The Thursday Preview: Morecambe Vs Southend
As man-versus-beast clashes go, it hardly sounds like the most titanic or epic - certainly not worth a mention on Human Planet. But nevertheless this Saturday's encounter between the Shrimpers and the...
View ArticleTTU Awards 2010/2011: Best Away Trip
What makes a good day out? Three points would do nicely for a start, even in Dagenham, but other variables might range from a particularly memorable chant to the discovery of cracking pub in the shadow...
View ArticleTen Reasons to Love the Football League
So Football is officially dead then – beside images of sideburns, NHS celebrations, Kenneth Branagh in a top hat, a Somali-born hero, David Rudisha, the lightning bolt and the tranquil surrounds of...
View ArticleRevisiting the Price of Football
[T]here comes a point in every football fan’s life when the “sod it, I’m not going moment” occurs. For some Manchester City fans, contributing £62 to Arsenal’s coffers was a step too far. For me,...
View ArticleDoing a Radiohead: Football and the Concept of ‘Pay What You Want’
[I]n recent years, the phrase, ‘to do a Radiohead’ has no longer come to represent a retreat into wilful obscurantism following a peak period of success. Ever since the Abingdon School alumni released...
View Article4-4-2 Managers and 4-4-2 Fans
[I]f you, as a football fan, recognise the shortcomings of 4-4-2 (the system, not the magazine), then that leaves you a few genes short of being a 'proper bloke' and certainly unpatriotic in the...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
[W]e're baaack! Kicking off this year's look ahead to the new season, we focus today on the clubs who'll be competing in League 2 this year and – because everyone likes a prediction – pass judgement on...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: Trouble Ahead
[F]inancially speaking – and the majority of us did interpret ‘trouble ahead’ through a fiscal lens when discussing potential candidates – this could be a tough year for Football League clubs. With a...
View ArticleMorecambe’s Cloth Cutting Strategy
[W]hen we previewed the new League Two season back in July, the Shrimps of Morecambe FC were about as popular with our pundits and the bookies as they would be chez Roy Keane. The Lancashire club had...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club League 2 Preview
[I]n the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who's who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2015-16
Kicking off a week of divisional previews, we focus on the movers and shakers in this season’s League 2: Cambridge, Portsmouth and Luton are each backed for automatic promotion whereas we suggest it...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: A Club-by-Club League 2 Preview 2016-17
Accrington Stanley Regardless of whether Accrington went up last year, their team was destined to be broken up, such was their quality. With Matty Crooks and Josh Windass having already signed...
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