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In January, I cast an eye on the unending cacophony of abuse in online football communities, with
a section on Doncaster Rovers website Viva Rovers, and provoking a compelling spate of comments
involving Leeds United blog, The Scratching Shed. The problems are not confined to Yorkshire alone,
but as an important follow up, Michael Wood here provides an epitaph on the Bradford City site, Boy
from Brazil, one of the very best chronicles online and one that closed towards the end of 2011.
One of this website's latest followers on Twitter, Simeon F. W. Pickup states his interests as
‘Reading FC, Atheism, Labour. In that order.' Although Ed Miliband's negligible impact on the
polls may have something to do with his party being relegated behind Brian McDermott and Richard
Dawkins in Simeon's thinking, I did read this as tongue in cheek.
Following the recent untimely demise of Bradford City blog, Boy from Brazil, our latest guest post
comes from Bantams fan Richard Beecham . Richard is a trainee journalist who was recently published
by the Leeds Scribbler site – follow him on Twitter at @RichardBeecham. 'Why don't you just
support Leeds?
Blow me down with a feather, Crawley have lost five in six. Tipped widely to succeed for a second
consecutive season, the Red Devils Mark II have been up against it in the last few weeks, their
League Cup defeat at Palace preceding a woeful run that has witnessed pointless games against
Cheltenham, Morecambe and Swindon.
In June, Ben Piggott ran the rule over the fortunes of Football League players in that month's
European Under-21 Championship, with Aron Gunnarsson and Mikkel Andersen in particular enjoying
less than fruitful campaigns. Now, the man behind the illustrations that adorn this website turns
his attention to the recent Under-20 World Cup, a tournanment that has been covered expertly by Two
Hundred
Today, our bumper (there really is no other word) preview of the coming football league season has
gone live, a collaborative venture with The Seventy Two. The whole thing is presented in pdf format
and is available for free download here or navigate the widget on the right hand side of this page.
There is a whole lot to enjoy from a myriad of the blogosphere's best writers, but if your
Regular readers of these pages will know that we embrace tradition. Identikit all seater stadia
and the "it began in 1992" mentality are not for us. As far as kits are concerned, West Bromwich
Albion's current neglect of the green and yellow stripes offends, and Manchester City should always
sport Milanese style away from home.
Picking a favourite football kit is an endeavour not too far removed from naming one's favourite
dictator – an aberration here, a crime against humanity there, writes John McGee. Our motley band
have stepped forth in an attempt to split the Pol Pots from the VI Lenins in this year's bunch. As
with most votes there has been no clear winner so the arbiter has been the author of the article.
First a caveat - it's a starry age for the blogosphere and this award was voted for by the 7 or 8
people who most regularly post at The Two Unfortunates. So, if your blog or website didn't get a
mention this time, it's not because we don't think you're great. Last year's winner BHaPPY
continues to excel and it was particularly heartening to see the return of the mighty SmogBlog.
Like Achilles' ankles or Steffi Graf's backhand, Swansea City's weakness over the past few seasons
of approximate excellence has been all too obvious. Jason Scotland was the key fulcrum for a time,
but the goals for column has rarely been a totalizer at the Liberty. That all ended this Spring
when Brendan Rodgers - he of the Big League contacts - took a drive down Fulham Broadway and came
back
Having spent the past few days working in North Yorkshire, I've been able to engage in a guilty
pleasure of mine: football stadium rubbernecking on the train. Although perhaps not living up to
the heights of the Birmingham New Street - Nottingham special in which eagle-eyed passengers take
in the grounds of Tamworth, Burton and Derby within a mere 20 minutes, a debut ride between
Leeds and
Booker Prize winner: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee John Peel Festive 50 Number 1: Cuban Boys:
Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia Poet Laureate: Andrew Motion President of Libya: Muammar al-Gaddafi
In his first dedicated piece for the two unfortunates, Michael Wood of the beautifully designed and
written Bradford City website Boy From Brazil, treats us to a snapshot of his Bantams-supporting
life over the
If expectations at Bradford City rival those of Philip Pirrip, the city's continued status as one
of England's chiefest ten conurbations does provide some justification. However, as a recent piece
in the superb Bantams blog, Boy from Brazil admitted, the tide has been receding ever since the
decline of the woollen trade – economic woes rarely make for healthy teams.
