Football League Talking Points From This Weekend

Trotters finally out of the tracks

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Robbie Savage’s top 3 English league legends ever... and Emile Heskey - Parody

 I said to myself, Sav, you better do some research for this, watch a DVD of some old football. Then, disaster: the wife comes back early from 'Tanfastic' and has me wading through the house moat looking for a missing fish.

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Keeping hold of your stars - the problem for football league clubs

It is always difficult for smaller clubs to keep hold of their most talented players, especially in today's world where money seems to be the deciding factor in most football related matters. Whilst it can be hoped that a larger, and more financially powerful, club will pay a fair price to sign an up and coming star, what can the selling club do if they don't wish to lose such an individual, and is it often in the player's interest to make the move? 

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United have found their new all-star (Video)

Nick Powell set League 2 alight last year as he propelled Crewe Alexandra up and into League 1 - he even topped off his magnificent season with a screamer in the Play Off Final. 

He capped his United debut this weekend with a goal minutes after his introduction. He put in a performance that has lead many media outlets to hail the youngster as 'the new Paul Scholes'. Quite a tag line considering this was the same game that Scholes would mark his 700th appearance and bag a goal himself. 

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The regretful reality of John Bostock’s fairy-tale

Does anybody remember John Bostock? If not, then it is likely the memory of anybody taking note of the Football league’s emergency loan deadline day this Thursday would be jogged by the winger’s re-emergence as a last-ditch Swindon loan signing.

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Crewe's Acadamy

The name Nick Powell might not mean much to fans of clubs higher up in the Football League, but they may not be waiting too long to find out.

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Teenage star to Ipswich Town, really?

East Anglian local media have cropped up with reports that the teenage star that Paul Jewell has made a bid for in the last few days is Crewe’s 17 year old attacking wonder-kid, Nick Powell.

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Diary of a Soccer Saturday Reporter

Barnsley v Doncaster in the Championship or Morecambe v Crewe in League Two?

That was the choice I had for covering a game for Soccer Saturday this weekend. Perhaps surprisingly, I choose the latter, simply because the wonderfully named Globe Arena is somewhere I'd never been to before.

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There must be a better way

One of the most contentious and pressing issues in English football is how to make the next generation of English footballers as good technically as their Spanish, German or Dutch counterparts.

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Top of the League - We Are Indeed Having a Laugh

So the mighty Shrimpers sit proudly at the top of Npower League 2 (albeit on goal difference).  4 wins in a row, 10 goals scored, none conceded - that's promotion winning form.

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Life is still the same for long-life Gradi as he marks 70

Back in the summer of 1983, Dario Gradi was offered a route back into club football management after being cast into the wilderness as a result of failure at Crystal Palace. That June, he embarked on an unbelievable journey that begins its 28^th year at Gresty Road in charge of Crewe Alexandra.

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Diary of a Sky Sports Football Reporter

It's always interesting to watch a team battle against relegation, invariably they're more exciting games than those involving sides looking for promotion. And after traveling to a couple of relegation-threatened clubs in a matter of a few days, I saw two very different matches and two contrasting results.

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performance of the week goes to...

Most people will be thinking of bright lights of the premier league upon reading that title, and quite rightly so to be fair. Will it be Manchester United’s second half destruction of West Ham United, or Roy Hodgson getting one over on his old club and guiding his West Brom team to a victory over Liverpool, Newcastle hammering Wolves or even in the championship with Norwich battering Scunthorpe?

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