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THE RECENT Soccerex Football Finance 100 showed that English football is the dominant force in world football at the moment. Of the many clubs from the Premier League and Championship, there was one name that certainly made you look twice to ensure your eyes were not playing tricks – Barnsley, the 65th strongest football club in world football. Barnsley? The team of Michael Parkinson, cricket umpire Dickie Bird, Skinner Normanton and brass bands? One of those clubs that, to a large degree, is a standard bearer for regional identity. Barnsley it certainly was, sitting at the bottom of the Championship on the morning of February 15. How could a football club with a turnover of around £ 14 million and a wage bill of…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Barnsley, Championship, Craven Cottage, Fulham, Lead, London, managers, top slot

This Tottenham may have peaked

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on September 3, 2019

WE’VE been waiting for Tottenham to win something for quite some time, in fact, it’s been a decade or more. For all the praise, all the admiring glances and appreciation of Tottenham’s style, commitment to younger players and English swagger, Leicester City, Wigan Athletic and Swansea have won more since the Spurs last went marching on to their trophy cabinet. Some managers have been sacked for less, but we are talking about London N17, not SW6. There’s no denying Tottenham, with their marvellous new ground and clutch of decent players, have a good future, probably more secure than many of their London rivals, but it could be that something needs to change before the club realises its new-age potential. Most teams last for, at…

Categories: Premier League

Tagged: featured, London, Mauricio Pochettino, Premier League, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, trophies

Fulham show calm regrouping pays off

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 11, 2019

ONE YEAR after newly-promoted Fulham were throwing money around and buying players for fun, the Cottagers found themselves back in the more humble surroundings of the Championship. The moneyball experiment, if that’s the right word for the way the club accumulated quantity over quality, was over and some of the higher profile names, notably some under-performing Ligue 1 captures, had been sent out on loan as their contracts are run down. Craven Cottage basked in the summer sunshine and received a battering from the unseasonal winds that whistled down the River Thames. The march to the stadium seemed to have a smaller cast than last season, but then Fulham’s capacity has been reduced owing to the redevelopment of the Riverside Stand. Forty-seven years after…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Blackburn, Championship, Craven Cottage, English Football, featured, Fulham, ground development, London, Promotion, Relegation

New stadiums for old – reinventing a club

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 6, 2019

FOOTBALL fans consider the club stadium as an extension of their personal space. They go misty-eyed when they talk about the terraces they once stood on, the end of the ground they occupied and they stick very close to a long-established ritual of going to the match. The stadium is “home”, integral to the club’s image, identity and culture. Any attempt to relocate often meets severe resistance, mostly because some fans cannot come to terms with their club playing elsewhere. However, there is a shift in supporter sentiment, especially among those that see the benefits of a new stadium, not just from a financial perspective, but also as an opportunity to reinvent a club, attract new fans and build scale – in other words,…

Categories: Culture

Tagged: 1970s football, featured, Football, football stadiums, London, Premier League, redevelopment, Tottenham Hotspur, United Kingdom, West Ham United

Posts tagged “London”

Barnsley chop down Fulham, despite Dennis

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 18, 2020

This Tottenham may have peaked

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on September 3, 2019

Fulham show calm regrouping pays off

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 11, 2019

New stadiums for old – reinventing a club

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 6, 2019