Dave Worley

Bellamy getting excited about travelling with Cardiff.

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

In the press conference at his unveiling at Cardiff City today, he said this: “I grew up in this league. It’s a lot of games, travelling to a lot of places.” Right… The first bit, fair enough: he spent five seasons at Norwich then a season at Coventry before shipping off to Newcastle. He’s also [...]

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“How Football Manager has changed the way football is consumed” – My Footie Manager Essay!

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Having read this back, I am frankly amazed that I got a first for this. It’s pretty subjective and informal, although in this sense I think there was an advantage that Mick Gornall was marking it! Oh yeah, don’t try nicking it, this site’s fully searchable by various plagiarism detectors as well as all major [...]

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Neil Clement… A True Albion Hero.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

There’s a lot I’ve wanted to write about since new year. More retail stuff, a blog about the FA Cup, the usual ideas of world politics. But today I discovered something that I couldn’t consign to the depths of laziness. Today I found out that centre-half Neil Clement has retired from professional football at the [...]

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The Story So Far

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Albion have started predictably well in the Championship and I think now the transfer window has closed it’s time to look back with some confidence about the first five games of the league season. An opening draw with Newcastle was fully expected but it was Tim Kruk that really prevented Albion taking all three points [...]

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