All posts tagged "Championship"

• Features

  / 12 years ago

  Jacob 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...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• League Two

  / 12 years ago

  Competitive? 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...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• League One

  / 12 years ago

  Profile 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...

  By Guy Branston
• Featured

  / 12 years ago

  Kevin 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...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Columnists

  / 12 years ago

  Has Oscar got higher motives in mind?

  WATCHING his team slump to three demoralising defeats, new Brighton boss Oscar Garcia has looked utterly bewildered.

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Championship

  / 12 years ago

  Mick 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...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Columnists

  / 12 years ago

  Portsmouth fans gave me dog’s abuse but I still love the club

  I’VE managed in the Football League long enough to know that crazy results are the name of the game.

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Features

  / 12 years ago

  Bristol Rovers 1973-74 Division Three runners up

  BRUCE Bannister and his strike partner Alan Warboys were dubbed ‘Smash and Grab’ but it was their club Bristol Rovers who...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Championship

  / 12 years ago

  From Tel Aviv bombs to Brighton Belles

  REMEMBER when Arsene Wenger walked into Highbury in 1996? Angular, debonair, and utterly unheralded, it seemed the Gunners had lost the...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Columnists

  / 12 years ago

  Tractor Boys can harvest ripe reward

  IPSWICH boss Mick McCarthy has targeted a top six finish this season but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion he could do...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Columnists

  / 12 years ago

  Midfield maulers will battle for Harry Redknapp

  SORRY Mr Ladbroke and Senor Hill. But this season, I’m not making any predictions. No sir. After confidently tipping Palace for...

  By The LeaguePaper Team
• Championship

  / 12 years ago

  Owen Coyle took salary cut five times to play on

  OWEN Coyle was 19 the first and only time he tasted alcohol. A rising star with Dumbarton, he had been invited...

  By The LeaguePaper Team