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Posts tagged “Forest Green Rovers”

Macclesfield: The Silkmen eventually cometh

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 27, 2020

IT HAS not been a good season for Macclesfield Town and the future remains very uncertain for a club that ranks among the smallest in the Football League. Just 35 miles away, Bury provides a reminder of what can happen to a club that loses its way and becomes the victim of financial mismanagement and owner dissatisfaction. If nothing goes according to plan, Macclesfield may yet go the same way as Bury, although the club’s current owner, Amar Nouri Alkadhi, claims he is having “superior negotiations” with a potential buyer. That may well be Joe Sealey, the son of the late Coventry and Manchester United goalkeeper Les Sealey. Some fans are sceptical that discussions are taking place at all. Macclesfield have just appointed their…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Forest Green Rovers, League Two, Macclesfield Town, Moss Rose ground, top slot

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Major clubs need to create the right climate

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 27, 2020

RIGHT NOW, climate change is a very topical issue, and rightly so. If the scientists are correct, we may all face some serious issues in the relatively near future, issues that cannot be ignored or dismissed as scaremongering. Football has to ask itself what role it can play in combating climate change. We are told that there are three things that we most certainly do as a start: ensure we do not waste food; eat less meat like beef and lamb; and travel less by air. Although these three conditions may seem rather trivial, consider the impact on the football industry and the periphery of the game. But first of all, we should ask how much energy it takes to put a game of…

Categories: Football politics

Tagged: Brazil, climate change, Dartford, featured, Forest Green Rovers, pitches, pollution, Qatar, top slot

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Major football clubs need to create the right climate

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on September 1, 2019

RIGHT NOW, climate change is a very topical issue, and rightly so. If the scientists are correct, we may all face some serious issues in the relatively near future, issues that cannot be ignored or dismissed as scaremongering. Football has to ask itself what role it can play in combating climate change. We are told that there are three things that we most certainly do as a start: ensure we do not waste food; eat less meat like beef and lamb; and travel less by air. Although these three conditions may seem rather trivial, consider the impact on the football industry and the periphery of the game. But first of all, we should ask how much energy it takes to put a game of…

Categories: Football politics

Tagged: Brazil, climate change, Dartford, featured, Forest Green Rovers, pitches, pollution, Qatar

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Forest Green Rovers and another way

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 10, 2019

FOOTBALL IS, in many ways, a one dimensional game – its simplicity, its demographic and its popular appeal make it ideal for the masses. Regardless of the number of causes the industry attaches itself to, the essence of football remains entertainment for the people, the creation of loyalty and allegiance and, ultimately, forlorn expectation. Traditionally, we have associated the game with grimy back streets, smoking chimneys, the curled-up collar, the moth-eaten scarf and the crowd, Lowryesque in its composition, marching religiously to the match, using the skeletal floodlights as their marker point. Beacon Forest Green Rovers is different, a beacon of modernity that captures the zeitgeist and reminds us there is a totally alternative way to run a football club, a model that could…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: climate change, ecology, featured, Forest Green Rovers, League Two, Oldham Athletic, Opening day

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