Jewell survives again to make bids for Swindon duo

Slowly attracting the name of “the cat” in football managerial circles, not because he’s quick and agile (far from it in fact), but because Ipswich manager Paul Jewell is seemingly the man of many lives as he survives in the hot-seat at Portman Road.

Brighton search low for new striker

“It is all so much better at the top”, they say in order to sell the dream, but try telling that to Dorchester Town’s Ben Dickenson who has continued his meteoric rise, faster than that of house-gas prices, by being on the edge of a move to Brighton and Hove Albion.

Just why do Chelsea feel a reluctance to use reserves?

On the same day that Chelsea had reportedly finally managed to wrap up a £7 million deal for defender Gary Cahill, it had emerged that Andre Villas Boas was beginning to run out of patience for the lack of fertility from his academy and was planning to split the staff and players involved in the reserves from the first team.

Haynes in Demand

Life is good when you are a footballer, even when your club don’t want you, there always seems to be a few others interested in giving you a home. That is the case with Danny Haynes who is subject of a bidding war between Millwall and Charlton Athletic after Barnsley manager Keith Hill said he no longer needed the young striker.