Following on from Aylesburyblue’s excellent article, we have a new guest contributor who has written the following article: With the continued speculation of Craig Gardner joining Sunderland and the uproar over his disloyalty to the club which he supports, I thought about loyalty in football and whether there was any way that this could be brought
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That’s a word I’ve heard a bit over the last two weeks. Firstly it was used for Alex McLeish’s exit and now I’m hearing it aimed at Craig Gardner. But are we betrayed when players and managers want to return to the highest level? Let’s look at the manager first. A brief summary of a
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Booing No, not the sound Zebedee makes in the ‘Magic Roundabout’, that has an extra letter ‘i’ in it! No, this is the magical debate about whether it’s right or not to boo your team, and – if so – when it’s right. Personally I’ve never booed my team, though I must confess to having
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Simon and I have exchanged similar questions after Saturday’s game. Here are Simon’s answers and mine are here. 1. Obviously you must be disappointed that you lost, how did you see the game? What was your general impression of the performances of both sides? At the match itself, I was absolutely gutted. I then rather
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After missing last week’s game, Bazza returns with his take on yesterday. It seemed a long time since the buzz of going to football had been upon me. I had missed the Blackburn game last week as Will, Chris and I had all been involved in a 36 holes golf match last Saturday and had
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