Tag: Opinion

Charlton Athletic: Opinion – Addicks evolving into proper Championship side
20 August 2026 Off

Charlton Athletic: Opinion – Addicks evolving into proper Championship side

By Total Football News

This Charlton Athletic fan was pacing around his hotel room in Le Touquet, on France’s northern coast, anxiously awaiting the outcome of our Championship opener against Derby County.

The relief was palpable when I re-joined my wife and our West Ham-supporting friends at the beach bar to celebrate a fine victory.

What pleased me most was Charlton’s courage and resolve in recovering from a goal down to claim all three

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Wolverhampton Wanderers opinion: Dazzling Dave on a different feel at Molineux
10 August 2026 Off

Wolverhampton Wanderers opinion: Dazzling Dave on a different feel at Molineux

By Total Football News

There is a different feel around Wolves going into the new Championship season.

Pre-season results should not be overplayed, but the early signs under new head coach Cesar Peixoto are encouraging. The team looks more organised than it did under Rob Edwards, with a clearer structure on and off the ball and a more defined way of playing.

There is plenty to improve, but the basics look stronger. Wolves seem

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Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – Hillsborough heroes embraced by new owners
10 June 2026 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – Hillsborough heroes embraced by new owners

By Total Football News

One of the things Leeds United do well is look after their own.

I’ve spoken to ex-Leeds players who speak highly of how often they’re invited back to Elland Road. They’re looked after. They’re put in a position to engage with fans, who love seeing their former heroes.

During Dejphon Chansiri’s ownership of Sheffield Wednesday, that didn’t happen at Hillsborough. It was a frequent talking point.

It wasn’t Chansiri’s biggest

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Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – Fans heard in new feel-good era at Owls
20 May 2026 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – Fans heard in new feel-good era at Owls

By Total Football News

Speaking to fans with respect, engaging them, revealing just enough of the plan to feel like they’ve got an idea of the direction of travel. It doesn’t happen anywhere near enough in football, with the previous regime at Hillsborough a classic example of this.

Fans were often treated to five-hour fans forums where they were shouted at, talked down to, described as mere customers and baited to ‘sell their

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Preston North End opinion: Lilywhites at a fork in the road
11 May 2026 Off

Preston North End opinion: Lilywhites at a fork in the road

By Total Football News

Preston North End finished 14th – a position that, on paper, suggests progress. In reality, it feels like a season that quietly slipped away.

An improvement of 10 points to 60 is not insignificant, but numbers alone do not tell the story. This was a campaign defined less by where North End finished and more by where they might have finished – and why they didn’t.

For half a season,

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Bristol City opinion: Seeking an end to Robins ‘beige’ purgatory
8 May 2026 Off

Bristol City opinion: Seeking an end to Robins ‘beige’ purgatory

By Total Football News

Here is a prediction for Bristol City’s final league position in 2026-27 season – we will probably finish 12th.

There comes a point when supporting your football club when you stop asking whether the team is good enough to go up or bad enough to go down.

Instead you start asking yourself, ‘what on earth is the point of this?’ You question the financial cost and also why bother if

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Millwall opinion: Lions heading into Championship play-offs with confidence
5 May 2026 Off

Millwall opinion: Lions heading into Championship play-offs with confidence

By Total Football News

So the play-offs it is then…

Last Saturday’s routine 2-0 win over an already-relegated Oxford United was as much as the Lions could do in their chase for the final automatic promotion spot.

But in truth, it was always Ipswich Town’s to lose – and the Tractor Boys were too good a side to allow the prize to slip from their grasp.

Two terrific goals from talisman Femi Azeez were

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Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – ‘Owls have a future again’
2 May 2026 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: Opinion – ‘Owls have a future again’

By Total Football News

The past 12 months have been absolute hell for a lot of people associated with Sheffield Wednesday.

The number of late-night calls with various people expressing different emotions – despair, frustration, anger, confusion, helplessness, anxiety, sadness. This has tested many people.

On multiple occasions over the past few months it’s even been questioned whether the club could survive another setback. That’s how serious things got.

In a world of PSG

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Millwall opinion: It’s a terrific time to be a Lions fan
1 May 2026 Off

Millwall opinion: It’s a terrific time to be a Lions fan

By Total Football News

Bermondsey will be abuzz with anticipation on Saturday, as the Lions enter the final day of the EFL season still with an outside chance of achieving automatic promotion to the Premier League.

After an incredible 2025-26 season, full of ups and downs, this is an amazing situation to be in.

Of course matters don’t lie entirely in our own hands, but all that Millwall can do is hopefully despatch Oxford

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Portsmouth opinion: Andrew Moon on John Mousinho’s future
30 April 2026 Off

Portsmouth opinion: Andrew Moon on John Mousinho’s future

By Total Football News

I’ve been to managerial press conferences that have been tense. Awkward topics get raised and things can get frosty or hostile quite quickly.

This was not the case with John Mousinho on Wednesday. For the best part of an hour he took questions on his future in a composed, relaxed and thoughtful way.

What did we learn? Mousinho was adamant that at this stage there has been no contact between

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