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Mike Moore

As the official lower-league reporter here at Dexy's Den, I like to look further down the league standings to a place where football isn't all egos and multi-million pound endorsement deals. It's just more fun and more enjoyable!

Aldershot Town prove there can be life after death

March 27, 2012

  Tonight marks the 20th anniversary of the demise of Aldershot Football Club. Having been a member of the Football League for 62 years, the club was declared officially out of business on the 25th March 1992 and had to resign from the League. Yet 20 years on, Aldershot Town FC have risen from the [...]

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Hits and Misses: Football League highlights of the end of the transfer window

February 1, 2012

So one of the most exciting days of the season is over, and Jim White’s excitable gossip-hungry clone can go back into suspended animation until next year. Yet spending is down nearly 70% versus last year’s January deadline, where Torres and Carroll dominated the headlines. The Premiership clubs may have stayed away from the chequebook, [...]

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The Football League: Predicting the Unpredictable

January 22, 2012

Every week, my brother places an accumulator on various Football League results, only a few quid, but enough to make it fairly interesting. To this date, he has never won. What looks a cast-iron home win for a promotion chaser against a team middling along in mid-table obscurity may turn out to be a 1-4 [...]

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5-Minute Season Preview: League Two

August 7, 2011

Admittedly I was a bit slow to publish this…so with the added benefit of one performance, here’s the League Two preview! Who’s Looking Good? Crawley Town: Most bookies favourites, Crawley have the biggest budget in the league, momentum to die for, and probably the deadliest striker in the division in Matt Tubbs. His goals should [...]

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5-Minute Season Preview: League One

August 6, 2011

Last season, Brighton cantered to the title, with Southampton and Huddersfield fighting neck-and-neck for most of the campaign before the Saints eventually prevailed and were joined in the Championship by play-off winners Peterborough. But who will be up there or thereabouts this year? Who’s Looking Good? Huddersfield: After coming agonisingly cl [...]

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5-Minute New Season Preview: Championship

August 5, 2011

      Who’s Looking Good? Leicester: Having massively overhauled the squad during the summer, signing no less than nine players, including the marquee signings of Kasper Schmeichel, David Nugent, Michael Johnson, Neil Danns and Paul Konchesky should give the Foxes the quality needed to reach the Premiership for the first time since [...]

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Hyde Hoping To Be Touched By The Hand Of Hod

July 1, 2011

It might have escaped many people’s notice this month, but one of the most intriguing lower-league stories of the week involves the return to England of one Glenn Hoddle, former national team boss and psychic-consulter extraordinaire. Hoddle and his eponymous football academy have linked up with Conference North side Hyde FC, a team which now [...]

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Northampton Town – the Ned Flanders of the Football League?

June 17, 2011

How willing would you be to switch your allegiance to another team – one based 15 miles away? Most fans would be recoiling in horror at this prospect, but for one team’s supporters, it could be the future. I wrote last week about the crisis affecting every football fan’s favourite-monikered team, Rushden and Diamonds, as [...]

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Rushden’s Diamonds Are No Longer Sparkling

June 12, 2011

Yesterday Rushden and Diamonds FC were officially expelled from the Conference, marking probably the darkest day in the very short history of many fans second favourite team (if not just for their unique name). Struggling with debts of nearly a million pounds, and having been docked five points last month for unpaid tax payments, the [...]

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Calling Time On Lower League Debt?

June 9, 2011

As news broke today that the Premiership has once again generated record income (breaking the £2 BILLION barrier), it got me thinking about how this money would be received lower down the leagues. The Championship is supposedly a bigger league than Serie A, drawing larger audiences and seeing more goals, and with ex-Premier League teams [...]

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New Pirates Boss Is Joining A Sinking Ship

June 7, 2011

I don’t really like Bristol Rovers. As a Bristol City fan, that’s not really that surprising. I don’t like their kit, their players, their ever-changing roll of managers, and I especially don’t like their branding of themselves as Bristol’s “Friendly Club”, despite the fact they attract only a third of City’s fanbase, and sold their [...]

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Plymouth’s Pilgrims Hope For A Brighter Future

June 3, 2011

For all you Birmingham and West Ham fans who are finding the thought of playing at a lower level deplorable, that your finances will be stretched and your stature to lower, consider this – at least you’re not a Plymouth Argyle fan. The tale of Argyle’s last few seasons reads like an absolute nightmare for [...]

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