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This is not an Everton article
It struck me when writing the small piece about Atlético Madrid for Josh’s La Liga article that I have an unrivalled talent for turning most pieces I write about Everton. Partly it’s subconscious, however it is most definitely a tactic on my behalf as it is a subject where I feel most comfortable.
For the most part, I expect that my writing moving forward on this blog will be less focused on…
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League Two Play Off Final
League Two Play Off Final
I planned this post to be a match report of the play-off final; however, I have little to say about the match, which was a procession. I also don’t have much to say about Northampton – I wrote about their players and style of play in the previous post, and what we saw from them in the play-off final was exactly what I expected. I’m happy for them as a club, and I think they will do well in League…
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League Two Play-Off Review: Semi-Final 2nd Leg
League Two Play-Off Review: Semi-Final 2nd Leg
2nd leg – St James’ Park, Exeter
Both managers took different approaches to their team selection in the return fixture. John McGreal opted to stick; Gambin came into the starting line-up having impressed as a substitute, but otherwise Colchester were unchanged. Matt Taylor however opted to twist, making 4 changes. On-loan Forest full-back Jayden Richardson replaced Sparkes, who had looked rusty…
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League Two Play-Off Review: Semi-Final 1st Leg
League Two Play-Off Review: Semi-Final 1st Leg
As an Exeter fan, I was delighted to learn that the League Two play-offs would go ahead. Although I think ending Leagues One and Two on a points-per-game basis was probably the least worst solution available, given that we missed out on automatic promotion by the barest of margins, we did deserve to have the chance to decide our fate on the pitch. I also thought that, as a fan of lower-league…
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Die Fohlenelf - returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? 2021 Transfer Window Special
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? 2021 Transfer Window Special
With the 2020/21 season seeing Borussia Mönchengladbach improve on their 2019/20 performance, finishing in 3rd and above previous Bundesliga Champions Bayern Munich, it might have been tempting to try and keep the squad as it was at the end of last season as much as possible. However, I finished some way off eventual winners Mainz and with only three seasons left to go for me to win the…
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Die Fohlenelf - returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 4
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 4
After a summer of big investment, expectations are high at BORUSSIA park. I have promised the board that I will qualify for the Champions League once more, even though I expect Leipzig and Dortmund to be challenging this year… Can I manage it? Find out here!
AUGUST 2020
The new season starts with a cup game away at Nöttingen – much like last season, a potential banana skin. But my boys come…
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We Only Rank: World Cups and European Championships since 2002
We Only Rank: World Cups and European Championships since 2002
Yay the Premier League is back tonight. Ok, so maybe sarcasm doesn’t quite come across on the internet but you get the gist. I admit to being a scrooge about this whole endeavour, and sure, I am loving the idea of being able to watch some football again, but it feels a bit ridiculous that I can’t go visit my family, but twenty two men can kick a ball around a field. Such is life.
Rather than…
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La Liga - Our Favourite Clubs
La Liga – Our Favourite Clubs
With La Liga having returned last week, our bloggers (3 of whom enjoyed a memorable weekend in Spain watching football a couple of years ago!) decided to explain who they would be rooting for in the rest of the season and beyond, and why we might want to follow teams even if we live thousands of miles away from them.
Martyn: Valencia
I remember it very well: the long approach through narrow,…
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Never mind the Premier League, here’s the USL Championship!
Never mind the Premier League, here’s the USL Championship!
With the Premier League due to restart imminently social media has been flooded with excitement, expectations, and heart-eyed emojis. However, for this author, another league is due to restart which provides much more excitement, not just for the on-field antics but because of the importance to the global game as a whole, which often goes overlooked. It is, of course, the USL Championship.
The…
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Footballing Guilty Pleasures 3. Macclesfield Town
Footballing Guilty Pleasures 3. Macclesfield Town
Macclesfield Town’s footballing history is, on the face of it, unremarkable. Theirs is mostly a story of non-league football – Macclesfield’s first promotion to the EFL did not occur until 1997. They spent most of the next 15 years marooned near the bottom of League Two, with a brief foray into League One resulting in immediate relegation, before returning to non-league in 2012. This may have…
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Home comforts
The age-old phrase about opinions certainly rings true amongst our group of bloggers. Even when sharing similar interests our views range magnificently. Anyone need watch our podcast to see this dynamic in action, many an episode features an argument between Martyn and Josh whilst Charlie and I sit/stand there patiently waiting for them to stop occasionally picking perfect moments to get little…
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Die Fohlenelf - returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? 2020 Transfer Window Special
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? 2020 Transfer Window Special
Welcome to this summer 2020 transfer window special. Initially, I had intended to include this in the next article of the series, the 2020/2021 edition, but the transfer window quickly escalated into something that deserved its own article for Mönchengladbach – with 7 out-going and 7-incoming transfers. Last season gave me plenty of food for thought: defensively, my side were very solid as proven…
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Die Fohlenelf - returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 3
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 3
With a superb first-half of the season under our belts, can my Gladbach side continue their good form after the winter break and make it into one of the Champions League spots, as well as progress deeper into the Europa League? Part 3 of this series details January’s transfer business and provides an overview of the second-half of my first season in charge of Die Fohlen. Enjoy!
OUTS
Oscar WENDT –…
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Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 2
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of this series – if you didn’t read part 1, I have set myself the five-year challenge of guiding Borussia Mönchengladbach to a first Bundesliga title in over thirty years on Football Manager 2020. This instalment details how the first half of the 2019/20 season goes for Die Fohlen, following a busy summer of transfer activity… Enjoy!
First DFB Pokal game – 10th August 2019…
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Football Without Fans
It’s been a long two months without any live sport. At first, it wasn’t so bad – both the BBC and Sky have been quite good at putting on replays, while Exeter City’s social media team have done a wonderful job replaying classic matches from the last 15 years on Saturday afternoons. There are also some great sporting documentaries on Amazon and YouTube in particular. But nothing can quite match…
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Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 1
Die Fohlenelf – returning Mönchengladbach to their glory days? Part 1
November, 4th 2017. I remember the day well – and not just for the lack of sleep. It was the day that Charlie and I left our respective homes at 2am to get an early-morning flight from Stansted to Dortmund for our first foreign football weekend together. Why, you might ask? Well, our initial, (somewhat naïve) plan was to get tickets for the Dortmund vs. Munich game happening on the same day. We…
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A childhood of trying; a childhood of failure
A small insight into Gareth's forays into the footballing scene... spoiler: he's not the most talented
One cold Saturday morning in a village outside of Manchester, Timperley Tornadoes were competing in an intra-squad friendly. Dog walkers shuffled past the few spectators on the otherwise barren village green as twenty-two players of various ages and abilities followed their usual weekly routine of kicking around a white ball. The pitch was in a far from perfect condition, but the weather was…
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