The Seventy Two Unfortunates League 2 Preview
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...
View ArticleThe Monday Profile: Paul Scally
[H]aving insisted in July that Gillingham's budget should provide enough wherewithal to challenge for promotion this year, the early signs have been encouraging for chairman Paul Scally. Saturday's 3-1...
View ArticleCapital: London Football, Present and Future
[I]n an article last year, The Economist coined the phrase `Londonism' to refer to what it regarded as a distinct ideology driven by the office of Mayor. It cited as the central tenets of `Londonism':...
View ArticleSupport is Not for Sale
Following on from the elegy provided for the website he had run for the past 12 years, the incomparable Boy from Brazil, Michael Wood makes a quick return to TTU today. Here are his thoughts on a...
View ArticleRunning out of steam
Momentum: a priceless commodity at any stage of the season, and even more so now. Not downward movement, of course - the sort of inexorable slither towards the relegation trapdoor exemplified by Wolves...
View ArticleGeographies of Football: Economic Potential
Our series of posts this week has analysed the various impacts geography can have on the fortunes of soccer clubs. To round things off, we thought we would examine a cross section of eight cities,...
View ArticleGeographies of Football: Men of Kent
Our recent Geographies of Football series piqued interest to such a degree that we received a message from David Field wondering if we would be interested in an application of the methodology we...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2011-12: Worst Kit
Brighton have basically been immune to any sort of criticism for a couple of years now. Their League 1 team of 2010-11 was wondrous; they’re gradually becoming one of the UK’s foremost community clubs;...
View ArticleLife Without Tony Pulis
After a somewhat disappointing 1-0 defeat at Carrow Road on Saturday, Stoke City's slightly listless start to 2012-13 has continued with many neutral observers wondering whether the zenith of what the...
View ArticleCrime and Punishment: Football in the Dock
"In recent years sport has achieved an increasingly high profile as part of New Labour's social inclusion agenda, based on assumptions about its potential contribution to areas such as social and...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2012-13: Worst Kit
[L]ast year, we were left befuddled when, despite numerous attempts on this blog to engage with weightier issues such as the economic geography of football, financial troubles and foreign ownership,...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 1 Preview
[F]ollowing yesterday's start to pre-season, in which we looked at all 24 League 2 clubs, our intensive schedule continues as we move on to League 1. Tomorrow, attention will turn to the Championship....
View ArticleBook Review: The Nowhere Men
The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin Published by Century 2013, £14.99 [T]hey are a mythical breed, not to say a forgotten one in these days where youtube videos are said to inspire signings, but, in an...
View ArticleGreat Football League Teams 44: Gillingham 1999-2000
[N]umber 44 of our Great Teams sees us return to the turn of the Millennium, a year which has not yet featured among our selections although David Moyes' Preston North End dynasty were Champions of...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 1 Preview 2014-5
When asked by the esteemed editors of this site to compile a preview to the League One season I had to first humbly remind them that my own team, Carlisle United, were cruelly and indignantly relegated...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-By-Club League 1 Preview 2015-16
Barnsley 2014-15 did not go to plan for Barnsley. Freshly relegated from the Championship and adorned with an array of shiny new signings, a promotion push was on the cards. But an unconvincing start...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 1 Preview 2016-17
Our League 1 preview this year is a joint effort between regular contributors Tom Furnival-Adams, a Coventry City supporter whose work has appeared in a host of organs including When Saturday Comes and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Richard Foster Published by Ockley Books 2017 It was entirely remiss of us not to have reviewed Richard Foster’s The Agony and the Ecstasy on its initial release in 2015,...
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