The savage world of management

Since English football’s ‘rebirth’ in 1992, few Premier League alumni have tumbled quite as far down the pyramid as Bradford City. They were a top-flight outfit as recently as 2001, but swiftly suffer

His own stag do in Nashville couldn’t stop Harry Hugo watching a football match – even if it was a Surrey Senior Cup clash between Farnham Town and Tooting & Mitcham. Hugo, Farnham’s owner and chairma

J ack Wilshere is such a smiling character that it’s occasionally easy to forget how much of a competitor he is. Short in stature but not willpower, Wilshere was training alongside Thierry Henry at 14

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

Coventry City have been here before. In 1967, Jimmy Hill’s Sky Blues won the Second Division and were promoted to the top flight for the first time in their history. Lifelong innovator Hill took the u

At 26, most football fans are worrying about which pub to meet their mates at on a matchday. Matt Porter isn’t most football fans. By that age, he was already running his boyhood EFL club, Leyton Orie