Our latest conversation is with Danny Brothers, author of a number of posts for us including a look back at Northampton Town's 1996-7 play-off winning side. Danny runs his own blog and this has the obligatory moniker, A Load of Cobblers, although he spreads his net beyond the watershed of the River Nene to League 2 as a whole, joining forces with our last interviewee Ben Mayhew and Maxi Hobbs for

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August
Spurs finally get their season under way at Old Trafford and the 2011/12 incarnation of Tottenham look good.

By Chris Wright

When asked about his reported intrest in nabbing Samir Nasri from Arsenal this summer at a presser ahead of Manchester United's pre-season tour of Yankland, Sir Alex Ferguson put the kibosh on the tittle-tattle, claiming that Nasri has another suitor lined up:

"I don't think he is coming to United.

By Chris Wright

You may well have been sucked in by the Sunday Mirror's big back-page EXCLUSIVE yesterday, with the paper running with an exclusive report into Cristiano Ronaldo's dalliances with Manchester City, in which the man himself candidly admitted that he would have jumped ship to Eastlands this summer had Jose Mourinho left the Bernabeu and returned to Chelsea.

Last week I listened to a number of end of season podcasts. Needless to say the non-Arsenal assessments were damning of the team and in particular the podcasts made by professional journalists.(SkySports, Guardian etc). Almost to a man the journalists blamed Arsenal's failure on Mr Wenger lack of activity in the transfer market and his reliance on his youth policy.

The term must win is used too much over the course of the season, but tomorrow's game at Sixfields is just that for both ourselves and Northampton. Three points for the Cobblers would probably all but confirm their safety and a place in next season's League 2 with so many other sides nervously looking over their shoulder into the non-league trap door.

Residing in Milton Keynes won't seem so bad this Saturday when I make the 15 minute drive up to Northampton to hopefully watch Boro go one step closer to securing their League 2 play-off place.

On a visit to Northampton last summer some time, I had a wonder around the ground and took a couple of pictures of their Sixfields Stadium.

By Chris Wright

"You're shit mate!"

Arsenal's tag-along midfielder Denilson has done what any right-minded fellow would do hours before an FA Cup third-round replay in which he was due to start, and got stuck into his club captain, Cesc Fabregas, criticising the Spaniard's apparent lack of leadership skills.

The big beasts of the SPL met at Hampden today and the prospect of a two tier SPL each with ten sides has moved ever closer to being rubber stamped.
It's the only financially viable option apparently. And we have to trust these club chairmen and chief executives. Many of them have, after all, led their own clubs to the brink of financial ruin.