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Joe Ferrari reports from Norwich on why the clamour for Robert Chase's departure is getting louder by the day
Norwich City’s traditional Yuletide slide – two points from seven games – took on deeper significance this year, set against a backdrop of bitter division on and off the pitch, blame for which can be laid squarely at the door of club chairman Robert Chase.
Lance Bellers remembers Harry Cripps, who passed away on December 29, 1995
’Arry Cripps was the best player ever to have a name beginning with an apostrophe. Born as Henry Richard Cripps in Norfolk during the war, it merely took a move to East London to give him his proper and rightful name. Kicking off his football career at West Ham, he played just one senior game for the Hammers – against Millwall. Between that Southern Floodlit Cup fixture in 1956 and an eventual move to Charlton in 1974, ’Arry Boy fitted in 447 appearances for the Lions and won the hearts of the Millwall faithful.
Reading supporters knew how Leicester City fans felt when Mark McGhee decamped to Wolves, as Roger Titford explains
What’s so great about Mark McGhee that he’s managed to break 25,000 hearts in Reading and Leicester and cost his new employers around £1 million compensation in the past twelve months? What makes him last year’s most expensive temp?
Robert Rea fears that an American-style system may be about to spread to English football
“Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards has finally completed the controversial multi-million pound deal to move his club to Milton Keynes. The first game at their new ground, the Super Bowl, will be at the beginning of next season against Warrington Wednesday.’’
Owen Davies argues that borrowing a different idea from Europe might prove a lifeline for Cardiff City
The cat was barely out of the bag before the FA of Wales was trying to beat it to death. “We will oppose the plan even if it means Premiership football coming to Cardiff.” God forbid that quality football should threaten the reign of mediocrity in South Wales.