Author: Lloyd
Mental Health Awareness Week: On Being a Football Fan
Football is one of the few things in life that has the power to consistently affect my state of mind for better or worse, so when I started to think about how I might go about exploring its relationship with mental health to kick off a mini-series of posts on this website to mark Mental Health Awareness Week I couldn’t resist looking inwards.
Although such a focus might appear …
Neil Warnock Week: The Argyle Years
Despite managing the Pilgrims for less than 100 games back in the nineties, Neil Warnock remains a firm favourite amongst Plymouth Argyle supporters today — so much so that his name continues to surface every time the team goes on a bad run of form. ‘Warnock would sort this mess out’, so goes the mantra.
At points, a return wouldn’t have been out of the question — not least …
Hot Seat Narratives: Looking Beyond the Manager
The stats relating to the duration of managerial spells are, as you might expect, damning. This season, the average length of employment across the Premier and Football League’s 92 clubs is 1.64 seasons. In the Championship the mean is even worse, standing at 0.82 seasons. Between the Premier League and League Two, 47 of the 92 managers currently in position are yet to complete a full season with their …

