Things we remember about Joe Royle: Oldham’s plastic pitch, Everton winning the FA Cup, Daniel Amokachi being rubbish, a distinct dislike of women in football, a big saggy face, long balls to big men. Well, doesn’t that fill your heart with glee that he is returning to football… probably… somewhere.
Suit yourselves.
But where? Not Leicester, […]

It seems all we ever report on the Championship is the end of a manager’s reign or a loan signing. Today’s big story is the former and it concerns Steve Cotterill’s spell at Burnley. Being over. But you guessed that already.
However, brace yourselves, this isn’t a sacking! No, we can’t believe it either. And the […]

It’s not been a great year for Auntie, what with losing a load of funding, being found out to be dirty rotten cheats ripping of quiz contestants and Gary Lineker still smirking at the camera. So it with a smile on our face that we bring you better news from White City, the Beeb will […]

How the hell do some people continue to get work despite proving themselves to be constantly terrible at their job? Well, we have the secret, as many posts have pointed out our writing is about “as professional FC United”, “as bad as Mark Ronson’s production ” and “shite”. Yet, we are still here, drinking tea […]

For a while it was Kevin Phillips, for ages it was Jason Koumas, there was even some rubbish talked about Robert Earnshaw at some point. But who is currently the best player outside the Premiership? Well, here are some options, but feel free to pick your own?
Kevin Phillips (West Brom) - Is he past it? […]

The Guardian is today reporting that they can smell the rancid reek of “something fishy” going on at the Reebok Stadium. It turns out that Bolton appointed football agent Mark Curtis as a Boba Fett style “headhunter” to catch them a prime managerial body. Unfortunately all Curtis could come up with was some bloke […]

Quite a few Leeds fans have appeared out of the woodwork this season, adopting a Yorkshire accent and claiming to be ‘back from ‘t pit’ when in fact they have spent the last few years following the Premier League and distancing themselves from Yorkshire’s third best team. And it is not just fans that […]

It was back to the rat-race for Championship players at the weekend and they looked more than happy about it; turning in some great performances.
Sheffield Wednesday continued to get their season back on track with a impressive win at Stoke while Watford continued to steamroll their way to the Premiership as Marlon King grabbed […]

Like the first day back at school after half-term, domestic football returns tomorrow and it doesn’t look too appealing. But wait, don’t run off to MFI to buy that decking for garden just yet, their are some appealing fixtures in the Championship. How about Neil warnock’s first game in charge of Crystal Palace? Then, of […]

Warning: none of the following rumours/facts are that interesting in themselves. But put them all together and they create something beautiful, a picture of the Championship on October 5th 2007. So…
High-flying-Bristol City (TM) have confirmed 34-year-old midfielder Alex Russell will be spending a second month on loan at Northampton. Quel surprise.
Cardiff’s trip to Blackpool has […]