My blog over at SoccerCity is already a little outdated given the events of today but I'll publish
it anyway!
A few months ago I wrote a blog comparing the fortunes of England's two Magpies – Newcastle and
Notts County.
Back then Newcastle were in despair, mourning the loss of their Premier League status.
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A few months ago I wrote a blog comparing the fortunes of England's two Magpies – Newcastle and
Notts County.
Back then Newcastle were in despair, mourning the loss of their Premier League status. Meanwhile,
County were sky high, revelling in their new found wealth.
Their takeover in July, by the mysterious Munto Finance group, promised a bright future and lofty
ambitions included Premier League football once more for the oldest league club in the world.
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Big Story
The Football Association likes to boast of all its work in grassroots football and developing
under-privileged sides of the game, but as we've seen in its continually disappointing treatment of
women's football, there's an awful lot more talk than action.
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It could be argued that the greatest condemnation of the Football League's "Fit and Proper
Person" test was that Ken Bates could pass it. This, however, may no longer be the case - not
because of anything Bates himself has done, but because of the serial mismanagement of AFC
Bournemouth's affairs last season – which has emerged from the Football League's explanation for
maintaining the strictest possible transfer embargo on the South Coast club.
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Whatever one might think about the current goings-on at Meadow Lane, it's difficult to not feel
come degree of sympathy for their supporters over the media reactions to their appointment of Sven
Goran Eriksson and Tord Grip. Heaven forfend that some elements of the British media would find the
time to go out and actually learn anything about Notts County Football Club, the oldest of all of
the Football League clubs and founder members of the oldest football league in the world - it was
far easier and more convenient to run a number of patronising articles that read as something like
print equivalent of the "Accrington Stanley?
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Sven-Goran Eriksson at Notts County? Really?
Yes, in just three years, Sven has gone from England manager to Director of Football at a League
Two club, via Manchester City and a disastrous spell in charge of Mexico albeit, Notts County are a
club with a proud history as the world's oldest professional football club, fallen on hard
times.
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