The TBIR Blueprint for the future of Non League football – part 1

Mar. 14 | 1. Create standard co-operation partnership agreements between Premier League/Football League clubs and Non League teams. Now this may seem like madness, but there is significant sense in this move as the Hyde/Manchester City model has shown. Last summer,...

Are you watching David Gold?

Mar. 13 | £18.50 for this great viewThe thought of having to watch my football in a half empty athletics stadium is as appealing as watching a DVD box set of Kerry Katona and Katie Price’s TV highlights. From significant experience of watching games overseas...

A House of Cards

Feb. 26 | Lewes 0 Woking 4 – The Dripping Pan – Saturday 26th February 2011 They say a picture paints a thousand words, so below is twenty thousand of them summing up a depressing afternoon at The Dripping Pan. Normal service will be resumed as soon...

“Ah look at all the lonely people”

Feb. 16 | Valentines Day. The most overhyped commercialised day in our calendar. The pressure we all feel to try and go one better each year to prove our love. As the years roll on, and our relationships mature, why do you need one day to try and prove your...

Stand up for the Bromley Boys

Feb. 7 | In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave’s team of...

The men that Fleet Street hate to love

Jan. 23 | There is no doubt that blogging is the future of journalism. Twitter especially has revolutionised the way that stories are broken and shared within seconds around the globe. It is no wonder that 24 of the 25 biggest newspapers in the world are experiencing...

Unsung Heroes Part 5: Get with the programmes(s)

Jan. 21 | One of the essential components of a match day when I was growing up was the programme. Before the days of the Internet (Oi! Grandad – shut up!) it was the only way you could get information on what was going on at the club. In the 1970′s...

Hell Fire

Jan. 8 | A week is a long time in football, but 5 days is even less. That is the time lapsed between the 600 or so Lewes fans leaving the Dripping Pan on Monday after the defeat to Welling United, and the same group arriving back for the visit of Eastleigh. There...

One foot in the Grave…send

Jan. 2 | Now if you are reading this it means that for once Easyjet actually managed to fly one of the those airplane things from Copenhagen to London Stansted on time (and if not you have somehow broken my tough password for the admin area of my blog). That...

A little frost and it all goes wrong

Nov. 27 | Today’s football had been planned for week and was due to coincide with a nice family lunch as a starting point. CMF wanted to spend some of my money on Christmas presents and I had no intention of venturing into any of the 21st century cathedrals...