On the fourth day of Christmas….The best away day

Dec. 28 | “On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, an away trip that fills you with glee.” Who doesn’t love a football away day.  Bunch of mates, a few beers, being beaten senseless by the police, stones thrown at you by local...

On the third day of Christmas….The best new ground visited

Dec. 28 | “On the Third Day of Christmas my true love gave to me….a trio of new grounds to see” This was a toughie.  We saw games in forty new grounds in 2011 and so to pick three was very difficult because all had endeering factors.  Whyteleafe’s...

Ron the Seal

Dec. 5 | Whilst Edinburgh were welcoming two new Panda’s, we travelled to Coxyde, literally the closest Belgium town to England with a semi-professional football team (34 miles from Calais since you ask) where the locals had been waiting all week for the...

Sexual Healing

Apr. 18 | “Let’s get it on”. 7.20am Sunday 17th April 2011. I was waiting outside East Croydon station for an Englishman, a Scotsman and a quasi-Spanishman. We were heading east to the Kent coast and further. Our purpose was of course football...

You’re just a bunch of Antwerps

Mar. 28 | I could have written loads about Saturday but I let Danny Last have that pleasure here. The first thing I remember about Sunday morning was Deaks running around the room in his pants telling us we had 20 minutes to get up. I vaguely remember events from...