The football world near and far stood agog two years ago when Leicester City won the league. As I write this in the yaw of the Beast from the East that the media like to thrash us with, my thoughts turned to Hurricane Claudio who whipped up a fair bear in the East Midlands. It […]
Author : Henry Muldrew
Bronze shine brightest: Championship crowds brex Europe’s best efforts.
Like Bowie’s ‘Jean Genie’ in 1973 and Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’ in 1981, quality doesn’t always get to the top. A league table of European attendances was published recently and nestling third behind Germany and the English Premiership sat the English Championship, hardly lifting its head to notice, but just getting on with keeping its hand on […]