Midweek Muse

Midweek Muse: Croatia have the pedigree and the history to go a long way at Euro 2016

June 15, 2016

Croatia opened their Euro 2016 on Sunday with a deserved 1-0 win over Turkey that should have seen a more comfortable winning margin. With the three points secured, they will [...]

Midweek Muse: England – Day One to Euro 2016 in 17 Players

June 8, 2016

On St Andrew’s Day 1872, England and Scotland played out a 0-0 draw in the first ever international football match in Glasgow. Tom Simmonds was moved to see how quickly he [...]

Midweek Muse: Musical Footballers

May 25, 2016

A new football biography released last week, Oliver Kay’s Forever Young, tells the story of Adrian Doherty, a brilliant youth prospect who played in the same Manchester [...]

Midweek Muse: Grimsby Town’s stability has been the key to their promotion success.

May 18, 2016

Grimsby Town’s 3-1 win over Forest Green Rovers in Sunday’s National League Promotion final secured their return to the Football League after a six year exile. The [...]

Midweek Muse: How Bristol Rovers and Burton Albion achieved back to back promotions

May 11, 2016

Bristol Rovers and Burton Albion achieved back to back promotions at the weekend. Tom Simmonds looks at those whose footsteps they are following in, and at what might be in [...]

Midweek Muse – Sean Dyche’s unique cocktail inspires Burnley to promotion

May 4, 2016

Managerial mixologist Sean Dyche has found the perfect blend for Championship success, explains Tom Simmonds. Burnley secured one of the two spots up for grabs in the [...]

Midweek Muse: Can end of season form tell us how teams will fair next year?

April 27, 2016

The focus on the unresolved relegation scrap in the Premier League and the titanic three-way promotion battle at the top of the Championship has perhaps been more intense [...]

Midweek Muse: What will next season’s TV mega deal mean for the Premier League?

April 20, 2016

The World Snooker Championship got underway on Saturday, and the TV boom the cue sport enjoyed in the 1980s got Tom Simmonds thinking about the new megabucks TV deal that the [...]

Midweek Muse: How Cambridge United just missed out on the first season of the Premier League

April 13, 2016

Inspired by telling Tranmere’s tale in John King’s “deadly submarine” last week, Tom Simmonds looks back at another team from the same era who punched above their [...]

Midweek Muse: John King’s Tranmere Rovers fell just short of greatness, but the achievements of this charismatic manager can’t be underestimated

April 6, 2016

The death of Tranmere Rovers’ legendary manager John King last week brought many touching tributes, both from followers of the Birkenhead club and football fans in general, [...]