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When goals won't stop going in at wrong end
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 15/04/2017
» It is never pleasant watching the football team you support get stuffed by the opposition. However, life goes on and you usually get over it and hope things go better in the next match. The grim reality is that, unless you are a fan of a really top team, regular defeats are part and parcel of any season.
Championship gaffers feeling the heat
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/03/2017
» The Championship is rightly regarded as one of the toughest leagues in the world and this is often reflected in the high casualty rate of its managers. This season the axe has been swinging with disturbing regularity, with the managerial blood-letting showing no signs of letting up. Gaffers are going down like flies.
There's nothing wrong with 17th place
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 11/02/2017
» Not for the first time, the Premier League has morphed into three leagues in one as the clubs head towards the final straight.
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.
Could Swansea spark a US invasion?
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 08/10/2016
» A small slice of history was made this week when Bob Bradley became the first American to be appointed manager of a club playing in the English Premier League.
Foxes ignite new hope for Owls, Royals
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/08/2016
» For more than two decades, English football fans had dreamed that an unfancied team would eventually make a run at the Premier League title, but for all those years it never looked even remotely likely. It was always the "usual suspects" led by Manchester United coming home with the silverware.
You can’t beat watching the mighty collapse
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 12/12/2015
» Last Saturday there were three results in the Premier League that provided considerable joy for uncommitted spectators. It was definitely a day for the underdogs.
Thai-owned clubs face tough season
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 08/08/2015
» As the football season kicks off in England, the three clubs with Thai owners — Leicester City, Reading and Sheffield Wednesday — face what could be a very demanding season.
Statues make their presence felt
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/05/2015
» It was a relief to see that earlier this month the statue of Blackpool footballing great, Stan Mortensen, had been restored to its rightful spot outside the club’s Bloomfield Road stadium. Mortensen scored a hat-trick in Blackpool’s remarkable FA Cup final win in 1953, somewhat ironically known as the “Matthews final”.
Blimey, we’re on our way to Wembley
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 21/03/2015
» The Thai owners of Reading FC have not had much to cheer about since they took over the club last September. Reading have been wallowing in the wrong half of the Championship table and on occasions their football has been dire.