Chris Dunlavy
Tame Terriers in hunt for lost spirit
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL IS MANAGING Huddersfield Town the most difficult job in the EFL right now? Liam Manning is about to find...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 days agoChris Dunlavy: James McClean’s time at Wrexham shows the value of a veteran
James McClean’s success at Wrexham shows that there is value in the older generation.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 days agoCLOSING ‘CHUTE PAYMENT WILL DO FOR ME…
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL PLEDGE: David Kogan DAVID Kogan, the chair of the new football regulator, has promised to review the impact of parachute payments on the EFL. It shouldn’t take long,...
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Adam Virgo
/ 3 days agoOsman must grab big Blues chance
Adam Virgo BRIGHTON LEGEND AND TV PUNDIT IT’S make or break time for Ibrahim Osman, the Ghanaian winger who has just joined Birmingham on loan from Brighton. If he doesn’t make an impression at St...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 week agoMATT & JON HAVE TOOLS TO TURN THE TABLES
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER ENERGY: Matt Bloomfield BOTH Matt Bloomfield (Oxford United) and Jon Brady (Port Vale) have picked up fantastic new challenges. Young managers who inherit relegation threatened squads in...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 week agoCHAMP FAILURE CAN BE PATH TO THE TOP
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL CHANCE: Michael Carrick DOWN in the dumps after being sacked by a Championship club? Don’t worry – you might be heading for the top. Michael Carrick’s return to...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 week agoChris Dunlavy: Oops! Josh Sargent has made a major error
Josh Sargent clearly hadn’t done his homework on Philippe Clement when he fired off the explosive text that may have ended his Norwich City career.
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Graham Westley
/ 1 week agoGraham Westley: Collaboration can work – with effort
Gareth Southgate was reported as saying this week that the erosion of a manager’s authority has been a gradual process over many years. He added that the process has accelerated with the widespread introduction of...
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Columnists
/ 2 weeks agoSimon Grayson: Don’t expect quick fix at soft Leicester City
The thousands of empty seats at Leicester’s game against West Brom on Monday said everything about the state of my old club.
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Columnists
/ 2 weeks agoSimon Grayson: Frank Lampard’s Coventry City have the class to overcome wobble
If you spoke to Frank Lampard in private, I don’t think he’d be too worried about Coventry City’s dip in form.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Scarred Southampton need mental reset to improve Championship form
For a while there, it looked like Tonda Eckert might be the solution to Southampton’s post-Premier League malaise.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoLATE? YES BUT TIGER CALL WAS CORRECT
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL TRAGEDY: Billy Vigar HULL should have called off last weekend’s game with Watford a lot earlier, but that does not mean the decision was wrong. Though the surface...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Listen, axed Ryan Mason needs to learn from West Brom flop
Ryan Mason was sacked because West Brom lost too many games and he struggled to implement a coherent style of play.
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Columnists
/ 3 weeks agoGuy Branston: Zan Vipotnik can keep Swansea City afloat in the Championship
Swansea City are a club who shouldn’t be struggling in the Championship, but they just aren’t run properly.
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Columnists
/ 3 weeks agoGuy Branston: Martin Hodge is the driving force of Hull City
Hull City have surprised a few people this season, but not me. From the moment they appointed Martin Hodge as their head of recruitment in May, I knew they’d come good.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: It’s time to cash in and seize the day for Championship hopefuls
January, almost invariably, ends in disappointment and deflation for the average football supporter. It begins with hope of transformative signings and vital reinforcements. It ends with…
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Sheffield Wednesday fans deserve more than a stopgap ownership
When the architects contracted to refurbish Newcastle United’s corporate facilities paid a visit to St James’ Park following the Saudi-led takeover in 2021, they were shocked by what they found.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Hayden Hackney would be mad to leave Middlesbrough in January
From being seen as a source of funds to rebuild an imbalance squad, Hackney has now become the single-most important cog in a promotion push
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 month agoLAMPARD HAS DELIVERED PERFECT RIPOSTE TO DOUBTERS
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL AFTER years of sniping and ridicule, 2025 will be remembered as the year Frank Lampard conclusively dismissed any doubt about his managerial competence. From the moment he first...
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Adam Virgo
/ 1 month agoAdam Virgo: Norwich City’s fearless Jovon Makama has talent for the top
If I was a Premier League side looking for a young up-and-coming talent to work with in the future then Jovon Makama would be right at the top of my list.
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