Having waltzed to the League Two crown last season, Richie Wellens and his side are handed a difficult start, with three away trips in the first four games. After visiting Charlton and then hosting Portsmouth, Orient will travel to face Wycombe and Blackpool in the space of a few days....
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Both clubs are London’s only representatives in the third tier of English football this term and meet at the earliest opportunity, and then again on Boxing Day. Where last season Plymouth, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday recorded huge points totals, next season looks a lot more competitive. Peterborough will be one...
Through his two-decade-long playing career, David McGoldrick has often joked that his best claim to fame is being able to look back on sharing a home — and a football pitch — with the likes of Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and Adam Lallana. Having been sold by Notts County at...
Darren Moore could not have done much more as manager of Sheffield Wednesday. A record-breaking play-offs comeback, overhauling a 4-0 deficit from the first leg; a last-minute goal in the final to secure promotion; victory over Champions League-bound Newcastle United in the FA Cup; a 96-point regular season in which...
Joaquin Gomez is grateful for sunrise and sunset as he holidays in Malaga during the mid-season break in the Veikkausliiga, the top division of football in Finland. At this time of year back in the country where he is manager of SJK Seinajoki, there is near-constant daylight, meaning getting his...
Amid the gloom of falling short in the League One play-offs last month came a timely sweetener for Bolton Wanderers. A club with aspirations to reach the Championship had reached out to its supporters for financial support and within a week had raised £3.5million ($4.33m) to accelerate its plans for...
It all came down to one last moment and one last throw-in for Sheffield Wednesday. The comeback of all comebacks in the most entertaining game of the EFL season was sealed with the ensuing chaos after Will Vaulks’ long throw into the area was first headed clear, then sent back into...
If there is any pressure that comes with being voted League Two’s young player of the year, then Junior Tchamadeu is not showing it. The 19-year-old Colchester United wing-back’s stellar season left him in high spirits heading into the summer. It would not be a surprise to see interest from...
As the dust settles on the majority of European leagues, a raft of Aussies have enjoyed triumphant title celebrations, suffered the heartbreak of relegation and just about everything in-between. Former Socceroos catapulted themselves back into the spotlight with several impressive performances while for others, they slowly crept further and further...
The relief is palpable in Jon Brady’s voice as he reflects on the season that has just drawn to a close for Northampton Town. “I’m just so happy I didn’t have to think about the play-offs,” the Australian says with a laugh, knowing that his side secured automatic promotion to...