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Focus Fives: Last 5 Home Wins Against Spurs
London Derbies have not been too kind to us in recent times in the Premier League. We’re reminded of this fact by the TV commentators every time we play them. In fact it’s a toss-up […]
Articles by John Clarke
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Focus Fives: Last Five Wins at Selhurst Park
With a very important trip to Crystal Palace at the weekend, I thought I’d take a look back at some rather nice victories we’ve had there. It would’ve been very difficult to get a Focus […]
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Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (2010s)
By way of introduction, this list is a personal choice with the players I’ve selected and not necessarily based on their ability alone. When reviewing my choices, I can hardly forgive myself for not including […]
Match Review
Match Reaction: Burnley 1-1 Fulham
Having removed the curse of Goodison Park on Sunday we headed North again to another venue that has been particularly unkind to us over the years… Unlike Everton, we had actually won at Burnley in […]
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The Team’s Gambit
A lucky few got to see us play Liverpool at the Cottage in December but for the majority it’s very nearly a year since we had the pleasure of going to our favourite place to […]
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Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (2000s)
Although we started the decade in the second tier, we made it back to the top division in 2001 after 33 long years, thereby achieving Mohammed Al Fayed’s 5 year goal 12 months ahead of […]
Hall of Heroes
Hall of Heroes: Roy Hodgson
When I was about 12 or 13, I was playing for my local boys’ team, Sutton Wanderers, when our manager said we had a special training session arranged with a proper coach. I was already […]
Focus Fives
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1990s)
The 1990’s was a decade of extremes for the club. We started it struggling in the depths of the third division and in 1994 fell through the trapdoor into the league’s basement. The nadir was […]
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Matchday Programme Revisited: Micky Adams Promotion
The featured programme this time is from a League Division 3 game with Northampton Town in April 1997 which is significant as it’s the first game after Micky Adams team clinched promotion with a point […]
Focus Fives
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1980s)
The 1980s was a strange period in the history of the club. We started it in the Third Division yet by 1983 had come within a whisker of returning to the top flight. Malcolm MacDonald […]