EFB Sport Zeitung Double For Wolves
Well its a double for the Molineux men, firstly securing the league cup title vs Arsenal in which they easily won 3-0. After securing the league cup manager Riddell said "Its a fantastic day for the club, another trophy in the canbinet, Kroupi played a blinder today, two fanastic goals scored today by the african".
With securing european football for next season, Wolves went on and ripped division 1 to shreds and easily cruised to be crowned Champions for the 2nd time in Riddell's spell. Riddell was delighted at the success of his young team "The team is growing up you could say, they have gained a lot of experience and after last seasons dissapointments they sure have made up for it this season. Chairmen Jack Hayward said "Its good to be back into the top flight so soon, i had a lot of confidence that Riddell could do it, we wouldnt have kept him in a job otherwise".
Wolves almost made it a treble when they managed to get to the FA Cup Final, however on the day they were out classed by Rushden who demolished Wolves, end result was 5-1. Riddell comments after the match "Im very disspointed that we didnt win today, but all credit to Rushden, they out classed us not only today but they did the same in the league, certainly a team to watch out for next season".
Rushden Done It With Added Cup Delight
After a fantastic season manager Dave Johnston took Rushden and Diamonds into the top flight after securing runners up place in Division 1. It will be the first time in Rushdens history that they will be playing top flight football. Johnston was overjoyed "Its brilliant, such a good day not just for myself but also the club, the players, the chairmen, they all been fantastic throughout my spell here at Rushden". This comment was followed my chairmen Griggs "This is the best day ever in the clubs history, the manager is fantastic, he has exceeded expectations, I sure hope he stays with us for a long time".
Rushden then went on to demolish 1st Division champions Wolves for the 3rd time this season in a very much one sided game which Rushden won 5-1. After the game fans were praising the work Johnston has done so far with comments like "he is fantastic, there isnt a better manager out there we could have" another fan said "he's suprised us all, he gets us top flight footie and won the FA Cup for us, whats next? this guy is brilliant, i cant wait for the next suprise".
So Close Yet So Far
After a mid season collapse, manager Andy Hepburn managed to turn it around once more and secured a play off by finishing 3rd with his Cardiff side. The play off semi final saw two thrilling legs which ended in penaties vs Portsmouth, with missing 2 penalties it was the end for Cardiff's dramatic late charge for premiership football. Hepburn said "its always dissapointing when you lose, penalties are like a lottery and we just wernt lucky enough, im sure the players will bounce back and this time try for automatic promotion". Although slightly dissapointed chairman Hamamm said "There are a lot of good teams in this league and Hepburn did well to get us where he did this season, if everything goes well we could be in the premiership sooner rather than later"
Sky Blues In No Heaven
Well after a very bad start to the season, things started to pick up again for Coventry, at one point they were within reach of the play offs but unfortunatly manager Brown couldnt make them which then resulted with him getting the sack. Chairmen Richardson said "We decided to terminate Browns contract, our aim was to at least get a play off place and get back into the premier league, in his time with us, he wasnt able to do that".
However in a dramatic U-turn Coventry City re-appointed manager Mark Brown, he told us "I had a good chat with the board, they know the team is a lot better now than what it was when i first took over and they have to appreciate that
, im very sure I can get this club promoted".
West No Trophies Albion
Well its been quite a disspointing season for WBA considering the way they had been performing for the last 2 seasons, at one point leading the premiership too. WBA went out early in the cups for their standard which included a 4-0 thrashing by Wolves in the league cup which they had won for the past 2 seasons. All was not bad though, Koprivnik said "Its wasnt a bad season at all, we secured european football, that was certainly one of our aims, its unfortunate that we went out the cups when we did as we didnt expect too go out so early". Chairmen Thompson added "We qualified for the Uefa cup which is fantastic, especially for a club the size of WBA, Koprivnik has done a wonderful job so far at the club".
Boring City??
Well it was a quiet season for Man City in their first season back in the top flight, ending in 12th place manager Vermeer was quite please "We secured premiership status, that is an achievement in itself considering the competition there is, from here we build and get even stronger". Fans were very pleased with their quiet season when comments in a local newspaper were full of hope and future success one fan said "Vermeer says he has a lot of big plans and with the players coming in for the new season they certainly are even bigger than what we expected".
Late Dash See's Reading Stay Up
It never looked too good for Reading, especially after a poor start the worst was feared, relegation back to Division 2 looked certain too as Reading were 23rd in division 2 with only a handful of games left. Then the magic started down at the Madejski stadium. Reading went and won game after game and crawled out of the relegation zone, the impossible was done and Reading finished 17th. Manger Farwell said "We suddenly seemed to have hit some kind of peak right near the end of the season, they playeres were fantastic, we managed to creep out of the relegation zone and into a kind of safety zone, we certainly have done well this season, we were never good enough to match the top teams". Chairmen Madejski said "That was an awesome end to the season, Farwell suprised us all and got us out of the relegation zone, hopefully we can start the new season like we ended this one".
Late Charge See's Suprise Champions
With 3 games to go the unthinkable happen, Boston managed to creep upto the runner away league leaders Stoke and thrash them on their own turf and take top spot away for the first time this season. After a fantastic spell of form which started during mid season Boston went on and crowned themselves Champions of Division 2. Manager Gold was more than delighted with the success, he said "Well after the start we made i didnt think it would have been possible to win the league at all, the players got it together and we finished the season of in style with taking away the title from Stoke who had been up there all season"
Boston also managed to win the Vans Trophy cup which suprised even the Boston fans themselves let alone the manager. They beat Orient in the final after another dramatic come back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. Gold said "I certainly didnt expect them to get this far let alone win it, we had to field the reserves for the whole competition, the fixtures are so poorly made and congested that I had no other option but to play reserves" Chairmen Pat Malkinson said "Gold has exceeded expectations yet again, we never expected to be crowned Division 2 champions let alone win the Vans Trophy. He has done a fantastic job yet again in turning the club around, I still cannot believe how far he has got us in so little time".
After such a dramatic season end which saw them with two trophies, Boston Utd fans were said to have been singing managers Gold name in the streets, with also lots of radio phone ins praising the work he has done so far at the club.
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