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Weekend Recap – The 2009 – 10 Season

League Two was dominated by the media frenzy of Notts County, yet Rochdale came out of nowhere to win promotion with ease before taking their foot off the gas. Barnet mirrored my team Watford by freefalling in 2010 only to stutter to safety. Maybe their average age of 47 didn't help them, come season-end. Looking back to my first post on this blog, I predicted the following pretty accurately: Watford to finish 17th [actually finished 16th] West Brom / Leicester / Cardiff to challenge for promotion. Norwich to do well [because they have a good management set up - which got sacked two weeks in!![ READ MORE ]

Special sponsors…

West Brom currently 'negotiate their shirt sponsorship' match-by-match. So...they don't have a long-term sponsorship deal as they over-valued themselves last year and this year. For the record they were the first and only team to go a full season without a shirt sponsor. [ READ MORE ]

UPDATE: Naming Rights Not Wrong..

So as I sit down and glance over the paper’s yesterday it is unveiled that Mike Ashley had announced he was prepared to sell the naming rights to St James’ Park.  Clearly he must have read my article on Tuesday.  The hoo-haa demonstrates my opinion that naming rights has a future in the sport but [ READ MORE ]

Sponsors’ football fling over?

Obviously 'in this current economic climate', the incentive for companies to be drawn into long-term expensive contracts with seemingly immeasurable return has diminished. The very nature of the companies involved with football sponsorship has also altered radically even within the past five years[ READ MORE ]

Friday night lights…

So it begins again..a mere 74 days after Burnley won the play-off final, the start of the Championship is upon us. Ludicrously and somewhat anti-climatically Middlesbrough host Sheffield United on Friday thanks to Sky Sports' influence[ READ MORE ]

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