There are some footballers with great names for headlines writers and then there is Wycombe’s Jermaine Easter, the man who allows sub-editors at the tabloids to head to the pub early everytime scores. But will he do it at a higher level? We’ll soon find out, he’s signed for Plymouth in a loan move. Ian […]

For the last ten years the Premiership cash machine has been paying out to clubs across the country, but in one region is still waiting for it’s first payment: A strange place is called the Westcountry.
While people can’t stop swooning at the feet of footballing ‘hotbeds’ like the North-East or North-West, the most interesting thing […]

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 […]

Being young and talented can be tough. We’ve heard. It must be very easy to kick-back with a ham sandwich and game of Pro Evo, knowing undoubted brilliance is always preferable to effort when a manager comes to picking his team. And so it was for Bojan Djordjic (without the sandwiches and computer games, probably), […]

Ian Holloway’s always sallacious and near the knuckle BBC column this week revealed exactly why Alex Ferguson is such a successful manager:
“He’s brilliant because you can leave him a message and within 10 minutes he’s getting back to you. Imagine the number of phone calls he gets and still being that efficient.”
Calling someone back in […]

When Plymouth got to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup last season their undoubted star was on-loan youngstar Scott Sinclair. Now on the fringes of the Chelsea first team, the winger was a class above the players Argyle manager Ian Holloway could bring in for a fee. Now Olly is trying to repeat the trick […]

With a full programme of Championship games this week, it is time for punters to show that they know their stuff outside the Premiership by beating Caughtoffside at our predictions game. Simply go for a home win, away win or draw.
Here are the fixtures, check out our picks and cut and paste into the comments […]

The eternally annoying/entertaining (delete as approapriate) Plymouth Argyle manager Ian Holloway attracts publicity with the ease of Lindsey Lohan. While this is mainly through the use of bad simile and and a comedy accent, he also seems to claim his own fair share of amusing incident, in the case of last week Argyle had their […]

Alan Curbishley is a very nice man, but he’d be a pretty rubbish boxer. If Ricky Hatton and that American guy have taught us anything this week it is that under no circumstances do you give credit to your opponent. Curbs on the other hand is of the vague flattery school, according to the West […]