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Graham Westley: Going up? Do not make big changes
With Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Southampton firmly rooted to the bottom of the Premier League, the question once again arises around what it takes to...
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Columnists
/ 11 months agoGraham Westley: If you work hard, you’ll get rewards
My youngest lad Joe enjoyed a dream Football League debut for Swindon Town last weekend as he began his loan spell away from Burnley.
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Columnists
/ 11 months agoGraham Westley: Walsall can drive home big advantage
With 21 games of the League Two season remaining, Walsall were 15 points clear of fourth place and seemingly cruising towards automatic promotion.
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Columnists
/ 11 months agoGraham Westley: Transfer window system is just not for me…
Transfer windows are a football anomaly that I really don’t like - two key elements in sport ought to be skill and equitability.
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Championship
/ 1 year agoHumble Frank Lampard can shine in Coventry City glare
ARECORD of 13 wins (23%) and 32 defeats (57%) in his last 56 games in a dugout is being held up as a reason for Coventry City not to have employed Frank Lampard, evidence that...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 year agoLET’S BE POSITIVE ABOUT OUR CHANGING GAME
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER AS I stood on the side of the pitch watching my lad Joe bang in four well-taken goals for Burnley against Birmingham in an U21s game in...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 year agoSTAYING UP WOULD RANK HIGH FOR WAYNE
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER GOING into the weekend, Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth Argyle were just two points outside the bottom three off the back of two heavy away defeats at Bristol City...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 year agoExceptional Mark will bounce back
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER AFTER 154 wins in 387 games at a 39%+ win rate, Mark Robins was dismissed by Coventry on Thursday in the eighth year of his tenure. On...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 year agoQuickfire fix? Not in management
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER THERE is never a shortage of managerial change in the world of football. Less than ten league games into the new season, a number of EFL clubs...
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Graham Westley
/ 1 year agoGraham Westley: Window shuts but hard work begins
THE closing of a transfer window is a very difficult time at a football club. The comings and goings create all sorts of issues and it is very difficult to get everything right.
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoSteve richly deserves his nomination
Graham Westley - Ex-Stevenage, Preston, Peterborough and Newport manager You simply have to admire clubs who punch above their weight. There is no greater EFL example than my former side Stevenage. The entire club deserves...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoForgotten bosses need more help…
Graham Westley LMA CAN PLAY GREATER ROLE My name was one of eight on a list of candidates to be elected by League Managers Association members as the new chairperson when voting opened last month....
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoNow you need to embrace pressure situation
The run-in is a very different time in a season. The stakes seem to become much higher and the consequences of winning and losing become much clearer. Of course, games are still only worth three...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoYou need to tell the truth at times
Graham Westley The ex-Stevenage, Preston, Peterborough and Newport manager has sympathy for the axed Deeney There was a sense of inevitability on Thursday when Forest Green Rovers dismissed Troy Deeney. Deeney had said that he...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoSaddened by Royals’ decline…
Back in the early noughties, in the year of my Farnborough Town’s side Isthmian Premier title success, we played a home league game at Reading’s Madejski Stadium as part of a tie-up with the club...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoWHEN ALAN HAD US ALL IN STITCHES
I WAS recently invited to share some insight on a podcast called Undr The Cosh. It was a fun experience talking to the two Chris Browns and Jon Parkin about football management. Afterwards, I reflected...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoEFL miss big trick by not using VAR
... AND THESE IDEAS CAN IMPROVE IT OVER the years, I have strongly advocated the introduction of a form of VAR for EFL clubs. As the furore over the subject rages on in the Premier...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoYOU HAVE TO DIG SO DEEP TO LAND AN EFL SHOT
BID: Jonathan Greening IN LAST week’s FA Cup first round, there was a much publicised story emanating out of Scarborough Athletic. Jonathan Greening, their manager, was busy explaining that he’d made 60 applications to clubs...
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoSmart Notts rising to new challenges
Graham Westley EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER Back in July, Notts County’s Adam Chicksen said: “You don’t just step up a league and keep doing the same things. You’d be naive to think that....
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Graham Westley
/ 2 years agoLeader Aden has got that extra bit of class
Graham Westley At every rung of the football ladder, there are players who just look ‘too good for the level’. Aden Flint contributed to Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion into the Championship last season. So it is...
Cardiff City
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