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Birmingham well placed for better season despite frustration at lack of signings

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Harry Redknapp has been exasperated by slow transfer activity which has hindered Blues’ start, but there should be no repeat of last year’s relegation struggle

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From the archive ~ Homeless and broke: remembering Brighton’s darkest days

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The Seagulls are about to start their first top-division season since 1982-83 but their fans have been through tough times in between, as Kevin Bartholemew explained in WSC 117, November 1996

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Illegal payments, blackmail and Herbert Chapman – the sorry tale of Leeds City

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Before Leeds United proved that the city can support a top-flight football club, Leeds City showed exactly how not to do it in 15 years of chaos

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Coventry’s on-pitch woes shine light on off-field turmoil

The Sky Blues are without a win in the league, their Ricoh Arena rental deal is due to expire and the category two status of their academy is under threat

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Extra time made redundant by more TV-friendly formats

The additional 30 minutes is already making way for penalties in some competitions

22 August ~ “No one wants to see extra time.” Late into this month’s Community Shield match, Manchester United and Leicester City locked at 1-1, Radio 5 Live co-commentator Danny Mills expressed relief the game would go straight to penalties. Listening in my car as a vaguely interested neutral, I instinctively agreed. Mills then followed up by claiming all drawn knockout games should go straight to a shootout because, really, there had only been a few decent periods of extra time ever played – in any competition. I almost crashed.

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