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Gregor Robertson

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6 months

Winners / losers…

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5 years

Gareth Southgate could pick the midfield pivot for one of the most tactically sophisticated, dynamic teams in the country, with 174 games under his belt aged 24. Or, erm, Declan Rice. Should it matter that Kalvin Phillips plays in the Championship?

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Two years ago Norwich City made a plan - and stuck to it. With intelligent leadership, savvy recruitment and trust in youth, this weekend they stand on the brink of the Premier League

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1 year

So I spent some time in Ecuador last month, visiting some of the people and places that shaped Moisés Caicedo...

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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It’s been an incredible rise, from the poverty-stricken streets of Santo Domingo, via Independiente del Valle, a remarkable little club perched high in the Andes, to the £100m-rated, 21-year-old Premier League midfielder so highly sought-after today...

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

It ended well. Loved every minute of my time at #GTFC . Special club. Thanks for the kind messages! #UTM !

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@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

I'm hanging the boots up... The past 15 years have been an absolute blast. Looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter!

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7 years

This time last year...

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5 years

Journeyman column from Bramall Lane. Five years ago Chris Wilder's Northampton team (who I played for) had just beaten Dagenham & Redbridge to climb out of the League Two relegation zone. Now the Premier League awaits him... Incredible.

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@GregorRoberts0n

3 years

Gutted for the Grimsby support tonight. Never known a club be as important to its town. Hope to see you back in the Football League very soon.

Grimsby Town F.C.

@officialgtfc

3 years

FT - 🔴⚪️ 3 - 2 🔵 Heartbreak after a battling performance. Town’s five year spell in the Football League will come to an end. #GTFC

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4 years

When Gary Johnson arrived at Plainmoor 2 years ago, Torquay United were 14th in the sixth tier - their lowest ebb. Now they're 9 points clear at the top of the NL, on course for an EFL return, and Johnson has promotion No 7 in his sights. A true great.

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7 years

Spoke to Tommy Lee, the former Chesterfield goalkeeper, who retired through injury last month, about years of masking pain, his relief now it's over, and a career in the lower leagues...

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5 years

Catastrophic mismanagement, unsustainable levels of debt, and a regulatory framework that looks increasingly unfit for purpose. Seven days before the new season gets underway, the EFL is not a happy place. What will it take to do something about it?

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7 years

“Ability is lovely, but ability alone won’t get you a career.” A look at the ferocious work ethic inside the fruitful Forest academy...

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@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

Great to see a few Mariners today... fans still as nuts as ever 😄 And @Dizza20 is still the main man: that sandwedge was sublime 👌🏻

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4 years

Politics, scandal, a takeover saga, ultimatums, claims and counterclaims, and a change of manager — it was quite the end to 2020 for Grimsby Town. But are better days ahead? (Hope so.)

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10 months

Of the 12 new managers/head coaches appointed by EFL clubs in the past 6 weeks, half never played any notable professional football. The same can now be said of about a fifth of the present 92 League managers. Piece here on the rise of the career coach.

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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9 years

Piece I wrote about a different side to the January transfer window... in tomorrow's @IndyFootball @Independent

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5 years

Interview with Mick Harford, @LutonTown ’s reluctant hero, on seeking (personal) redemption a decade after taking the club he loves into non-League

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@GregorRoberts0n

3 months

By the way, Ollie Watkins’ mum (who juggled a singing career with bringing up her kids) is awesome too…

Ollie Watkins’s mum: I used to drive him to training – then rush back to get on stage

Luther Vandross’s Never Too Much is not your average footballer’s initiation song, but soon after Ollie Watkins had signed for Aston Villa in September, the former Brentford forward stood up on his

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

Unbelievable scenes today. See you all at Wembley!! Come on!!! #GTFC #UTM

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@GregorRoberts0n

3 years

Never been a player, never really know? The longer I’ve spent on this side of the fence, the more I’ve come to question the merits of that view. Column:

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3 years

Really enjoyed speaking to @jstockwood about his vision for Grimsby Town, and what a thriving football club can do for its community. Great to see Blundell Park bouncing again. Journeyman column.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

7 years

Gonna have to find some boots and some WD40, but looking forward to this. Deserved recognition for a fine player, captain and man.

Grimsby Town F.C.

@officialgtfc

7 years

CONFIRMED - Class of 15/16 left back, @GregorRoberts0n will be part of @Dizza20 All Star Squad. #GTFC #UTM

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8 years

Could not be happier for everyone involved with @officialgtfc !! BACK IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE!! YOU BEAUTY 💪🏻💪🏻

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@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

Lincoln City's remarkable Cowley-inspired journey continues. A club transformed. Journeyman column from Sincil Bank.

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@GregorRoberts0n

9 years

Delighted to be a Mariner for another year! Do my very best to help us go one better next season! #WeGoAgain #GTFC

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@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

It's been a miserable season for Sheffield Utd but if there's a glimmer of light it's their academy, which is thriving. Six international call-ups last month and some really innovative work happening at Shirecliffe. Spent a fascinating day there last week:

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

Piece in today's @TimesSport about retiring, and the way a football career usually comes to an end... Free link:

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@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

A penalty save with his 1st touch in pro football for Forest, victim of a terrible injustice by a coffee cup, 12 years battling the odds with Morecambe, a 94th minute headed equaliser, and more... Here's to Barry Roche: a fine man and a great career.

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4 years

After the miracle, the quiet revolution. Two players have survived a transformation that began 12 months ago. Michael Appleton's team, and Lincoln's football, is now bristling with youth and energy. Championship-bound? Journeyman col from Sincil Bank.

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@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Time to STOP SACKING MANAGERS

Nottinghamshire Live Sport

@nottslivesport

6 years

There is no sign Aitor Karanka has lost the Nottingham Forest dressing room: @GregorRoberts0n column #nffc

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4 years

Should never underestimate the capacity for Jansson to drop a bollock

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6 years

“No ambition, no investment, sold out.” What the hell has happened to Swansea City?

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5 years

Manager, ambassador, investor: the intriguing union of Ian Holloway and Grimsby Town. Journeyman column from Blundell Park.

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@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Somehow ended up speaking to Ollie Watkins’ mum (among others for this piece) earlier today. She is awesome. And very proud.

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@GregorRoberts0n

7 years

Good to be back at Blundell!

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5 years

Even in the chaotic world of Bolton Wanderers, the last seven days were something else. Journeyman column, on a club on the brink.

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@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Hats off to @LutonTown : a club getting it right -- on and off the pitch. Journeyman column from Kenilworth Road

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@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

The kit-man, the chef, the office staff, the media officers, the team bus driver, the steward at the players’ entrance… To suggest that footballers are happy picking up their money as non-playing staff are furloughed is not just misguided but offensive

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

You Beauty #gtfc #utm 💪🏻 @ Wembley Stadium Playoff Final

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Interview with the excellent Matty Cash. Some season he’s having. We discussed: ▪️His release by Wycombe at 16 ▪️Working in a toy shop ▪️Forest’s fruitful academy ▪️Converting from MF to RB 18 months ago ▪️Villa’s belief/ambition ▪️Playing for Poland?

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Chesterfield have been on their longest unbeaten run in 12 years, and their longest winless run in club history. At the same time. Journeyman column from the Proact, scene of a tragicomedy that never ends.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Interview with @Coppinger26 , @drfc_official 's 38-year-old maestro, who is defying his years and fast becoming an @EFL modern great.

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6 years

Spent some time with Blackpool's boycotting supporters, before and during the visit of Arsenal on Saturday. The moment kick-off arrives is the saddest moment of their week. Journeyman Column...

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

3 years

Five wins in a row, top of League 2, soaring sponsorship revenue, PL clubs seeking out advice, a progressive new head coach and a free scoring young team — Forest Green Rovers are winning friends and influencing people.

Forest Green Rovers sowing the seeds for next phase of growth

A new era at the Fully Charged New Lawn where Forest Green Rovers’ Sky Bet League Two campaign is off to an electrifying start. “Entertained?” the head coach Ro

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

The realisation that this season is over is dawning from the bottom up. But success, for teams like @BarrowAFC , should be rewarded.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

Spent some time in Bury, where there should have been a game of football, on Saturday. As it stands, five days left until the town's 134-year-old club is thrown out of the EFL.

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7 years

Interview with Tommy Lee, the former Chesterfield goalkeeper, who retired last month through injury, on years of masking pain, his relief now it's over, and the realities of a career in the lower leagues

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5 years

Interview with @bignorms , who is outside the football bubble for the first time in 32 years, on mental health, the power of those endearing Twitter videos, and why #walkingisbrilliant

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Millwall are surging towards the playoffs, and they're doing it their way. Journeyman column from a raucous Den on Saturday...

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

None of it would have happened without Alan Knill beside Wilder. Here's a little piece on the Blades' overlapping centre-backs, and the system Knill has honed on the training ground, now on its way to the Premier League...

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Gregor Robertson

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3 years

What Mark Robins has done, and continues to do, at Coventry City is nothing short of remarkable. He's been an anchor in the storm, and now blue skies are overhead. Journeyman column from a 24,000-strong CBS Arena.

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@GregorRoberts0n

7 years

Went to Bradford yesterday. Then Yeovil. Then back to Bradford. Then home. I'm tired. But I met some truly dedicated fans:

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

If Karanka and Smith don’t just walk in to the dressing room, shut the door behind them, and burst out laughing, they’re out of order... 😂😂😂

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

I’ll be writing a new weekly column for the Nottingham Post this season. First up, a little Forest nostalgia, and how an unfamiliar feeling of hope and excitement is simmering at the City Ground...

NottinghamForestLive

@NFFC_live

6 years

Introducing our new signing... @GregorRoberts0n has joined the Post team ahead of the new season, and here's his first column #nffc

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@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

Journeyman column from London Road, home of the country’s top scorers, where @theposhofficial ’s attacking trio have plundered a remarkable 25 of their 28 @SkyBetLeagueOne goals (Thought I’d jinxed them on Saturday... 😅)

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

FA Cup, Lancashire derby... feels like a reserve game

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@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

1,019 EFL players fall out of contract at the end of this month. Until there’s a start date for next season, new contracts are few and far between. This summer’s “reset” will have casualties. I spoke to some pros facing up to a future without football.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

10 years

Hats off to the @officialgtfc supporters this weekend gave us unbelievable backing. 2500 away is mental 👏👏 #GTFC

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Shit rolls downhill. Column on a shambolic week for the National League.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Gareth Ainsworth still has a pre-season prediction - 23rd in League One - pinned to his office wall. Despite it all, Wycombe’s season has been some story. They’re 3 games from the Championship, starting at Fleetwood tonight.

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8 years

Spoke to #GTFC 's @OmarBogle9 for this week's column, on his route to @EFL and ambitions for the future...

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Gregor Robertson

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4 years

Burn this. Immediately.

Telegraph Football

@TeleFootball

4 years

World exclusive: Man Utd and Liverpool driving 'Project Big Picture' - football’s biggest shake-up in a generation. Full story from @SamWallaceTel

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6 years

Gutted for Paul Hurst. Lots of reasons for his failure at Portman Road, and the upshot will most likely be fewer Championship chairmen giving chances to managers from the lower leagues

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

Pick up @thetimes today: I've shared a few memories of the man who incredibly, will lift the PL trophy on Saturday!

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

10 years

Very happy to sign for @officialgtfc ! Looking forward to the next few months and the push for promotion! #GTFC

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@GregorRoberts0n

7 years

Column from a visit to @shrewsweb : the surprise of the EFL season and last unbeaten team

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

Hello, I’m delighted to say I’ll be co-hosting The Game podcast from @TimesSport this season, every Monday and Thursday, alongside the wonderful @nataliesawyer . Lend us your ears on all your usual pod platforms. Here’s our season preview part 1!

Times Sport

@TimesSport

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The Game podcast is back. @nataliesawyer and her new co-host @GregorRoberts0n are joined by @allyrudd_times and @JamesGheerbrant to discuss the Premier League title race, which managers will feel the heat first, and the new rules to look out for

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4 years

If lower league clubs don't know when next season will start, they should prepare for the possibility that it won’t. Journeyman column.

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8 years

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3 years

Journeyman column from a happy, hopeful County Ground. What a difference a month makes.

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@GregorRoberts0n

5 years

If the demise of Bury and Bolton fails to shake football’s governing bodies from their stupor, nothing will, and the pyramid is fucked.

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@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

“Sir John” Askey, @thesilkmen manager with a 34 year connection, had one player on the books last summer, the smallest budget, saw wages go unpaid, but on Saturday lifted the @TheNationalLge trophy to send Macc back to the @EFL

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5 years

Visited @FCHTOnline on Saturday, a club with rich Football League pedigree (25 miles across the Pennines from Bury) that went to the wall 11 years ago. Now, there is prudence and perspective — even if Pete Wild has them dreaming again... Journeyman column

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Journeyman column from Adams Park, where new investment, changing room 'Generals', 'Wild Thing' in the dugout, and a shared love of rock 'n' roll have fired fan-owned Wycombe Wanderers up to 2nd in League One -- but it's decision time...

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

8 years

Visited Luton on Saturday: a club with a turbulent past that has ambitious plans for the future... For @TimesSport

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

9 years

Bachelor of Arts with Honours Professional Sports Writing and Broadcasting, First Class. I'm a happy man!!!

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8 years

Column from Lincoln where, 7 years on from Keith Alexander's death, his spirit inspires as keenly as ever...

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4 years

There's been a pretty remarkable resurgence at Valley Parade in the last 3 months, propelling Bradford from the edge of the drop zone to the fringe of the playoffs, all fuelled by England's youngest management duo and CEO. Journeyman column:

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3 years

Handing control of English football to the same 6 clubs when Project Big Picture was on the table was fine though, Rick Parry had us believe...

EFL Communications

@EFL_Comms

3 years

The EFL stands with the Premier League, The FA, PFA, LMA, the FSA and colleagues across European professional football in condemnation of proposals which attack the foundation of open and fair competition upon which our game is built. #EFL

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6 years

A piece on the boy Hudson-Odoi

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1 year

This is the story of Brighton’s journey, from the “war years” and homelessness to European football, and what the club’s rise means to a unique city. With insight from @FatboySlim , @albionroar , @BellaSankey , @atilatstokbroka and more. For @TimesSport .

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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5 years

Journeyman column from Accrington: farewell, and good luck, to Billy Kee.

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5 years

VAR is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever to have happened to football

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3 years

An hour before kick-off at Glanford Park on Saturday, Scunthorpe United’s calamitous season briefly descended into farce. Journeyman column on the demise of a once-spirited little club.

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5 years

Spoke to the coaches who played a part in Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s development. Hard to look beyond one transformational training session though...

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@GregorRoberts0n

6 years

Could Keith ‘Mysterious’ Curle (I wanna play 3-5-2) be the man who can finally fill Chris Wilder’s shoes at The Cobblers? Journeyman column from Sixfields

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Barnsley are on fire: 7 straight wins, into the playoffs, and their "vertical" football is ruffling a few feathers. Piece here on a club reaping the rewards of a unified vision (but the "P-words: play-offs, promotion and Premier League" are banned for now)

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3 years

Journeyman column from a club getting most things right: transparent, ambitious, dynamic Plymouth Argyle, the League One leaders. "We're on our way back", the manager Ryan Lowe says.

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3 years

Barnet FC: an omnishambles. Journeyman column.

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7 years

Jack's back.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

4 years

Farewell, David Luiz. You absolute maniac of a defender.

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Gregor Robertson

@GregorRoberts0n

7 years

Masking the pain: a piece on the use of painkillers in foootball

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5 years

Went to Plymouth to see how 9 ex-Bury players and staff are adapting to life 300 miles south. Journeyman column from Home Park

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6 years

Interview with Tim Howard, Peter B Freund and Craig Ugner, three of the seven-strong US Consortium that lifted @Dag_RedFC "out of the grave", and aim to return them to the Football League

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1 year

A long-awaited visit to The Mem, joining The 92 Club, and reflections on a life — as player and writer — in English football. @TimesSport

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8 years

Spoke to @barks5 about his 4.5 year injury battle, which ended in poetic fashion on Friday night... For @MailSport

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