Welcome to the Premier League - it is a world away, A league were all the soccer players - get very high pay. The Arsenal, and the Chelsea - Spurs and West Ham - Are all in the city of London - near the Birmingham! Then there’s Manchester City - competing with Manchester United, These
Compared to other teams in English league football AFC Wimbledon are a relatively new club, but they can boast a history that goes back many years. Their dedicated followers have stayed with them through thick and thin and it is this dedication that has made the club what it is today. Wimbledon Old Central Football
On Saturday 30 October 1886, the two greatest clubs of the nineteenth century met in Glasgow. This was more than just an Anglo-Scottish clash. Queen’s Park were the amateur purists against the new professional force that was Preston North End. Founded in 1867, Queen’s Park was Scotland’s first Association Football Club. Previously football had been
Communication is key in any sport, especially team ones such as rugby and football, where the success of the club depends on effective management of large pools of talent. Keeping track of the well-being, health and fitness of each individual player is essential to manage your resources and ensure that the group on the pitch
There comes a time where we must all grow up. Young boys stop playing with little action figures and move on to games consoles, young girls stop wearing their mothers make-up and start wearing their own. We all go to secondary school, reach an age where an interest in the opposite sex grows and we
Sports are great fun to participate in, and they’re great for your physical and mental health. Not only do you get exercise, but you get the opportunity to participate in a confidence building activity with friends that share your interests. However, sports can also be very dangerous. If you are looking to maintain an active,
Whether you’re playing competitively or just playing for fun, a game of football should always be an enjoyable experience for all involved. Many of us will have been in situations where we’ve had to play against opponents we might have a grudge with, or had to play an away game before hostile spectators – but
Okay, I’m going to stick my neck firmly on the chopping block here and state that Bolton is a good value bet to take the Championship title. If you have a look at all the different odds available with the various bookies, they are a best-priced 12/1 with some of them at the time of
On Saturday, Stoke were booed off at half-time against Aston Villa and the mood failed to improve in the second half as Matt Lowton and Christian Benteke earned the visitors a pivotal victory in the relegation battle. Villa left the Potters just three points off the drop zone with six matches remaining, having won just
The dog fight – the title best describing the Championship. Cardiff are the only team consistently taking home three points. Leaving a dog fight for the second automatic promotion place. There is such a high level of expectancy for Malky Mackay’s men, as they have failed to get through the play-offs year after year. They
Live football is enjoyed all around the world, and as much is done as possible to keep these events safe. Unfortunately, disaster can strike, and over the years there have been a few tragic disasters that have led to fans being seriously injured or even killed. These events and the people lost are still strongly
For Swindon Town, a Premier League club of just fifteen years ago who have been beset by two administrations and a series of HMRC wind-up orders as they spent their time yo-yoing between the second and third tier, a rise back up to the Championship was never going to be smooth. In fact, with Paolo
The £8 million spent by Steve Kean on a player who had never played higher that the third division raised plenty of eyebrows, but the Scot has proved he can be one of the great British strikers of his generation It is often said that, in the enticing world of the football league,a player always
“It’s all happening so fast”, these were the words Wilfried Zaha took the modicum of Twitter to announce his reaction to an England call up back in November having just turned 20 years of age. The call came on the back of some scintillating performances for Crystal Palace of the Championship, raising high interest from
Will Hughes- the white haired 17 year old from Derby who’s taking the Championship by storm. Even though he is so young, this doesn’t stop him gaining first team opportunities - he has made 26 league appearances so far this season alone, scoring on two occasions and making the same amount of assists. That’s not
This weekend, the spotlight will fall on the town 60 miles north of London which now houses a football club, more specifically the heir of the liquidated Wimbledon, which Pete Winkelman still attracts unparalleled contempt for ripping an historic club from the heart of its south London community and shifting it to a new life
Many people seem to forget that it wasn’t too many years ago that Burnley were playing in the Premiership. However, even though the Clarets were playing top flight football just several years ago, they are rarely considered as a big force in the Championship. It would be fair to say that the Turf Moor outfit
After Blackburn’s hapless owners Venky’s finally lost patience with Steve Kean seven matches into this season, the decision was made to turn to Henning Berg, former centre-half at Rovers and fans’ favourite, charged with the unenviable task of guiding the Lancashire club back to the Premier League at the first time of asking by the
It would be fair to say that Derek McInnes had his hands well and truly tied behind his back last season, after he took over from Keith Millen with City languishing in the relegation zone. While he managed to save them from the drop in relatively comfortable fashion, the pressure was always going to be
One of Ian Holloway’s first duties in succeeding Dougie Freedman as manager of Crystal Palace was to, rather inevitably, answer questions about the future of his prized asset at Selhurst Park, Wilfried Zaha. His response, in his typical eccentric Bristolian register, was to comprehensively rebuff any potential departure. “Can I be polite?” he reversed the
After losing the League One play-off final on penalties to Huddersfield, Danny Wilson didn’t have the best of summers in re-shaping his Sheffield United team for another assault on promotion. Hitting a spot of financial difficulty, a summer of transition awaited after the Blades announced they would have to balance the books, leading to a
On Saturday, 3rd November, Chelmsford City Football Club from the Conference South embarked on their biggest F.A Cup tie to date (arguably!). I have supported Chelmsford City since the 2008/09 season, my first match was at home to A.F.C Wimbledon, the eventual winners of the league, and was hooked ever since that 3-2 win. I’ve
After emerging in the Championship last term, many were not sure what to expect from Brighton this year. While the Seagulls were very impressive last season, there was a worry that they could suffer from the dreaded second-season syndrome this time around. Following the opening couple of months of the campaign, the jury is certainly
‘Better the devil you know…’ and all that. I didn’t really get the grasp of this saying until recently. The only time I had come across this was when I used to work in a concrete factory and we had a new boss taking over. All my co-workers kept saying ‘better the devil you know’
Our fifth Championship so far feature takes a look at Bolton, a side who were relegated from the Premiership only last year. However, even though most people thought that the Trotters would be in very good shape to make an immediate return to the top flight, this has not been the case at all. In