Tor’s Travels – Newcastle

5.15am is not a civilised time to be awake by anyone’s standards, least of all on a Sunday morning slap bang in the middle of a bank holiday weekend, so pity the few of us who were stood outside Craven Cottage at that time waiting for the coach to whisk us up to...

Tor’s Travels – Wolves

There are some good reasons to drive to away matches; listening to commentary on an earlier kick-off, and being able to tune in to the dulcet tones of Johnny Doom on Kerrang Radio as you speed down the M6 being just two of them. When my radio decided it wasn’t...

The old boys

I’m bored of the ongoing, and seemingly annual, goalkeeper saga at Motspur Park. If it’s not tales of Schwarzer possibly departing for north London it’s the “Will he, won’t he” confusion surrounding David Stockdale going out on loan. So instead I’m going to...

2011/12 Fixtures released

A home draw first then. That’s not bad. It’s not a thrilling draw though, is it? No offence to Aston Villa but it’s hardly a glamour tie. Nope, that’s not until October 1st when we host those upstarts from the other side of the borough. All in all, I’m pretty...

Next up: Birmingham (away)

What a difference a game makes. Before last week there was a storm up into the top half of the table, the possibility of sneaking into Europe via the Fair Play spot, some great performances from all of the players and a huge burst of optimism surrounding the end of...