifiable, but there is one that sends a cold
chill down the spine of supporters more than any other: the possibility of a club failing to
complete its fixtures.
John Coleman's departure from the Accrington Stanley job in January after 12 years in the role
reverberated throughout Lancashire. The Liverpudlian had transformed the beleaguered Accies from a
name used to market dairy products into a serious footballing concern again, and defeat to
Stevenage in the play-off semi-final last May wipes none of the gloss from his striking
achievements.
Anyone of a certain vintage will remain those infamous astro-turf pitches at Loftus Road and
Kenilworth Road in the 1980′s. Back then, the hard, rubbery synthetic surfaces had more in common
with concrete than natural grass, with the ball bouncing higher than Per Mertesacker sitting on
Peter Crouch's shoulders while he jumps on a trampoline.
Yesterday in Plymouth, some people with lots of money demanded more money, some people with much
less money were told they were getting no more money, until the people with lots of money got more
money. This was morally indefensible. Doubtless, there will be people on hand to claim "it isn't as
simple as that.
League 2 Playoffs: The prize of beating Accrington is the final at Old Trafford
Stevenage welcome Accrington Stanley to Broadhall Way tomorrow evening in the first leg
of the League 2 playoff semi final. I use the term welcome loosely. There's nothing I want more
than for us to smash Accrington into oblivion and force them into another season in League 2.
In the end, it didn't matter what happened at Broadhall Way yesterday afternoon because
Chesterfield secured the League 2 title by beating Gillingham, therefore confirming that the
minimum position we would achieve would be 7th. With Torquay also losing in South Yorkshire against
Rotherham, Boro's point was enough to earn them 6th position and a playoff tie with Accrington
Stanley with the hope of progressing onto Old Trafford and ultimately League 1.
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Date: Friday Dec 30 2011
Ground: Edgar Street
Comp:Â League Two
Match:Â Hereford United 1 Accrington Stanley 1 HT: 1-0 Arquin 5: Evans 72
ATT:Â 2,057
Additional: Entrance £14.00, Programme £2.50
Edgar Street in pictures
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40)
Character 8, Structures/Terracing 8, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger
stadiums 7 Total 30
Filed under: Groundhopping, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, Travelog Tagged: Dudley Town, Evans Park,
Non-League, Stafford Town, west midlands regional league
Date: Friday Dec 30 2011
Ground: Edgar Street
Comp:Â League Two
Match:Â Hereford United 1 Accrington Stanley 1 HT: 1-0 Arquin 5: Evans 72
ATT:Â 2,057
Additional: Entrance £14.00, Programme £2.50
Edgar Street in pictures
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40)
Character 8, Structures/Terracing 8, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger
stadiums 7 Total 30
Filed under: Groundhopping, Non-League, Stadia, Grounds, Travelog Tagged: Dudley Town, Evans Park,
Non-League, Stafford Town, west midlands regional league
But I know for a FACT that Cesc would go there just to get out of his Arsenal 'hell'.
If I make things up like this more often do you think I could get a job as a 'journalist' with Sky
Sports?
I only ask because their Spanish 'expert' Graham Hunter, aka Sloth from the Goonies, seems to love
inventing stories and I'm sure he is highly paid for the privilege.
Only one person in this photo has a fully functioning set of knees. Can you guess which one? Image
via twitter.
Whether it's signing petitions in aid of animals or thinking about spending more time with the
oldies, this edition of Good Week/Bad Week is packed to the rafters with inspiring ideas.
Last night's Johnstones Paint Trophy tie between Accrington Stanley and Tranmere had to be
abandoned in the 39th minute when Accrington defender Tom Bender was knocked unconscious after
being accidentally twatted in the face by his own goalkeeper Ian Dunbavin as he tried to punch the
ball clear of Tranmere striker Lucas Akins, who inadvertently nudged Bender into the path of
Dunbavin's flying fist.
Liverpool winger Tom Ince will complete his move to Blackpool today.
The 19-year-old was given special permission to play 45 minutes of last night's 1-1 draw with
Latvian outfit Jelgava at Bloomfield Road, where striker Craig Sutherland scored his first Pool
goal.
Ince held talks with Pool chairman Karl Oyston afterwards and is to be confirmed as Pool's ninth
summer signing today.
What are the odds Scott Parker leaves Big Sam and joins Big Eck? Derek McGovern's Bets
of the Day
Sam Allardyce claims Margaret Thatcher killed football. He reckons Maggie stopped teachers being
paid extra money for coaching football after school and since then the quality of young British
footballers has gone Âdownhill.
On Saturday, League Two side Barnet suffered a 3-2 loss at Accrington Stanley in which player-manager Edgar Davids was sent off after a second booking. Following the match, the day got even worse for 36 Barnet fans when their bus broke down on the long trip from Lancashire to London. For an hour they waited on the side of the highway and even watched as their club's first-team bus rolled by.
FC Nordsjaelland may have routed Silkeborg IF in their match this weekend, but Michael Parkhurst
was at the front and center to helping them cruise to victory.
Parkhurst played a vital part in Nordsjaelland's early success in their 6-1 win on Saturday,
setting up the opener from the right flank in the third minute before scoring the eventual winner
three minutes later.
I never usually do New Year's resolutions, but this year I decided to give myself a six week
break off alcohol, and I'm starting to regret it already as Arsenal have already given me a couple
of reasons to drown my sorrows. Our first visit to Swansea in 30 odd years and a new ground for all
of us to tick off the 92 list (I'm now on 39).
Newcastle have been drawn away to Scunthorpe United in the second round of the Carling Cup.
Scunthorpe United got through to this stage of the competition with a 2-0 win at Accrington Stanley
on Tuesday night. The game at Scunthorpe will take place at Glanford Park during the week beginning
Monday August 22.
Accrington 0-1 Stevenage (Beardsley 89)
BBC Report | Westley Reaction
Stevenage will face Torquay United in the League 2 playoff final at Old Trafford next Saturday.
A place in League 1 is up for grabs for the winners after they beat Accrington and Shrewsbury
respectively over two legs.
Liverpool goalkeeper Dean Bouzanis is set to join Greek side Olympiakos.
It is unknown whether any deal would be a short-term measure or a permanent transfer but it is
believed Liverpool is keen on cutting the number of goalkeepers on their books.
The 20-year-old spent the 2009/10 campaign on loan to Accrington Stanley but has been appearing for
Liverpool's reserve team this season.
