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?
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Actual – Swindon Town, Shrewsbury Town, Crawley Town, Crewe Alexandra
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Take a tumble Enthusiastic Swindon Town manager Paolo Di Canio has said he will instruct his squad
to dive in future after seeing his side's appeals turned down at the weekend because the players
stayed on their feet. The Italian was furious after the Robins' 2-0 defeat at Macclesfield after
Matt Ritchie's penalty appeal was [.
You couldn't ever accuse Swindon Town supporters of having little to talk about. The team has
pogoed around the divisions in the last twenty years (they were present in the second ever Premier
League season of 1993-4, and are at present the only former Premiership team to have been relegated
to the lowest league tier).
1981-2011 The sudden death of Macclesfield Town's Richard Butcher at the age of just 29 came as a
major shock to the footballing world yesterday. It will have hit those involved at the lower end of
the Football League the hardest. Richard was no stranger to League Two football, having played for
Lincoln City, Peterborough [.
With fellow relegation candidates Plymouth seemingly coughing and spluttering towards the finishing
line, today represents an excellent chance for either Macclesfield or Dagenham to push on and leave
their rivals in mental tatters as the two meet at Victoria Road. Here, Macc fan and Magic Sponger
Rob MacDonald wonders how it's come to this for the Silkmen and what the implications for
relegation would be in Cheshire East.
TTU regulars will know that Plymouth Argyle receive more than their fair share of coverage on these
pages; although we try to split our attention 72 ways it can be difficult to abstain from repeat
postings when there's so much to be said.The goalposts in this long-running saga have moved daily,
so we've largely played the admiring onlooker of late as others, such as twohundredpercent, have,
to
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
Two big wins tonight in the FA Cup for Bolton and QPR, two sides that have been struggling for
wins in the league this season.
Bolton beat fourth-tier Macclesfield 2-0 to reach the competition's last 32. First-half goals by
striker Kevin Davies and Bulgaria winger Martin Petrov set up an all-Premier League match against
Swansea on Jan.
Two big wins tonight in the FA Cup for Bolton and QPR, two sides that have been struggling for
wins in the league this season.
Bolton beat fourth-tier Macclesfield 2-0 to reach the competition's last 32. First-half goals by
striker Kevin Davies and Bulgaria winger Martin Petrov set up an all-Premier League match against
Swansea on Jan.
A team not from England in the English Premier League? Whats that I hear you say?
For those readers from around the world who may not be versed in UK geography, there will be a
very special team playing in the English Premiership next season. A team that isn't actually from
England.
This may surprise a few people but Swansea City is a team from Wales, a country famed for a
sport where people throw around a ball shaped like an egg, famed for actors Catherine Zeta Jones
and Anthony Hopkins, Tom Jones, cockles and laverbread and now finally, a Premiership football
side.
We've made more than our share of jokes about the long, dull, dragging days of summer without
Liverpool football to distract us from cruel reality, but when you get right down to it there are
few sports that span the calendar quite like football. And so, three long, hard days (or
thereabouts) after Barcelona beat Manchester United in the Champions League final to close out
major European competition, the first wave of players begin to trickle into pre-season training
camps in England to kick off July.
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Our football review of the week looks back at Birmingham's shock win over Arsenal (he he),
wonders if it's possible for Ashley Cole to become even more ridiculous and reviews the ugly
Glasgow derby.
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Our football review of the week looks back at Birmingham's shock win over Arsenal (he he),
wonders if it's possible for Ashley Cole to become even more ridiculous and reviews the ugly
Glasgow derby.
Between the years 1989 and 2002, Manchester United comprehensively dominated local rivals City
when it came to the derby ties betwixt the two clubs.
After hammering United 5-1 at Maine Road in September of '89, City then endured a 13-year barren
run before finally emerging victorious again in November of 2002, thanks mainly to
Shaun 'The Goat' Goater's 100th and 101st goals for the club.
Harry Redknapp is lining up a move for Crewe's teenage wonderkid Max Clayton. The 17-year-old
scored his first goal in senior football against Macclesfield in the Johnstone's Paint.
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Liverpool has confirmed that Kevin Keen has joined the club as first-team coach on a three-year
contract.
Keen will join up with his new colleagues for the first time on Monday when Liverpool's squad
report back to Melwood for the start of pre-season training.
The 44-year-old made over 600 appearances in spells with West Ham, Wolves, Stoke City, Macclesfield
and Wycombe.
Forget all that sophisticated passing the ball around nonsense, Ben Tomlinson and Macclesfield
cut to the chase from the kick off in their League Two clash with Morcambe this week.
Taking the direct route, Tomlinson netted an historic (fastest ever) goal for Macclesfield on
the way to a 1-1 draw with Morecambe, with the action taking just seven seconds from kick off to
goal.
Forget all that sophisticated passing the ball around nonsense, Ben Tomlinson and Macclesfield
cut to the chase from the kick off in their League Two clash with Morcambe this week.
Taking the direct route, Tomlinson netted an historic (fastest ever) goal for Macclesfield on
the way to a 1-1 draw with Morecambe, with the action taking just seven seconds from kick off to
goal.
With a fortnight having passed since the keys turned in the lock of the transfer kitty vaults, I
thought I would attempt to identify which ten of the myriad deals done may benefit purchasers most
in the short term. The list below is a subjective one, peppered with both the obvious and the
unheralded, and no doubt destined to be debunked four months from now.
Leaders Port Vale travel to struggling Morecambe on Saturday, while bottom side Hereford face
Bradford.
After the recent weather disruption, just one fixture has been postponed - Lincoln's
clash with Oxford - while snow is being cleared off the pitches at Bradford and
Macclesfield.
So another season has come and gone. I don't know about you, but it seems to have absolutely
flown past. It wasn't that long ago that we were all looking forward to the Football League fixture
list being released and then getting underwhelmed when we learnt we would be facing Macclesfield at
home on the opening day.
His early coaching success now a distant memory, Paul Ince found himself out of a job once again
this month after leaving relegation-threatened Notts County. With several of his former Manchester
United teammates having enjoyed relatively straightforward routes into top-level management, is it
circumstance or something else that's holding back Ince's managerial career?
We put an end to our Monday Profile series in the Summer after a two year run but, in a bid to occasionally recapture the spirit of that venture, will occasionally shine a light on a Football League player of our choice. Today, Ian Rands of A United View on Football surveys the first few months of Nick Blackman's Sheffield United career and wonders if his encouraging early momentum can be maintained.
Efe Sodje será praticamente um desconhecido para a maioria dos portugueses. Confesso que só fui
pesquisar sobre ele quando o vi a separar dois companheiros de equipa que se "embrulharam"
recentemente por causa da marcação de um penálti – ao estilo Bojinov-Matias. Chamou-me a
atenção pelo "lenço" que usava na sua cabeça e pela sua envergadura.
Mendy it like Beckham (or at least Henry) If Macclesfield player Arnaud Mendy had dreamt of scoring
against Bolton the night before their FA Cup third round tie on Saturday, he would have struggled
to do a better job than he did in the match itself. Thierry Henry's FA Cup comeback could be
tonight, but [.
There is an interesting rumour going around that Arsene Wenger is considering a move for the Welsh
U21 defender Elliot Hewitt, who despite only being 17 years of age has already appeared with the
older lads. Considering he has only made a few appearances for the League Two side Macclesfield
Town, he has already been [.
And you thought the Celtic v Rangers brawl was bad? (VIDEO) is a post from: Just Football
Watching the reaction to Celtic's 1-0 win over Old Firm rivals
Rangers and the various flare-ups that occurred at regular intervals during the
match between the two sets of players (and coaches), my overriding feeling was 'meh.
The Evening Chronicle is reporting today that Spurs big striker Peter Crouch could be offered to
Newcastle United in the summer. Peter Crouch could he do a job for Newcastle the next three years?
The 30 year-old Macclesfield-born 6′ 7″ striker was offered to Newcastle in January, as the
London club tried to sign [.
One of the projects the SBN MLS crew is working on is a mock draft. So when I'm not getting
ready for the holidays, and when I'm not prepping for the next addition of OFF, and when I'm not
prepping for the 2010 Player Recaps I'm reading a ton of draft/prospects stuff. Not just Dizzo's
solid work on Keepers and CM/Fullbacks, but stuff out there from the respected to the marginal.
