BY NIALL McCRAE How football clubs are taken from local communities and how supporters fight back ‘You make me happy when skies are grey’, sang the fans of Morton FC (quite appropriately in the west of Scotland climate). But the last line of the adapted popular song, ‘please don’t take my Morton away’, became awfully prescient when the club was threatened with a move to … Continue reading Uprooted by Moneymen
BY STEWART SLATER 2012 may have been a banner year for British sport, but 2008 wasn’t bad either. I was working in Singapore at the time, and whiled away many a happy phone-call back to London bantering about our latest gold medal in Beijing – “Oh, we’ve just won another one” regularly punctuating conversations. But I have one standout memory of that golden summer, the … Continue reading Chapeau
It is only a few years ago when Forest Green were plying their trade in the far flung reaches of the footballing pyramid. Now, Rovers fans will be able to search for special betting offers from sites such as oddschecker, for games against such footballing glitterati as Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday, teams they are competing with on a level playing field. That rise through … Continue reading Forest Green Rovers, A Green Revolution in Football
