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Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, to the greatest non-football football show on earth. Get your tickets here, for the biannual dignity vacuum that is transfer deadline day, an event that quite literally has something for everyone. Well, everyone apart from Newcastle or Sunderland at the time of writing, but it’s still quite early.
Continue reading...‘In Argentina we say that the job is the electric chair,” Mauricio Pellegrino explained last week of the manager’s gig. “It is not easy to stay in the seat.” The fact that it is easier to stay in an electric chair than almost any other seat – historically, occupants have tended to be strapped to it at multiple points – is irrelevant. We know what the Southampton manager means. And if we don’t, the statistic that eight out of 20 of this season’s Premier League managers had been shown the electrodes by mid-January should bring home the reality of the bronco ride.
As the player transfer window closes, then, there are the familiar worries that things may be amiss. So out of control is the Least Continent League in the World TM deemed that some have revived talk of a managerial transfer window, to temper clubs’ mad pursuit of the short-term managerial bounce. This, it is thought, would force owners to stop chasing waterfalls, and stick to the rivers and lakes they should get used to.
Continue reading...Plus: home teams changing kits mid-game, more manager-owners and Third Lanark. Mail us your questions and answers or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU
“Reece and Ross Glendinning are well-known figures in Northern Ireland’s domestic game,” writes Keith Bailie. “Both played for Linfield, while their father Mark is widely considered to be one of the best full-backs to grace the Irish League. Right-back Reece is on loan from Linfield at Ards, while goalkeeper Ross is at Ballymena United. Last Saturday, Reece scored the only goal in Ards’ 1-0 win over Ballymena, firing past his elder brother. Is this the first time a goalkeeper has been beaten by his own brother in a competitive match (discounting own goals)?”
Pete Tomlin can help. “I know that, on 9 March 1974, Everton striker Bob Latchford scored twice past his older brother David Latchford, who was playing in goal for Birmingham. Interestingly, there was a third Latchford brother, the youngest Peter, who was also a goalkeeper, playing for West Brom and Celtic. If you are interested, I came across a photo of Bob scoring one of his goals past his big bro.”
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