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Category Archives: Football
All that way for nothing? Not necessarily
SPARE a thought for Ashington AFC, dumped out of the FA Vase last Saturday after an ultimately unsuccessful 702 mile round-trip to the Cornish moors. On a weekend when so many gargantuan efforts by fans and club officials came to … Continue reading
What to expect in January in the Premier League
On the verge of the New Year, writewyattuk takes a look at the sporting crystal ball to see what the first month of 2013 will hold for the English top flight, club by club. Arsenal Theo Walcott is switched to … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Premier League, reading, Swansea City, Tottenham, Wigan Athletic
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Spare us the Santa’s sack cliches
THERE was an almost inevitable sideshow at this week’s Premier League clash between Sunderland and Reading, with the football media waiting to see which manager would go first. Would it be Martin O’Neill, a year to the day since his … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Manchester City, Manchester United, Premier League, reading, southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Swansea City
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A poor return and the not so magnificent seven
Did that really happen? It wasn’t supposed to. I was only at Ewen Fields, Hyde, to stretch my impressive unbeaten run watching Woking FC to 16 matches. Despite still perceiving myself as some sort of Jonah, I’d not actually seen … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Aaron Howe, Brett Johnson, Chris Sedgwick, Garry Hill, Hyde, Kevin Betsy, Phil Jevons, Scott Spencer, Stalybridge Celtic, Woking
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Kenny’s death put bitter rivalries into context
WE ALL know the sad tale about the world-beating football team making their way back home after a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade in early February, 1958, refuelling in Southern Germany before heavy snow and engine problems combined … Continue reading
Remembering England’s Evelyn
IT’S difficult to know where to start when it comes to a suitable Remembrance weekend tribute to all those who died in military service protecting our freedom. But I’ve chosen a distinguished England international footballer and schoolteacher who grew up … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Football, sport
Tagged Bradford City, Evelyn Lintott, godalming, guildford, Leeds City, Plymouth Argyle, Queens Park Rangers, Somme, West Yorkshire, Woking
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Sat Nav be buggered – the pitiful search for Rodney Parade
We were doing so well, with the motorway traffic between Lancashire and the South Wales border flowing as smoothly as could be expected on a busy Saturday morning at the beginning of half term and everything going to plan. The … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Bradley Bubb, Chartists, Kevin Betsy, lancashire, Monmouthshire, Newport County, Newport Gwent Dragons, Pontypool, Surrey, Woking
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Non-league football still has White Tigers in its tail
As Mark Twain, once wrote, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” And there were elements of that in the reporting of troubled Truro City’s final demise late last week. It’s all been happening at Treyew Road of late, … Continue reading
Posted in Football, sport
Tagged Colne Dynamoes, Conference South, Cornwall, Fleetwood Town, Kettering Town, non-League Day, Staines Town, Stewart Yetton, Truro City, Woking
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