Tom Simmonds

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, [...]

Help the aged: The decline of Notts County, the Football League’s oldest club

March 30, 2016

Tom Simmonds looks back over the ongoing decline of Notts County, the world’s oldest football league club – and asks if there’s any hope of a brighter [...]

Midweek Muse: Burton leading the pack but it’s still a crowded battle for League One promotion

March 23, 2016

The League One promotion race is heating up. With five of the top six winning at the weekend, we are little wiser about which three clubs will claim the Championship places [...]

Midweek Muse: Crystal Palace dare to dream that they might succeed in the FA Cup where their gaffer Alan Pardew failed

March 16, 2016

The Eagles’ 2-0 FA Cup quarter-final win over Reading on Friday night secured their first semi-final appearance since 1995. Eagles fans have their eyes on a bigger [...]

Midweek Muse: Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool & Manchester City want to feature in an European Super Lea

March 9, 2016

Charlie Stillitano, chairman of a sports company called Relevent Sports, stirred up massive controversy last week, with both his words and deeds. Tom Simmonds has a radical [...]

A riot on the Eastern Front: Dynamo Dresden fans are shaking off city’s traumatic history to celebrate topping German Third Liga

March 2, 2016

A stag weekend comprised of a train odyssey from Prague to Berlin saw Tom Simmonds and friends join another slightly less famous ‘yellow wall’ on Saturday, as they found [...]

Midweek Muse: Did Manchester City’s lineup against Chelsea disrespect the FA Cup?

February 24, 2016

The status of the world’s oldest cup competition came into focus again when Manuel Pellegrini named five debutants in his starting XI at Chelsea on Sunday, in a move that [...]