With Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Southampton firmly rooted to the bottom of the Premier League, the question once again arises around what it takes to win promotion into the top tier and to then survive.
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Graham Westley: If you work hard, you’ll get rewards
My youngest lad Joe enjoyed a dream Football League debut for Swindon Town last weekend as he began his loan spell away from Burnley.
Graham Westley: Walsall can drive home big advantage
With 21 games of the League Two season remaining, Walsall were 15 points clear of fourth place and seemingly cruising towards automatic promotion.
Graham Westley: Transfer window system is just not for me…
Transfer windows are a football anomaly that I really don’t like – two key elements in sport ought to be skill and equitability.
Humble Frank Lampard can shine in Coventry City glare
ARECORD of 13 wins (23%) and 32 defeats (57%) in his last 56 games in a dugout is being held up as a reason for Coventry City not to have employed Frank Lampard, evidence that he does not have what it takes.
LET’S BE POSITIVE ABOUT OUR CHANGING GAME
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER AS I stood on the side of the pitch watching my lad […]
STAYING UP WOULD RANK HIGH FOR WAYNE
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER GOING into the weekend, Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth Argyle were just two points […]
Exceptional Mark will bounce back
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER AFTER 154 wins in 387 games at a 39%+ win rate, Mark […]
Quickfire fix? Not in management
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER THERE is never a shortage of managerial change in the world of […]
Graham Westley: Window shuts but hard work begins
THE closing of a transfer window is a very difficult time at a football club. The comings and goings create all sorts of issues and it is very difficult to get everything right.
Steve richly deserves his nomination
Graham Westley – Ex-Stevenage, Preston, Peterborough and Newport manager You simply have to admire clubs who punch above their weight. […]
Forgotten bosses need more help…
Graham Westley LMA CAN PLAY GREATER ROLE My name was one of eight on a list of candidates to be […]
Now you need to embrace pressure situation
The run-in is a very different time in a season. The stakes seem to become much higher and the consequences […]
You need to tell the truth at times
Graham Westley The ex-Stevenage, Preston, Peterborough and Newport manager has sympathy for the axed Deeney There was a sense of […]
Saddened by Royals’ decline…
Back in the early noughties, in the year of my Farnborough Town’s side Isthmian Premier title success, we played a […]
WHEN ALAN HAD US ALL IN STITCHES
I WAS recently invited to share some insight on a podcast called Undr The Cosh. It was a fun experience […]
EFL miss big trick by not using VAR
… AND THESE IDEAS CAN IMPROVE IT OVER the years, I have strongly advocated the introduction of a form of […]
YOU HAVE TO DIG SO DEEP TO LAND AN EFL SHOT
BID: Jonathan Greening IN LAST week’s FA Cup first round, there was a much publicised story emanating out of Scarborough […]
Smart Notts rising to new challenges
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER Back in July, Notts County’s Adam Chicksen said: “You don’t just step […]
Leader Aden has got that extra bit of class
Graham Westley At every rung of the football ladder, there are players who just look ‘too good for the level’. […]
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