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Denouement at Liverpool?
The long-running saga of Messrs Hicks and Gillett’s failure, first, to bring Liverpool’s level debt down, and, next, to find a purchaser of the club willing to pay the unrealistic price they were...
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Liverpool and Manchester United
I’ve been abroad for work and then taken a couple of days leave – the net result is a week of only occasional internet contact. A week is a long time in football it would seem. All my standard...
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Lessons from Plymouth
The car crash that Plymouth Argyle is on the verge of turning into is a strange case, yet many a club might well think that there but for the grace of god go they. At the beginning of the nineties Dan...
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The joy that was, and may yet again be, the Abbey Stadium
Perhaps not the obvious stadium to refer to as a ‘joy’, but it has a special place in my personal history. My very first football-related memory is of being driven along the Newmarket Road as a child...
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Crisis and confusion at Coventry City
Since the end of January there have been various changes in the membership of the Coventry City Board, then we saw the sacking of Aidy Boothroyd, the tenth sacking of a Coventry City manager in the...
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Unsung heroes
The news that Plymouth Argyle’s players and administrative staff are still failing to get their full pay (1) is not, of course, really news at all. This situation has been going on for roughly a year....
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Deconstructing Peter Lorimer
Peter Lorimer’s thoughts on fans being on the boards of football clubs (1) were, at least as reported by the BBC, somewhat confusing and even confused. Certainly his assertion that he does not envisage...
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So, is it really ‘goodbye Bluebirds, hello Red Dragons’?
Like the old joke about anti-social behaviour in a lift, what is happening at Cardiff City is just plain wrong at so many levels. The root causes of the problem lie in Sam Hammam’s decision to build a...
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The stadium curse
The topics of the stadium which has become separated from its club in ownership terms, and the mixed blessing that a new stadium can bring, are ones that I have covered in previous postings (see...
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