All posts tagged "Championship"
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Championship
/ 12 years agoWigan Athletic striker Grant Holt is proud to be old fashioned
AS Rickie Lambert rose to power home a header on his England debut, Grant Holt was sat on his sofa, crutches...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoYou need luck to survive in the sack race
WELL, the sacking season is well and truly upon us now. After David Weir at Sheffield United, this week has seen...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoSo petty, to monkey about with a joke
YOU know that scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers when Donald Sutherland suddenly realises everyone in San Francisco is an...
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Features
/ 12 years agoBristol City’s quiet boss has the right ethics
AS a player at Fulham, Sean O’Driscoll was given the nickname Noisy. As manager of Bournemouth, it was Mr Happy. As...
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Championship
/ 12 years agoClint Hill: “QPR players were not pulling their weight”
HARRY Redknapp put QPR’s plight last season down to a “culture of decay” in a squad filled with too many Jose...
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Championship
/ 12 years agoMiddlesbrough Sack Tony Mowbray
MARK VENUS has taken temporary charge of Middlesbrough following the departure of Tony Mowbray.
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Championship
/ 12 years agoWayne gets his world back on track at Yeovil
WAYNE HENNESSEY’S hunt for first-team football has remarkably taken him up a league and the on-loan Yeovil keeper is hoping an...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoPaolo’s ban on ketchup was too saucy
I HATE to see a manager sacked but I wasn’t surprised to see Paolo Di Canio leave Sunderland. Everywhere I’ve been,...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoFeeder clubs? Try a taste of Italy
SIENA is a beautiful town. Terracotta tiles, winding cobbled streets and a big church tower with spectacular views across the Tuscan...
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League One
/ 12 years agoJukebox: I could play with the Stones
YOU DON’T get many League One footballers outlining a future that involves playing part-time for Maidstone United, but Crawley Town’s Andy...
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Championship
/ 12 years agoBoy Wonder grows up
JAMES Vaughan could have been a sprinter. As a 13-year-old, he clocked 11.5 seconds for the 100 metres, the third fastest...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoHearn keeps nerve and Orient prosper
DOWN at Leyton Orient, Russell Slade is going through the kind of period every manager dreams of – a genuine once...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoGive Rhodes more help and watch him fire
BLACKBURN boss Gary Bowyer took a thinly-veiled swipe at Scotland manager Gordon Strachan after Jordan Rhodes’ late leveller salvaged a point...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoGraham Westley: Going back to Preston was no big deal
As a manager, returning to a former club is a strange experience. In the last 12 months I have returned to...
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Features
/ 12 years agoJacob Butterfield: All I care about is playing
CHRISTMAS 2011. Jacob Butterfield is the talk of the Championship. Captain of Barnsley in his first full season, a call-up to...
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League Two
/ 12 years agoCompetitive? He tried to recruit Giggs for head tennis!
MOST people think it was Sam Allardyce who inspired Phil Brown to take his first steps into coaching. Yet while the...
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League One
/ 12 years agoProfile on Bradford City manager Phil Parkinson
PHIL Parkinson was never the silkiest player, nor the most gifted. He often saw the impossible pass, but that didn’t mean...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoKevin Lisbie’s loyalty finds reward
WHILE the futures of some of the biggest names in the Premier League are played out across the back pages it...
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Columnists
/ 12 years agoHas Oscar got higher motives in mind?
WATCHING his team slump to three demoralising defeats, new Brighton boss Oscar Garcia has looked utterly bewildered.
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Championship
/ 12 years agoMick McCarthy: ‘The secret of my success? Win your first match!’
IT is 2pm the day before Ipswich travel to QPR and Mick McCarthy has just been asked how he feels about...