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Gregor Robertson: A flip side to raising the bar
You wonder what the fella interviewing Bracknell Town’s manager, Matt Saunders, would have said if you told him that footage of the answer to that anodyne...
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/ 3 months agoGregor Robertson: There’s nothing wrong in going long!
Have you noticed the way most games start these days? One team takes kick-off, obviously. But it’s what happens next that feels a little regressive.
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/ 5 months agoGregor Robertson: Now I miss the agony of old!
“Do you miss it?” Nine years have passed since my last game, for the Grimsby Town team that won the 2016 National League play-off final.
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/ 7 months agoGregor Robertson: Was it worth the fanfare?
“National League Cup Champions, you’ll never sing that,” the Leeds United fans chorused with a hint of satire, after seeing their under-21s’ beat Sutton United in the National League Cup final on Tuesday night.
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/ 8 months agoGregor Robertson: We are playing by different laws!
So I was perusing the laws of the game the other night. As you do. The Ifab’s website. I know… get a life, mate. But look, you bloomin’ well have to these days if it’s...
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/ 10 months agoGregor Robertson: National League has got little to bargain with in extra promotion spot case
The issue for the National League is not so different to the one faced by the EFL. Its leaders have spent the last few years pleading with the Premier League for a bigger slice of...
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/ 11 months agoGregor Robertson: A farewell to the fairytale
Non-League representation in the FA Cup is over for another year, and it’s hard to shake the feeling that there will be fewer of the stories that make the competition special now that replays are...
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/ 1 year agoCLUBS HAVE IT TOUGHER THAN EVER!
Gregor ROBERTSON FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST Last month, I paid a visit to Isthmian League club Lancing, who had caused a bit of a stir during a recent international break. Perhaps you heard the story: the...
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/ 1 year agoGregor Robertson: FA Cup about memories, not money
Who could have predicted that the much-discussed first-ever year without FA Cup replays would unfold like this?
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/ 1 year agoCOACHES NEED OPEN PATHWAYS
Gregor ROBERTSON FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST TOOLS OF THE TRADE: England appointing Thomas Tuchel, inset, as new manager has sparked debate about English coaches PICTURE: Alamy What is the point of international football? It’s a fairly...
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/ 1 year agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: Fans must be the 12th man
When Dean Brennan called out his own fans a couple of weeks ago, the Barnet head coach articulated thoughts that have gone through the mind of every manager or player who’s ever had a career...
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/ 1 year agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: “It’s true, anything is possible”
It’s hard to decide which aspect of Andy Mangan’s proposed move from the coaching staff of Stockport County to Real Madrid was more astonishing.
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/ 1 year agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: When will our noise be heard?
Almost two years have passed since it emerged that the EFL were ready to offer three promotion places to the National League as part of the “New Deal for Football” – the proposed financial reset...
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/ 1 year agoGregor Robertson: Outcasts have renewed hope
Every lower league footballer, at some point in their career, will experience the fear and uncertainty of being out of contract. It comes with the territory.
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/ 1 year agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: Let’s see if you can do better!
Steve Baines was something of a pioneer: The first former professional footballer of note to become a referee.
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/ 2 years agoKEVIN MAKES IT ALL LOOK EASY
Gregor ROBERTSON FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST WORKING MIRACLES: Southend United manager Kevin Maher PICTURE: Alamy Afew weeks ago, a colleague interviewed the Reading manager, Rubén Sellés. “Forget England,” the headline read, “Meet the manager with football’s...
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/ 2 years agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: Top shouldn’t forget roots
Self-regulation has failed. The time for an independent regulator is here. Two stories in football from the past week or so underlined why.
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Gregor Robertson
/ 2 years agoWolves are at the door
Gregor ROBERTSON FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST Torquay United needs its own Ryan Reynolds to save club”, so read a headline on the Devon Live website last week following news that Gulls owner, Clarke Osborne, would no...
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/ 2 years agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: Stu is a perfect fit for Notts!
If you are reading these pages, you will no doubt know, as well as me, the reason why Notts County came calling for Wealdstone boss Stuart Maynard.
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Gregor Robertson
/ 2 years agoA VAR FREE ZONE IS SO PURE
ELATION: The joy of the goal celebration remains untainted in Non-League PICTURE: Ian Morsman APPARENTLY the Luddites were misunderstood. You know, that band of English workers who went around smashing up the machines threatening their...
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Gregor Robertson
/ 2 years agoBees are having the last laugh
Gregor ROBERTSON FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST On one of my visits to The Hive not so long ago one punter cracked a joke. ‘Soon’, he quipped, ‘a bit like London rats, you’ll never be more than...
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/ 2 years agoGREGOR ROBERTSON: It’s the end of the line, Ron!
The story of Southend United’s demise bears many familiar hallmarks. Unpaid bills. Late wages. Transfer embargoes. Winding-up petitions. Protesting fans. A spiral through the leagues.
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/ 7 years agoGregor Robertson column: Memories of FA Cup success never fade
In 15 years as a professional, a last-16 tie against Tottenham Hotspur, when I was a fresh-faced youngster at Nottingham Forest, was about as good as it got.
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/ 7 years agoGregor Robertson column: Why Torquay United fans are sceptical of £40m stadium plans…
In plain sight?
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/ 7 years agoGregor Robertson column: No hiding in pre-season!
Ask any player what the worst part of the job is and invariably the answer will be pre-season.
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