The Ball is Round

Take me out to the ball game

Sep. 1 | Back in March this year a posh looking envelope landed on the mat at TBIR towers. Not one of our normal bills or another letter from Sullivan and Gold telling me that they have now sold 1m season tickets but there is still space for me. This was an...

Dentures, Dogging and a dancing Nun

Aug. 17 | How many people can honestly say they have seen football history being made in the flesh? It is amazing to think just how many people today in their 60’s were at Wembley on the 30th July 1966 when England won the Jules Rimet trophy considering...

The Lego version of Sunday’s debacle

Jun. 30 |

Football fans are so easy to wind up

Jun. 16 | Picture the scene.  You have saved for months, even years, to follow your country in South Africa.  You’ve got confirmation of your tickets, both the new England shirt and are looking forward to your trip in a few days time.  What could go wrong?...

Just your normal Sunday afternoon

Jun. 9 | What will you be doing Sunday?  Washing the car?  Mowing the lawn?  Dare I say going to Church? Well that is what we normally do at TBIR Towers, but this Sunday we thought we would do something different.  Well, its the World Cup and all that so we...

Carlsberg don’t do pitch invasions but if they did….

May. 16 | Picture the scene – last ever game at your home ground from the past 100+ years and you have just scored a goal in the dying minutes. You would want to celebrate wouldn’t you? Chesterfield 2 AFC Bournemouth 1 – Saltergate – 8th...

Just whose side are you on?

Mar. 18 | We have just experienced the worst winter in thirty odd years which has resulted in our football calendar being decimated.  No club was immune from the weather, or the namby pamby local authority rules that saw perfectly playable pitches being called...