Chris Dunlavy
Chris Dunlavy: Carlisle United boss Mark Hughes had a reality check
Mark Hughes cut a remarkably philosophical figure in the aftermath of Carlisle United’s humiliating 5-0 defeat to York City on Tuesday night.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Mark Cooper lost his credit in bank
Mark Cooper never possessed the wry avuncularity of a Neil Warnock, the taxi driver patter of a Harry Redknapp or the infectious passion of someone like Dean Brennan.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Ruthless Matt Uggla will one day regret Adam Hinshelwood decision
For a while there, it looked as if Matt Uggla had learned his lesson. In just 136 words, that illusion was shattered.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Andy Carroll’s found an ideal home
It almost feels as if the Non-League game is his natural habitat and if Dagenham and Redbridge get even the slightest vestige of the old Andy Carroll, it could be a match made in heaven.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Be careful what Roo wish for
Macclesfield have a Rooney in the dugout, but was it the one they truly desired?
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Alex Scott grew away from the glare
As kids, aspiring footballers are often told that success depends on sacrifice, graft and living like a monk while your mates enjoy their teenage excesses. But sometimes the opposite is true.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 7 months agoChris Dunlavy: Stepping up is a tall order!
Nick Woltemade – the two-metre Messi – is the talk of Europe after starring for Germany at the Under-21 European Championships.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Mark Hughes rounds up the troops
Carlisle United have got a lot wrong in recent years, and question marks remain over Mark Hughes’ capacity to manage in the National League - but credit where it’s due.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Age is no longer just a number
Ollie Pearce couldn’t have done much more to earn a shot at the EFL, but even a 30-goal season won’t do the trick these days. Not if you’re 29, anyway.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Simon Grayson’s got his work cut out!
Hartlepool United fans can be forgiven for affording Simon Grayson the sort of welcome reserved for cold-callers and travelling salesmen.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Is this play-off system fair? Stats certainly stack it up!
How fair are the National League play-offs? Not very according to York City, who last week published an open letter criticising the current system and calling for “immediate reform”.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoWRITE TRURO OFF AT YOUR PERIL
Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL TRURO City will begin their first ever season in the National League as one of the hot favourites for relegation. After all, they started last season as one...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Perilous Heed heading south
Gateshead lost a manager this week, but so much else has been squandered since the end of a deeply dispiriting season.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: EFL clubs scared of cash cost
Julie-Anne Uggla, the co-owner of York City, should probably have dug into the history books before she published an open letter railing against the iniquity of the play-offs.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 8 months agoChris Dunlavy: Play-off pause shifted power
Play-offs are inherently unfair, but the fate of York City and Forest Green Rovers feels particularly cruel.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 9 months agoFINALLY YORK GOT IT RIGHT!
Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL PLENTY TO SMILE ABOUT: Ollie Pearce, right, and York City have been fantastic all season PICTURE: Tom Poole WHEN Dean Brennan sat down last summer to plot Barnet’s...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 9 months agoSHRIMPS’ DEMISE WAS PREDICTED
Chris DUNLAVY A FEW weeks ago, I was driving home up the A1 after watching Doncaster Rovers beat Bradford City to seal promotion to League One. Up ahead, the traffic slowed, crawled and eventually stopped....
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 year agoChris Dunlavy: Matt Uggla has learnt from mistakes
Has anyone heard from Matt Uggla recently? No twitter spats? No accusations of incompetence? Funny that.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 year agoChris Dunlavy: The cat is out of the bag, it seems!
NOT so long ago, facing a club from Step 3 was a complete mystery to an EFL or Premier League side. Such was the scarcity of available data or video, they may as well have...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Game has to mind the gap
“If anyone knows the effects of prune juice, it’s very simple,” explained the Apprentice star and former owner of Tottenham. “It goes in one end and comes straight out the other, and that’s exactly what’s...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoA PROPER PLAN CONQUERS ALL
Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL ASK a football manager to assess the competition and – as sure as night follows day – talk will turn to budgets. Those blessed with deep pockets insist...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoCOSU HAVE SHOWN UNITED INTENT
Chris DUNLAVY THERE’S a general rule of thumb when it comes to the purchase of football clubs: the longer things drag on, and the more noise you hear, the less likely a takeover becomes. Little...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Actions now speak louder
Whatever the case is with his appointment at Macclesfield, this is unchartered territory for Robbie Savage and the rules by which he has lived his professional life no longer apply.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoCHRIS DUNLAVY: Fry’s got an eye for a bargain
Barry Fry loves to tell the story of how Peterborough United plucked Dwight Gayle from Dagenham & Redbridge.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 years agoRESPECT HAS TO BE EARNED
Chris DUNLAVY IT’S tournament time and England are involved so, inevitably, we’re all hearing some old favourites. Sweet Caroline. Three Lions. World in Motion. Oh, and let’s not forget that immortal classic, Ten German Bombers....
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