This Weekend's Football League Talking Points

Rain curtails Charlton misery

Tipped by many to be potential Championship dark horses, the early stages of the season has seen Charlton look more like relegation material than promotion chasers. Having picked up just a single point from their opening three fixtures, none of which could be viewed at the tougher end of the difficulty scale – they then found themselves three goals down to newly promoted Doncaster inside 23 minutes.

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League 2 season preview 2013/14 - Too tight to predict?

Accrington Stanley are the bookmakers favourite to face a drop into non-league this season, but at 9/2 with Ladbrokes and 4/1 among many others in the market, does this show the old Division 3 to be unpredictable – possibly even something worth keeping an eye on over the next nine months?

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Joe Kinnear returns to Newcastle - Reaction (Video)

I am probably not the only person who was taken completely by surprise with the announcement that Joe Kinnear was to be given the position of 'Director of Football' at Newcastle United.

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5 Classic relegation D-Days

Whichever way you look at it you can't deny that the final day of the Premier League was somewhat of a damp squib particularly in terms of the relegation battle, afterall we didn't even get that wonderful last day episode of Match of the Day that takes us through the 90 minutes in a story like manner from around all the relevant grounds. With that in mind we remember six of the most thrilling final day relegation battles:-

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David Beckham's finest moment (Video)

OK, I promise this is the last thing you'll hear about David Beckham. Promise.

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Up the Northern league's we go

It looks like being three years and three league titles for Chester FC as they sit 16 points clear of Guiseley on top of the Conference North, and with only a single defeat. After the demise of Chester City it was time for a supporters group known as ‘City Fans United’ to step in.

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Is £62 too much to pay for a ticket to football?

With Manchester City returning 912 unsold tickets to the Emirates Stadium, just how much are football fans willing to pay to watch their club?

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The Crazy Gang (Video)

AFC Wimbledon (as they are called now) have had a rather tumoltuous couple of years. All that relegation business with all that MK Dons business and then renaming themselves and then promotions: it's all happened to the team from south west London.

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A Derby Too Far- MK Don 2-1 AFC Wimbledon

'With a subtle fingers up to all that was MK Dons, the team that wouldn't die had made it's point against the team that many wish would. ' 

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How to build a professional football club

We all know the stories of AFC Wimbledon and their ambitious counterparts, but just how do you build a professional football club? Well, look no further than just over the Atlantic Ocean as new MLS side, Montreal Impact tell exactly how to do it.

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Diary of a Sky Soccer Saturday Reporter

There's usually a point in the season when short sleeves and a pair of trousers are inappropriate for wearing at a football match, it's too cold for that attire!

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Crazy Gang bang on route to right the wrongs

Yesterday saw the return of the name 'Wimbledon' to the football league pyramid. After the travesty that saw their club move 70 miles away, the fans of Wimbledon as they knew it had to do something drastic, and that's exactly what they did. They ditched their league status that for so many years had been the Premiership, and they formed AFC Wimbledon. The rest as they say is history.

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