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Matthew Brown explains why the Football in the Community scheme at Leyton Orient is setting a trend for others to follow
At the northern end of Brisbane Road, the street that gives its name to Leyton Orient’s home ground, beyond the players’ entrance and the club shop, is a small Portakabin-style building. Inside, a few old desks and chairs are scattered around two small rooms.
Rupert Murdoch may have been rejected but Manchester United fans are expecting another takeover bid, as Michael Crick explains
When Stephen Byers’s announcement came, it didn’t actually surprise us. It had been clear since late January, when six members of Shareholders United Against Murdoch (SUAM) attended a hearing with the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC), that they were taking the competition arguments against BSkyB much more seriously than we’d realised.
Cheltenham Town are to become the Football League’s newest members. Mark Herron explains how they did it
In 1994, the new chairman of Cheltenham Town’s neighbours and Doc Martens League rivals Gloucester City announced matter of factly that the team would win promotion to the Conference within two years, to the Football League within five and would throw in an appearance in the FA Trophy final for good measure.
Winning promotion to the League proved to be a disaster for Maidstone United. Steve Hemsley is watching their slow climb back
Believe it or not, one of the most sought-after football programmes in Kent is for Scunthorpe United’s opening game of the 1992-93 season. The reason for this oddity is that it was the last Football League programme published for a game involving Maidstone United.
Ken Gall explains why fans are fuming at the press response to the recently proposed merger of the two Dundee clubs
When Peter Marr – nightclub owner and chairman of Dundee FC – raised the possibility of his club merging with neighbours Dundee United, there was, unsurprisingly, uproar among the fans of both clubs. Slightly more surprisingly, there was also a flurry of favourable comment in the Scottish press.