Max and co cover the weekend FA Cup action, bad tackles, Neil Warnock’s geography lessons, the latest transfer activity and moreRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts,Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paul MacInnes and Lars Sivertsen to look back on another weekend of high-octane football action, starting with Tottenham’s shock 1-1 draw at Newport’s Rodney Parade. One player in particular comes in for some pointed criticism. Continue reading...
In the first blog of our weekly Football League series, John Ruddy says he hopes his fellow goalkeeper, who has leukaemia, will be part of any promotion partyAt times this season, John Ruddy has enjoyed possibly the best view in the house. “We have had some games where I am literally just watching in awe of what they are doing,” the Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper says. His team-mates may have lit up the Championship but the ever-present Ruddy has brought plenty to the table too, notably 15 clean sheets, more than any other team in the country.He is engaging and erudite, and makes tremendous company at the club’s training complex during a conversation that spans from never giving up on playing...
League One leaders win 4-0 to puncture euphoria at AFC Wimbledon after club was cleared to return to their spiritual home of Plough LaneEmotions ran high at Kingsmeadow on Saturday, when Wimbledon got their celebrations in first and Wigan Athletic went home with a 4-0 win, emphasising their right to top League One and sending them from 20th to 23rd.Wimbledon’s celebrations were nothing to do with the match but rather the news that, barring a judicial review, for which there is a six-week window, the club have cleared the last hurdle on their way back to Plough Lane, their spiritual home for 100 years. The plan is for a £25m, 11,000-seat ground 250 yards down the road, on the site...
A 2-1 loss and some unpleasant vitriol from the stands made it a day to forget for Boro’s manager on his first visit back to Elland RoadAs football soundbites go, the summer declaration by the Middlesbrough owner, Steve Gibson, that his club would “smash the league” in their attempts to return to the Premier League this season is slowly but surely looking like one of the more misguided utterances.It certainly threatens to become a millstone around the neck of his manager, Garry Monk, whose return to Leeds United – the club he left in controversial circumstances to work for Gibson following Middlesbrough’s relegation last season – ended in a defeat that ended his team’s recent mini-revival. Related: Leeds United 2-1...
John Coleman spotted two misdemeanours where the referee did not as Cambridge United held his side at bay in League TwoA day after VAR made its inconspicuous British bow at Wembley Accrington Stanley felt it could have come in handy at Cambridge United. John Coleman, their manager, thought they should have had two penalties. “We’re not into video technology yet,” he said, before acknowledging, “but the referee’s got to make a split decision.”Coleman’s frustration was understandable. Victory would have put them top of League Two, with Notts County drawing. But in the hard-fought event it was probably as well no split‑second decision at either end separated the sides from goalless equality. In any case a year ago, with Cambridge leading...