Friday 03 May 2013, 16:41
David Cameron. Gerard Pique’s apparent fascination with Breaking Bad. The weather. Garth Crooks’ team of the week. The state of Syria. Shark attacks. Thatcherism. David Bowie’s cat. If you hadn’t guessed...
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Friday 26 April 2013, 16:22
Twelve months ago, York City were making history for the right reasons. A week after defeating Newport County 2-0 at Wembley to lift the FA Trophy for the first time, the Minstermen came from behind to...
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Thursday 18 April 2013, 15:59
Portsmouth are set to come out of administration and incur the usual penalty. Coventry fan Marc McLaren rues the rule Ten points. Deducted. In the Premier League it would take top-half Fulham into the...
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Thursday 18 April 2013, 15:58
Portsmouth are set to come out of administration and incur the usual penalty. They've had it bad, but Aaron Cox wonders if some clubs are getting off lightly… The Football League: The home of real...
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Thursday 14 February 2013, 11:50
Boosted by loanees from abroad, Gianfranco Zola's team is winning and the Pozzo family haven't broken any rules – but Joe Brewin finds sorrow in the borrowing surplus Crystal Palace manager Ian...
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Friday 01 February 2013, 13:28
The former Leeds, Luton and Sheffield United boss is back in action at Bury after a two-year hiatus, reports Ben Collins Kevin Blackwell's return to football management has been as dramatic as his...
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Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:24
Just over a year ago, FourFourTwo sent a shivering Nick Moore to a miserable Bradford, to sit with fans who understandably couldn't see the cup run coming… “It’s time we admitted that there is more...
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Friday 23 November 2012, 16:20
Back in August, Ryan Kelly stuck his neck out to predict how teams would fare in League Two. Even more bravely, he's come back to assess how he – and the teams – are doing… Writing a season preview...
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Thursday 18 October 2012, 10:59
So, 10 games into the new Championship campaign and already those nasty folk at FIFA have stolen a weekend to play among themselves. But how have things shaped up so far? “It’s a marathon, not a sprint...
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Friday 17 August 2012, 12:00
They say it's the toughest league in the world to predict, which is bad news for Joe Brewin , who we're asking to have a stab... While London swoons after its shiny Olympics, Batman beats up Bane...
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Thursday 16 August 2012, 12:19
The Football League's middle tier kicks off this weekend, and Ian Perkins will be keeping a keen eye on proceedings... The disparity in football finance is evident even in the third tier of English...
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Wednesday 15 August 2012, 15:22
It's not just the Premier League that starts this weekend. We're also previewing the Football League, division by division, starting with Ryan Kelly 's look at the ever-intriguing League Two...
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Tuesday 10 July 2012, 13:36
Many were stunned to see Blackburn sign Nuno Gomes, but Portuguese expert Victor Ferreira thinks the veteran striker will have a ball at Ewood Last week, Blackburn Rovers completed a marquee signing by...
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Friday 13 January 2012, 17:05
It's not all fun leading the pack, says Southampton fan Chris Cox ... For the past few years I’ve looked on with a slight sense of envy as teams other than my own top various divisions. I can remember...
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Friday 16 December 2011, 16:00
Southampton fan and FourFourTwo.com writer Chris Cox tells the recent history of the South Coast derby from his side... The windows are being boarded up, the police are creating their own version of the...
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Friday 16 December 2011, 16:00
Journalist, FourFourTwo contributor and Portsmouth fan Steve Morgan tells the story of the South Coast derby from the blue side... Seventeen miles. One – as Southampton fans will cheerily point out to...
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Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:25
With over a quarter of the Championship season has gone, Christopher Cox provides the low-down on the second tier the action so far… Above expectations Newly promoted Southampton lead the way at this early...
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Friday 21 October 2011, 16:15
This week, the Football League voted to pass the Elite Player Performance Plan – much to the chagrin of Aaron Cox ... The Grim Reaper was welcomed in by the Football League this week as clubs voted to...
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Friday 14 October 2011, 13:50
What's been going on so far in one of the world's toughest leagues? Ed Wilson examines the evidence Championship fixtures come thick and fast, meaning trends and patterns appear with all the clarity...
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Friday 07 October 2011, 13:35
The final defences for the existence of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy are being eroded, leaving it virtually defunct in the minds of managers and fans alike. While it may not have the tantalising prospect...
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Monday 05 September 2011, 10:33
Every year, as the end of the August approaches, transfer business done by Championship clubs tends to be overlooked amid the frenzy generated by Premier League signings. Leicester’s Martyn Waghorn, for...
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Monday 08 August 2011, 16:22
Sven's spending has put a premium on Leicester's league performance, says Ed Wilson As the Championship gets into its swing from its unusually early start date, speculation over the promotion favourites...
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Friday 05 August 2011, 12:08
It’s a well-worn mantle: ‘The toughest division to get out of is the Championship’. Something of an overused phrase perhaps, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Of course, it’s ‘tough’ because it is professional...
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Thursday 04 August 2011, 15:22
League One really is the league that keeps on giving. Well, for the fans of the smaller clubs anyway. While England's third tier has lost the likes of Leeds, Norwich and Southampton to the more glitzy...
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Thursday 04 August 2011, 11:10
The fight for promotion in the fourth tier appears all set to be one of the most competitive and closely-fought in recent years. The rise of cash-rich Crawley Town coupled with the descent of South West...
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Friday 06 May 2011, 14:24
Jonah alert! After watching Stockport get relegated, Ben Collins was despatched to cover Sheffield United's must-win home game with Barnsley. Guess what happened next... Four years ago, Sheffield United...
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Thursday 21 April 2011, 12:34
Guest writer Ben Collins sees Bury join forces with their latest famous friend, Robbie Fowler, in their charge for promotion. While most eyes were on Old Trafford last Tuesday, there was something stirring...
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Friday 15 April 2011, 16:25
If there’s a charming success story to be found anywhere in the Football League this season, then Brighton and Hove Albion’s plucky romp to promotion to the Championship would surely be among the top contenders...
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Friday 08 April 2011, 15:33
Many moons ago there was an advertisement for milk that caused the nation to chuckle, as two youngsters discussed Ian Rush's claims they’d be condemned to playing football for Accrington Stanley if...
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Friday 01 April 2011, 12:30
The date is October 22nd 2010, and the breaking news is that Portsmouth are in serious danger of going out of business for good. Whether you are a fan of the Fratton Park outfit or not, the revelation...
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Friday 25 March 2011, 11:57
Like most South Walians, Owain Jones would love England to get beaten this weekend – but there are bigger matters afoot in that part of the world... In the 1980s and 90s, most young boys in Wales adopted...
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Friday 18 March 2011, 15:50
The final whistle blows at the City Ground. Nottingham Forest’s players trudge off the field, dejected after another winless fixture which takes the tally up to six. Yet again they have dominated possession...
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Friday 04 March 2011, 17:04
With just a dozen matches of the Championship campaign remaining for most sides in the division, it’s time to break out the clichés and assess who will be 'in the mix' for the top spots come the...
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Thursday 24 February 2011, 19:59
There’s as much chance of Norwich City gaining promotion to the Premier League this season as there is Paul Lambert’s favourite colour being yellow. That should encourage the Canaries' supporters then...
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Friday 18 February 2011, 08:30
Fan protests, a manager publicly blasting players and a team steadily sliding down the Championship table. Welcome to a month at Derby County. To use the phrase ‘a season of two halves’ would be quite...
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Wednesday 09 February 2011, 15:45
For much of last season, Nottingham Forest were in the thick of the promotion race, flirting with the top two for much of last winter before eventually finishing in the play-offs and suffering defeat at...
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Tuesday 08 February 2011, 11:35
Last Tuesday we brought you a run-down of the Championship dealings from the January transfer window. As promised, here’s the best of the rest from Leagues One and Two. Activity was somewhat less quiet...
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Friday 04 February 2011, 17:23
By now, we should be absorbing the Olympic Park Legacy Committee’s decision on exactly what will happen with the 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium at the conclusion of next summer’s London Games. However,...
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Tuesday 01 February 2011, 23:09
Phew. The transfer window has finally closed (or “slammed shut” if you worship at the Church of Jim White), and talk of Andy Carroll and Fernando Torres has died down. Well, one out of two ain’t bad… If...
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Friday 28 January 2011, 20:19
FourFourTwo Football League blogger Chris Cox explains why Southampton's bright young thing's interests may be better served by staying with the South Coast club rather than jumping ship for a...
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Friday 14 January 2011, 17:27
After weeks of speculation, Eddie Howe looks set to finally leave Bournemouth for Burnley over the weekend, just days after vowing to stay on at the League One side. The news will be a bitter blow for...
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Wednesday 12 January 2011, 15:57
They say you should never go back in football. But Darren Ferguson certainly doesn’t agree. In a bizarre turn of events, Fergie Jr. has returned to London Road just 14 months after leaving by mutual consent...
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Thursday 06 January 2011, 15:59
December 21st 2008 – the once great Leeds United were marooned in mid-table in League One, the third tier of English football. They had lost five games on the spin, including an infamous defeat to non...
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Wednesday 05 January 2011, 17:27
And so Phil Parkinson becomes the latest casualty of the hotly contested Football League sack race. Despite guiding the Addicks to a play-off spot in League One at the halfway stage of the campaign, Parkinson...
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Tuesday 21 December 2010, 12:00
Last season was a somewhat testing time for Watford fans. Memories of their brief stint in the Premier League in 2006-07 were fading, Brendan Rogers had left the club for Reading and the club's financial...
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Friday 17 December 2010, 16:05
Two of the biggest names in the Championship square up to each other this weekend – and it's the tough guy who's on the ropes, says Joe Brewin ... You'd find it difficult to picture Sven-Goran...
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Thursday 09 December 2010, 17:20
The widespread angst caused by FIFA overlooking England's World Cup bid was felt most keenly in a distant corner of the countrym, says Terry Pierce ... Wednesday saw a repeat of an all-too-frequent...
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Wednesday 08 September 2010, 11:47
FFT.com contributor Carl Burkitt thinks the former Boro boss could be just the man for Southampton... A 4-0 victory away at, the currently inconsistent but always difficult, Bristol Rovers is never a just...
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Friday 13 August 2010, 14:17
FFT.com contributor Toby Higgins thinks it could be a lovely spring in the White Rose garden... The year is 1485. Henry VII is crowned King, England are booed off after another disappointing result, and...
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Friday 13 August 2010, 10:30
FourFourTwo.com writer and Bristol City fan James Martini reflects on an unexpected early twist in the Ashton Gate club's season Fans of Manchester City and Bristol City no longer have just the burden...
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Wednesday 11 August 2010, 11:21
Fans of Yeovil, Hereford and Exeter all trudged home on Tuesday night having seen their sides fall at the first hurdle in the Carling Cup. Yeovil suffered stoppage-time heartache against Crystal Palace...
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Friday 23 July 2010, 07:55
Boro fan Toby Higgins reflects on Gordon Strachan's Glasgowcentric shopping trips... Gareth Southgate the pundit isn't too dissimilar to Gareth Southgate the player. He's calm and composed...
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Tuesday 01 June 2010, 12:54
Diehard Brighton fan and FFT blogger Frankie Alunga finds himself wanting Palace to thrive... In a rivalry that often baffles fans outside of Sussex or South Croydon, Brighton and Crystal Palace fans share...
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Saturday 29 May 2010, 08:00
Southampton vs Norwich - that’s what I predicted for the League One play-off final at the start of the season. I saw the Saints’ summer upturn in finance as a cue for a season of destroying those around...
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Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:13
Congratulations to Ian Holloway and Blackpool then for securing that final play-off place ahead of Swansea City. I told you I was due one ... It must be particularly galling to have been in the play-off...
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Tuesday 20 April 2010, 15:22
It's almost done and dusted at the top of the Championship, but there's the small matter of play-off qualification, a trip to Wembley and for one club the ultimate prize, still up for grabs. Emyr...
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Friday 19 March 2010, 13:13
Another managerial casualty in the Championship. It’s getting a bit dull, all this chopping and changing. Can’t those who make the decisions at the top just allow failing managers to see out their contracts...
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Friday 19 February 2010, 16:30
FFT.com's Championship Correspondent Emyr Price examines a club who've shaken off the loss of their highly-regarded manager In a footballing world dominated by risk-taking over-spenders, tax-dodging...
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Saturday 13 February 2010, 00:00
Championship Correspondent Emyr Price on why there's two positions they're all watching: sixth and 22nd... Whisper it, but it looks like there might be some semblance of order at the business end...
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Friday 05 February 2010, 13:30
FourFourTwo.com's Championship Correspondent Emyr Price on financial shenanigans at Peter Ridsdale's Cardiff City... You couldn’t have made it up. Cardiff City in 2006 was a club crippled with...
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Friday 15 January 2010, 13:30
Summer time in Nottingham, 2009. A promised revolution at Meadow Lane – a foreign takeover, Sven-Göran Eriksson, mountains of cash, and later Sol Campbell arrives as the first big name, big money signing...
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Wednesday 06 January 2010, 15:00
OK, so he hasn't taken the reins at Hull City as predicted back in November , but after less than two months of being – quite literally – out in the cold, the son of the game's most decorated manager...
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Saturday 19 December 2009, 08:00
The circus that is QPR football club has been wowing it's audience, matinee performances 'n all in recent weeks. But if the alleged dressing room dust-up between the now departed Jim Magilton and...
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Wednesday 09 December 2009, 15:00
Poor old Jim Magilton. It looks as if his days in the Loftus Road hotseat are at an end after a bad run of results culminated in his suspension by the club's board following an incident with midfielder...
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Saturday 05 December 2009, 07:00
After Ipswich Town finally managed to grab their first away win of the season at Cardiff City last week, Emyr Price ponders whether this could be the catalyst that sees Roy Keane repeat the Championship...
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Wednesday 02 December 2009, 12:00
Last week, our Championship Correspondent Emyr Price wrote a thought-provoking blog on the nature of England's second tier. Emyr's point was that The Championship is so open because of widespread...
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Wednesday 02 December 2009, 11:30
Another week, another reminder of how tough it is to stay financially sound for Championship clubs flirting with the big time. FFT.com's Championship Correspondent Emyr Price looks at the worries besieging...
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Friday 27 November 2009, 16:00
With just over a third of the season gone, once again The Championship appears tighter than the proverbial duck's *rse. This of course is nothing new. But what does it say about the division itself...
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Friday 13 November 2009, 10:30
FFT.com's Championship correspondent Emyr Price looks at a Hull of a weird week... Strange goings-on at London Road this week. Attempting to untangle the logic of just what's happened over the...
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Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00
FFT.com's Gregg Davies on contrasting campaigns for Brentford and Hereford... What a difference a year makes. Saturday April 26 2008 will live long in the memory for Hereford United. And it can now...
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Tuesday 20 January 2009, 15:00
FFT.com's Gregg Davies casts an eye over the weekend just gone... Kaka? £100 million? No no, we’ll have none of that poppycock in the Football League. No need, when there’s the likes of Joe Ledley...
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Tuesday 25 November 2008, 11:00
FFT.com’s Gregg Davies casts his eye over a few of the ups and downs from the weekend’s Football League action… I’d imagine it’s a tough old job being a sports photographer, particularly a football one...
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Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:00
From the Hartlepool Mail to the Exeter Express & Echo, Up the Football League we go scribe Mike Holden rounds up the big stories being reported in the local newspapers of lower league clubs... The...
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Friday 07 November 2008, 11:00
From the Hartlepool Mail to the Exeter Express & Echo, Up the Football League we go scribe Mike Holden rounds up the big stories being reported in the local newspapers of lower league clubs... The...
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Thursday 23 October 2008, 15:00
An out-of-pocket Mike Holden is dying for someone, anyone, to be given the heave-ho... It’s nearly November, we’re a dozen games into the Championship season and still nobody has been sacked. What the...
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Friday 17 October 2008, 09:00
Mike Holden has sussed out who Huddersfield’s new chairman really is. The man destined to take the Terriers into a bright new era might go by the name of Dean Hoyle but I can actually confirm he’s Richard...
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Thursday 16 October 2008, 13:30
FFT.com's Gregg Davies suffers more away-day misery Swindon fans think they’ve had it rough in recent weeks. The former Premier League outfit suffered their fifth consecutive home defeat last weekend...
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Thursday 02 October 2008, 13:00
Mike Holden explains why he's a happy man now Martin Allen is back on the managerial map... "There has yet to be a dull moment in the fortnight that has passed since Martin Allen took over as...
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Tuesday 23 September 2008, 12:04
An impatient Mike Holden warns against giving too much respect to opponents... including officials The FA’s ‘Respect’ campaign was going rather well until the weekend. OK, so the Football League season...
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Tuesday 16 September 2008, 14:30
A downbeat Gregg Davies recalls an eventful weekend watching his beloved Bulls... Saturday meant Southend and a trip to report on Hereford as the quest continued for a first point on their League 1 travels...
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Tuesday 09 September 2008, 18:00
A humbled Mike Holden reflects on a bad day at the office... Ever had one of those days when you wished you'd never got out of bed? I'm talking about the sort of day when two or three perturbing...
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Friday 05 September 2008, 14:00
Mike Holden casts his eye over Plymouth's new international signing... If you thought Dimitar Berbatov’s move to Manchester United was protracted, get a load of this story about Emile Mpenza’s transfer...
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