Barnet drop out of the Football League and into the unknown is a post from: Just Football
by Tom Furnival-Adams
When Edgar Davids reflects upon his football career, his 36-game spell at Barnet will surely be one of the most memorable periods not, albeit, for the same reasons as his Champions League-winning stint with Ajax, or his contribution to three Serie A titles while at Juventus.
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.
Edgar Davids made his debut for his 'local' side Barnet last night, a week after joining the Bees as player/coach making his first competitive start for over two years and generally looking a cut above in Barnet's emphatic 4-0 win over Northampton at Underhill last night.
Newly appointed League Two Player/Coach and Champions League Winner Edgar Davids made a winning return to the pro-ranks as he inspired the Bees to a 4-0 win over Northampton last night to register Barnet's first League win of the season.
The 39 year old Dutchman wearing his famous goggles even captained his side for his first competitive game since togging out for Crystal Palace in a 3-0 defeat to Swansea on October 30 2010.
[T]onight, Watford travel to Leicester City at the onset of a nail biting weekend of Football League fixtures. With a great many issues still hanging in the balance, our two founding bloggers, Lloyd and Lanterne Rouge convened to discuss the prospects: ... Lanterne Rouge: As a Plymouth fan, you've mentioned to me that you are still worried about the drop - it's quite possible mathematically but will take a chain reaction of perhaps sub-nuclear proportions for Argyle to go down to the Football League.
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)
[T]his year's League Two relegation battle is quite remarkable. Not just for the closeness of thefight, but for the teams involved. All bar one have recently spent time in the Conference and all bar one have gained promotion to the League since two-up two-down was introduced from non-league's top tier.
[W]ith ten games or less remaining for virtually every Football League side, most supporters have a pretty good idea of what the next few months holds in store for their team: a promotion push; mid-table obscurity; or a fight against relegation. Honing in on the bottom of League Two, a small but significant five point gap has opened up between Bristol Rovers and Barnet in positions 17 and 18 respectively, leaving seven teams adrift and in danger of playing non-league football next season.
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.
So Football is officially dead then – beside images of sideburns, NHS celebrations, Kenneth
Branagh in a top hat, a Somali-born hero, David Rudisha, the lightning bolt and the tranquil
surrounds of 'Eton Dorney', the game has lost its sheen – embattled as it was when Freddie
Flintoff inspired an Embrace song in 2005 and Jonny drop kicked that ball two years before.
Playing tiki-taka with the interwebs Antonio Nocerino not impressed at how long it takes AC Milan team-mate Mario Balotelli to get dressed [101GG] Matt Le Tissier makes his Guernsey debut [BBC] Get your custom-made Barnet coffin [Pies] Arsene Wenger's entirely fictional congrulations to Robin Van Persie on winning the title [Dirty Tackle] Liverpool [.
Feeling queasy at the increased commercialisation of football is an experience common to us all, but a definite ‘if you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em' mood has prevailed in recent years. Indeed, sponsorship has become yet another facet of the game to get nostalgic about – a marvellous post at the Football Attic recently confirmed the fact that certain advertisers seem to ‘suit' certain clubs.
Here's something: The Two Unfortunates has a piece on Wycombe Wanderers managers, and of course
this little group contains one Lawrie Sanchez:
"Part-Mafioso, part Churchillian leader, Lawrie's astonishing assuredness throughout the run was
hugely inspiring to players and fans – he never for a second seemed in doubt that we could win
the whole damned thing"
A lot of Fulham fans didn't like the cut of Sanchez's jib.
Here's something: The Two Unfortunates has a piece on Wycombe Wanderers managers, and of course
this little group contains one Lawrie Sanchez:
"Part-Mafioso, part Churchillian leader, Lawrie's astonishing assuredness throughout the run was
hugely inspiring to players and fans – he never for a second seemed in doubt that we could win
the whole damned thing"
A lot of Fulham fans didn't like the cut of Sanchez's jib.
It always used to be one of English football's more idiosyncratic, an underground train on the Northern Line, emerging from the darkness and speeding through the identikit suburbia of North London to High Barnet. Once alighted from the train, you are thrust into a world of curious angles. The steep hill into the town centre to one side, and the curiously vertiginous sloping pitch of Underhill straight ahead.
There was always something inherently contradictory about Stan Flashman. He is, perhaps, bestÂ
remembered as the "King Of The Touts" (often with the prefix "Self-Styled" attached to it), but
when he craved respectability he would rebrand himself as a "Ticket Broker." Ultimately, though, he
himself stated that he didn't care what he was called as long as the money was right.
[I]f you,as a football fan, recognise the shortcomings of 4-4-2 (the system, not the magazine), then that leaves you a few genes short of being a 'proper bloke' and certainly unpatriotic in the extreme. Here, we welcome back John Dobson, a regular chronicler of Yorkshire football, to point out how fan pressure must not be allowed to hold sway atBootham Crescent.
One of the highlights of our Turmoil Week series of posts back in January was Tom Bourne's analysis
of the financial shenanigans at Port Vale, although Valiants fans will have been little cheered.
Since then, events at Vale Park have become yet more labyrinthine and uncertainty remains ahead of
Barnet's visit tomorrow afternoon.
This week, Barnet Football Club turned once again to an old hand. Here, Tim Fletcher provides his
reaction: Who did you say we've appointed? It is perhaps typical of the lot of a Barnet supporter
that the moment you go on holiday and beyond reach of a mobile phone, let alone the internet, that
once again we have an end of season change of manager.
The final piece of our end of season round-up casts us towards League Two, often a proving
ground for exciting new managers and players – but how well did my predictions pan out?
Promoted
Actual – Swindon Town, Shrewsbury Town, Crawley Town, Crewe Alexandra
[O]nce upon a time, the PFA Awards were the undisputed measure of a season's most valuable players.
Voted for by the Professionals themselves, the response to their announcement was one of awed hush
and consent – how could mere onlookers presume to know better than those involved in the rough
and tumble of the actual sport?
Arsenal Announce NextGen Squad by AH Arsenal have announced their 32 man squad, that will take
place in this season's NextGen Competition, which is the new Europe-wide competition for Under
19′s, which by rights Arsenal should do very well in considering the wealth of young talent at
our disposal! The full Arsenal 32-man squad is; [.
It's always a difficult time for a football club when a manager leaves unless that manager is Steve
Evans. The mascara-wearing convicted tax fraudster has left Crawley Town to join their League Two
rivals Rotherham. And his former players couldn't be happier. The squad decide they're "gonna
singing a song ‘cos the fat man's [.
Sei punti nell'uovo di Pasqua dello Swindon Di Renato Cignoni BARNET 0SWINDON TOWN 2 (Murray '14,
'32 Risser) Swindon Town:Wes Foderingham,Joe Devera, Aden Flint, Alan McCormack, Jay McEveley, Luke
Rooney (Thompson '78), Jonathan Smith (Ferry '56), Oliver Risser, Raffaele De Vita (Connell '81),
Paul Benson, Ronan MurraySostituti non utilizzati: Phil Smith , John Bostock Barnet:Dean Brill,
Over three separate trips to Underhill across a period of 12 years, away days in Barnet have become something of a personal favourite. I've missed a few games in that time, but the trio that I have been able to make – each time supporting Plymouth – have been excellent days and reflective, perhaps, of how my life has evolved alongside and around football over these years.
Although the FA are famously allergic to him, Terry Venables remains closely nestled in many an
England fans bosom. He was the man who squeezed the last drops of genius out of Paul Gascoigne and
almost seduced football to come home at Euro 96. Since that unforgettable summer, the former Spurs
manager has never been [.
This article titled "Dennis Signy, the journalist with the best contacts book in football" was
written by Roy Greenslade, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 7th June 2012 07.30 UTC
Dennis Signy, the freelance football writer who wrote for several national newspapers,
especially the Sunday Express, has died aged 85.
Seattle Sounder's beat a Beckham and Keane-less LA Galaxy 2-0 over in the MLS last night, with
Fredy Montero's 48th-minute exocet definitely the goal of the game the Colombian striker smashing
his first goal of the season into Bill Gaudette's top corner from roughly the length of a Blue
Whale (90 feet) out.
Something that has been gaining a lot of attention recently is that of Raul Meireles' haircut.
He's been described as having a dead rodent on his head, which isn't a bad description.
Whether something has happened to him during his time at Chelsea perhaps he bet with John Terry
that Villas-Boas will not get sacked before the end of the season, and the loser had to get a
god-awful haircut?
