Dyches to Watch Out For - The Football League and Beyond, 2012-13

no alcohol but entire gastrointestinal canal glows orange in darkened rooms due to >3000ml/ day lucozade intake

http://truelad.com/Banter/389271

that banter moved me

head the size of a tennis ball, pathos like a roddick serve

how can you be so disrespectful of that TrueLAD

it's almost like you want him to fail

Any advice you’d give to Loughborough footballers still looking for a route in the professional game?

All I would say keep it simple. Focus on what you can do and nothing else. I’ve seen players change because they hear they have had interest from other clubs, or that scouts are at their games. I had that two seasons before while I was at Tamworth FC. I didn’t react well, subsequently my performances were way below my standard I hoped for. With all that, unfortunately luck and timing still have a huge part to play in becoming a professional footballer.

Another thing that helped me was that I worked on many of the weaknesses that I knew others felt I had. For example countless managers thought I was too small and lightweight. So I spent a long time on my jumping and ways to protect the ball. These slight improvements just helped my all round game, and although I doubt I’m no bigger than I was when I was 16 years old, I have more confidence to compete.

pritchard regards the agency of luck as misfortune

only self-determinism and graft for our bradley

surprised i haven't read a fawning broadsheet article about this dude already

traditionally i will rep for fitba players from strange backgrounds or those who make a circuitous route to the top

when he gets a zimbabwe call-up, people will notice

unless he's already been approached and turned it down on humanitarian grounds, would be just like him

a lot of successful brazilian players have pretty humble bluecollar type stories, gilberto silva was a factory worker and i think grafite was a door to door salesman

rep for ian wright, your time starts now

andres iniesta was a chimneysweep from the ages of seven to fifteen

Pritchard's an ex-BBC Sport columnist (during his time at Tamworth). Think was a year or two after Gavin Strachan Blog.

I can fully imagine Chris Powell as the lead character in a football version of Borgen.

Saunders might not be a bad choice - writing off what happened at Doncaster last season (which I don't think anyone could really have dealt with), he's got Rovers pushing to come straight back up, and he did a very solid job at Wrexham too. Putting aside the whole Sean-o Finally Gets His Shot At The Big Time dream, Wolves could probably do a lot worse.

So this week started with us finding out that Chester were expelled from the league, which means that the six points we earned will be wiped out. It does leave a bitter taste in your mouth when you think that another team's problems have had such a significant impact on us.

man's inhumanity to man

Trying to fill out the rest of the cast of Borgen: Football Edition has now led to me inventing the idea of Manish/Claridge slashfic. I am a horrible person.

only now, I get the Bloody

It was slightly surreal though to hear the booing come from behind the dug-out. When I came off, I think I actually heard one of their fans heckle me: "Oi Pritchard! You're just as bad as your blog!"
To be honest, it was great timing and delivery from that man, so I have to give him credit.

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Passions were high, and I think the match became a bit too intense because Geebo (assistant manager Darron Gee, who was referee) had had enough of players appealing for everything, especially after Jerome (Murdock) kicked the ball out with no one around him, and his arm shot up claiming the throw-in.
He threatened to send off the next player who tried to cheat. This worked in my favour because our winning goal was set up by me taking three touches (we always play two-touch).

cmon this is awesome material, gavin strachan must have been weeping into his pillow

http://i.imgur.com/rjeno.jpg

Position:
Midfielder
Nationality:
Zimbabwean
D.O.B:
19th December 1985
Height:
6'1" (186 cm)
Weight:
14st 2lbs (90Kg)

http://ask.fm/SaraSkinnerGomes/answer/7397672823

pd nakhchivan sat back in his chaise longue, adjusted his cravat and determined to get stuck the fuck into that laudanum he'd been saving

"I have told the players that, in the first 10 minutes, we have to show the supporters we mean business.

I’m sure they will be on the edge of their seats. We have got to give them something to cheer. If the tempo of our game is too slow, it will be like sitting in a library.

Wolves supporters get excited by effort and passion and we’ve got to excite the supporters. I want to sit in the dugout and enjoy what I’m watching.”

oh christ effort and passion this is gonna be deadly

so excited to watch them tonight tho

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-20972466

New Ipswich Town signing Aaron McLean has criticised the state of town centre shopping as "rubbish".

The striker, 29, who signed on loan from Hull City last week, wrote on his Twitter account that "to say the shops are dead is an understatement".

David Ellesmere, Labour leader of Ipswich Borough Council, said McLean's comments were "disappointing".

McLean later apologised and said his remarks were no reflection on his commitment to the football club.

McLean signed on loan for Ipswich last week and made his debut on Saturday
Mr Ellesmere said: "I think that Aaron probably needs to see a little bit more of Ipswich, but perhaps he should be concentrating on his efforts on the pitch.

"Ipswich town centre, like town centres all over the country, is suffering because of the poor state of the economy.

"We've just introduced new car parking deals, we spent money on improved Christmas lights which increased footfall, we're looking at ways of improving the Cornhill and linking up the town centre and waterfront, so there are lots of plans in place to make the town centre better."

McLean later wrote on Twitter: "Listen anyone taken offence to me saying the shops in Ipswich are rubbish I apologise.

"I've been coming to Ipswich for 10 years and my lil sis is from here so it's banta wiv us.

"Please don't take it the wrong way. Club wise it's brilliant and I'm buzzing to be here."

well tempo's there, just not a braincell in amongst it

sorely need someone to put a foot on the ball and pull a string or two but i guess u might already be aware of that eh

doyler looking so stale i had to open a window

so cynical, this exciting new hump the ball forward style paid off with a whole two shots on target, which is more than enough for a home team made up of the least talented cunts in the universe.

nah joeks, Saunders is bullshit

told u doyle was shit back when he was merely shit

Doyle is a perfectly adequate mid-League One player but i take your point, he was still better that 90 per cent of the waxworks he was playing in front of

hull keeper just had the worst 2 seconds of his life

my dad just live-blogged it on the phone, dude stayed down for 10 minutes then got stretchered off, swear it was out of embarrassment

Manager Dean Saunders today insisted his side must ‘toughen up’ on the road and get back to liking the ugly stuff if they are to climb the table.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/217/7/0/why_would_a_wolf_cry__by_sianiithewolf-d59w7bl.jpg

The new Rovers manager sees it rather differently. "This is a Premier League club with a great history," he said.

"It is still one of only five clubs to have won the Premier League title, so it was a no brainer for me. There's a great challenge ahead with potentially massive rewards. I want to work in the Premier League and this is a club where I can achieve that ambition. I'd be amazed, take away the top six or seven, if there was another manager in the country who would have made a different decision."

if the famed ewood undersoil heating holds up i look forward to our boys putting the first puncture-hole in the USS Appleton (rigid-structure dirigible, hydrogen gas) tomorrow

hang on i watched Blackburn last Friday they was pish

*chicken dance*

Shots 2
On Target 0
Corners 3
Fouls 15

DEAN-OOOOO DEAN-OOOOO DEAN-OOOOO

finally convinced beyond any doubt that we are utterly fucked until Morgan and Moxey go

Brentford
2
Hayes 16′Donaldson 39′

Leyton Orient
2
Rowlands 6′Cook 86′

:D

That cunt Rowlands. Was the ref wot robbed us, apparently. A dodgy red for our only decent left-back means he's suspended for the Chelsea game (which I now have a ticket for so at least something has gone right).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOj8RtQMhfE

ouch

Pah. I spent my formative years watching football from the exact spot that video was taken. This probably explains why I never developed an understanding of shape, tactics, etc (obv the quality of early 90s Brentford didn't help).

mcleish surveys what o'driscoll has left him and says yep, darius henderson

y'know i akshully think Deano might be a good manager, unfortunately he's stuck at a club playing Blue Square wages

lol at Forest having to deny McLeish out already

>:|

It is the first time Hartley and Poole have combined to score for the third-tier's bottom side.

I saw that earlier. Beautiful. Would have been better still if they'd done it the right way round.

McLeish out

lol billy davies return, yes please