Don’t just read The Washbag, there’s a whole football blogosphere out there. Here are some of my picks of the week for a bit of light reading over a lazy weekend in the sun.

How Seven Days Ruined the Reputation of Doncaster Rovers – Donny fanzine Viva Rovers refelcts on a turbelent seven days which has seen the sacking of the popular and successful, now former, manager Sean O’Driscoll. Despite Doncaster having been on an awful run of 19 games without a win, he retained widespread support. With the appointment of Dean Saunders set to overturn years of attractive football, the O’Driscoll era will live long in the memories of Doncaster supporters.

The key midweek Championship game was the meeting of Brighton and Crystal Palace. A match, rivalry and passion which, similar to our own A420 derby with Oxford United, is intensely local and widely underestimated. How Brighton v Palace Grew Into An Unlikely Rivalry on The Guardian explains why a series of matches and events in the late 1970s set the clubs at loggerheads.

For a review of the Eagle’s 3-1 victory there’s no better analsysis than Palace Late Show Crowns Championship’s Finest Night Yet on the excellent The Seventy Two.

In a week that former Swindon Chairman Andrew Fitton has resigned from his position as a Director of the club’s holding company, its right to republish a Washbag article posted back in April, shortly after Andrew resigned as chairman following our relegation from League One. In this piece I ask whether Fitton was Swindon’s saviour or failure?

Finally, the Guardian provides extracts from The Craddle of The Game, a new book of football photos by Stuart Roy Clarke – of Homes of Football – who documents what it means to support a football team over the years. Swindon Town make it in there, see photo 9 of 15 via this link.