PLAN B? MOVING SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY

Chris DUNLAVY GATESHEAD chairman Neil Pinkerton says a move away from the International Athletics Stadium is “very much Plan B”. Really?...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Things can get Ugg-ly

Is it cowardly for the owner of a football club to shy from the limelight? Or simply a sensible precaution?

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Conn can do the job – just like Lee

Chris Conn-Clarke doesn’t look like an athlete, but nor did Lee Tomlin. It didn’t stop him giving Vincent Kompany the fright...

GO BACK TO BEING DULL!

Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL ROVER ‘N’ OUT: Forest Green Rovers are back in the National League after six...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Get real – 3G is the future

Surely the time has come, then, for the EFL to lift an archaic ban on artificial surfaces that acts as a...

NEIL’S FOUND IDEAL ROLE AT GULLS

Chris DUNLAVY TEMPTING as it is to see Neil Warnock as Torquay’s manager in waiting, Paul Wotton has no need to...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Look how far we have come

Severa; years ago, whilst living in Oxford, I invited a couple of friends to watch the mighty U’s in action. Chris...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Grigg’s his own man in the box

Will Grigg spoke last week of being inspired to join Chesterfield after watching Welcome to Wrexham. Yet Paul Mullin, one of...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: No salutes for cup idea

Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL PLANS to overhaul the FA Cup have sparked predictable – and justifiable – outrage...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Lessons to be learned

What to make of Matt Uggla, the 29-year-old son of a billionaire who has promised to take York City back to...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: We go our own way!

STEVE Morison, the new and thoroughly unexpected manager of Hornchurch, bristled when I asked how he’d cope with coaching players of...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: It’s time for a cap on owners

When the EFL announced strict new rules aimed at preventing clubs falling into the wrong hands, it begged an obvious question. ...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: New Urchins boss Morison bucks the trend

Being snobby is an accusation that could never be levelled at Steve Morison, who accepted an offer to manage Isthmian Premier...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: A team that time forgot

Relegation from League Two is usually the result of long-term neglect or financial mismanagement, and frequently both.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Learn respect, like Cloughie!

Just imagine what Brian Clough would have made of Roma and Jose Mourinho, whose shameful antics in Wednesday’s Europa League final...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Money is the 3-up charter

Paul Cook was right when he called Notts County’s failure to win automatic promotion a ‘sporting disgrace’.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Play-offs at their finest!

Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Real Madrid at the Bernabeu was intriguing, but never exciting. First legs rarely are. Like the...

CHRIS DUNLAVY: The big money is filtering down!

David Sharpe always dreamed of running a professional football club. Until, that is, he discovered how much it cost.

Chris Dunlavy: How do you pick a boss?

When Rob Edwards walked out on Forest Green Rovers mere days after clinching promotion to League One, there was no panic...

COOKING ON OWN TERMS

Chris DUNLAVY BUT HE MUST LEAD SPIREITES WITH A SMILE A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL STRUGGLED: Paul Cook has often cut...

It’s our duty to give Chris Barker the send-off he deserves

Like anybody in that situation, I’ve been tormented by the thought of ‘Should I have seen something? Should I have done...

Chris Dunlavy: Beware, it’s a slipper slope

Chris DUNLAVY A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL MAKING A STAND: Oldham Athletic fans invade the pitch at Boundary Park in protest...

Chris Dunlavy: This is Phil Parkinson’s big chance

When Parky was appointed by Sunderland in October 2019, he was widely seen as the steadiest pair of hands in League...

Chris Dunlavy: Penalties…it’s art, not luck!

Such equanimity will offer cold comfort to Gary Johnson and his Torquay United players following last weekend’s painful shoot-out defeat to...

Chris Dunlavy: At last, we’ve found a voice

Both parties will be cheered and jeered, pilloried on social media and discussed in comment pieces. They will be tagged as...