Appletonometer The Appletonmeter is the rolling accumulation of points over 46 league games. That is, a full season. We ended… READ MORE
I enjoyed retro day, it’s not easy making every match a genuine occasion in the modern game. We sit in… READ MORE
The drop Perhaps Yeovil are a different team to the one we last encountered, but I’ve always thought of them… READ MORE
If you Google ‘Hillsborough’, as you might expect, you get pictures of people being crushed to death in 1989. The… READ MORE
The drop A distraction or an opportunity? The problem with the start of the season is the mush of league… READ MORE
Teams that win promotion show a relentless quality. If you consider the difference between promotion and the play-offs last year… READ MORE
The drop It doesn’t feel like it, but Tuesday was only our third League game of the season; two against… READ MORE
There’s a benign quality about early season mid-week football. Unlike later in the season, the mood is 90% blind optimism,… READ MORE
The drop There are typically two reactions to relegation; the first is the development of a sense of entitlement to… READ MORE
‘We’d have lost that last year’ one person inevitably said after the big comeback draw against Luton. It’s one of… READ MORE

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