Posts tagged “Promotion”

HARROGATE is synonymous with tea, relaxation and rising house prices. It’s rated as one of the happiest places in Britain and has a gentle, refined air about it, thanks to its heritage as a spa resort. Such a setting seems an unlikely backdrop for the latest new club to join the English Football League (EFL), but it will be no great surprise if the Yorkshire town becomes visiting fans’ favourite away day destination – when the world returns to somewhere near normality, that is. Harrogate Town, founded in 1914, secured their place in League Two by beating Notts County 3-1 at Wembley in the play-off final on the weekend of “Yorkshire Day”. How ironic that the “Sulphurites”, a reference to a bygone age, have…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Harrogate, Harrogate Town, League Two, National League, play-off, Promotion, Wembley, Yorkshire

Championship survival the short-term objective for Huddersfield Town

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on June 12, 2020

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN will restart their 2019-20 Championship campaign behind closed doors on June 20 against Wigan Athletic, hoping they can successfully avoid a second successive relegation. The Terriers are three points from the drop zone and have nine games remaining to save themselves, including that definite “six-pointer” against Wigan, who are one point and two places behind them in 20th position. Another relegation would be a disaster just 12 months after the club lost its Premier League status, both financially and psychologically, but there are much bigger issues at stake for the Championship and the divisions below. Huddersfield’s owner, Phil Hodgkinson, has predicted that as many as 60 clubs could disappear if the coronavirus crisis does not end soon. Indeed, with talk of the…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Championship, Danny Cowley, Huddersfield Town, Lead, Premier League, Promotion, Relegation, top slot

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

The road to step two doesn’t need to be feared

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 19, 2016

THE POPULAR VIEW is that the jump from Southern and Ryman Premier to step two is a big one. Too many supporters wring their hands in anguish at the prospect of their team not being equipped to survive elevation to the executive suite of non-league football. But there’s good news for aspiring play-off candidates. The promoted clubs’ records over the past five years go a long way to disproving the theory that an ordeal awaits the victors. Take the Ryman League. Over the past half decade, and not including last season’s promoted clubs, just two of the 10 have been relegated at the first attempt – Billericay Town and AFC Hornchurch. In 2009-10, Dartford and Boreham Wood were both promoted to Conference South. Dartford…

Categories: Non-League

Tagged: Isthmian League, Promotion, Southern League

Posts tagged “Promotion”

Harrogate – the happy town waiting for league football

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 3, 2020

Championship survival the short-term objective for Huddersfield Town

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on June 12, 2020

Fulham show calm regrouping pays off

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 11, 2019

The road to step two doesn’t need to be feared

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 19, 2016