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The Seagulls have landed in top flight
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/04/2017
» Brighton and Hove Albion clinched promotion to the Premier League this week, a considerable achievement for a team which came within a whisker of dropping out of the Football League 20 years ago.
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Desperate times for Royals as club fights to survive
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 20/01/2024
» As a life-long Reading fan it was very sad to witness the scenes at my home town club last Saturday. The League One match between Reading and visiting Port Vale was abandoned after 16 minutes when an estimated 1,000 fans ran onto the pitch to protest against Royals' owner Dai Yongge, a Chinese businessman.
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Despair for Oldham and their loyal fans but joy for Forest Green
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/04/2022
» The murky depths of League Two was the unlikely setting for a significant piece of football history last weekend when Oldham Athletic became the first former Premier League club to drop out of the Football League.
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Danish midfielder Eriksen incident puts things into perspective
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 19/06/2021
» The early stages of the opening round of the Euro 2020 Championships were understandably overshadowed by the dramatic collapse on the pitch by Denmark's Christian Eriksen as he suffered cardiac arrest.
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Picking up the remains of English season
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/06/2020
» It's been a long, frustrating wait but next week we will be able to see on television our first Premier League games since everything ground to a halt in March.
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The Tangerine Army is on the march
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/03/2019
» Blackpool supporters are planning a major celebratory parade from the seafront to their Bloomfield Road stadium before today's match against Southend after winning a crucial victory... off the pitch. The festivities featuring the mighty Tangerine Army have been prompted by the news that the extremely unpopular owners, the Oyston family, have finally been ousted from the club following a High Court order.
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Of cabbages and celery, pigs and pies
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/10/2018
» Steve Bruce was not a happy bunny when a cabbage was thrown at him by a protesting spectator at Villa Park recently. The Aston Villa manager was even less happy shortly afterwards when he got the sack for his team's recent cabbage-like performances, highlighted by throwing away a 2-0 lead in a 3-3 draw with bottom-placed Preston.
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Behind the closed doors is all rather sad
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 07/10/2017
» Watching the Barcelona game against Las Palmas last Sunday being played behind closed doors was a most peculiar experience. The whole thing was totally surreal as these highly-paid players performed in an empty stadium, usually patronised by 99,000 screaming fans. Millions of course watched it on TV, but the only people inside the normally heaving Camp Nou were team and stadium officials.
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Pigs fly as fans vent fury at the Valley
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/10/2016
» Last Saturday witnessed a most unusual protest in the League One game between Charlton Athletic and Coventry City when hundreds of plastic pink pigs were thrown onto the pitch at the Valley shortly after kick-off. Throwing things onto the pitch is nothing new in football protests, but this time it was both sets of supporters who joined forces to protest their respective owners.
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Wimbledon as entertaining as ever
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 11/07/2015
» As the Wimbledon fortnight draws to a close, we can justifiably say it has been a little different this year.
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