Best moment of the year.

Memory is a strange thing. What we remember and what actually happened are two different things. In my mind, the goal that grabbed a last second draw against Southend was Curtis Tilt's magnificent overhead kick. The fans who flocked on were drawn by magic of...

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Video Assistant Referees and Mutually Assured Destruction

In League One, we don't have VAR. I really, really don't want it. The interrupted moment of pleasure, the application of a cold science to a game built on passion and romance. Attending a game with VAR is like attending a rave with a sound limiter that...

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Boxing Day Hangover: The Mighty vs Accrington Stanley

Christmas is never like the cards suggest it will be. Boxing Day is a grey affair, the rain is on the verge of becoming sleet as we set off. Spray on the motorway makes driving miserable, but it's ok, because we are off to see the Mighty and today is going to be the day...

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Hopelessly optimistic...

The hope springs eternal. It might be one of those days, where the mighty slip their leash and the 50s live again. Clattering into tackles, second balls bouncing our way, wingers racing away into space, delicious balls curling into the path of onrushing players and strikers turning with arms aloft taking the roar of the crowd. Winter fires lit,...

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Has the EU ruined football? Part 2 of a stats filled pointless exercise.

The last voice of leave - Aston Villa 1996/97 After writing part 1, in which I proposed a football version of 'left behind Britain,' based on a comparative ten year analysis of how footballing power had been coalesced in 3 key urban areas (and Leicester) I was left with a...

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Did football cause Brexit?

disclaimer - this appears to be not about football, but will become about football after about 5 paragraphs. It will help to read them as it gives context to the stuff about football.  The Metropolitan elite take on the Heartlands I think I've found something to say...

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Christmas cancelled - The Mighty vs Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is one of those towns which are a million miles from anywhere. You don't pass through Shrewsbury on the way to anywhere, unless you are going to Newport on the train which no one does because its Newport. It's not near anywhere in particular. Q: Where is Shrewsbury?...

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I can't feel my feet - Sunderland vs the Mighty.

I've never been to the Stadium of Light before and what a ground. How Sunderland are mired in League One and Bournemouth seem a fixture in the Premier League beggars belief. This is a proper big club ground, with proper big club things knocking about, like burger vans, chippies...

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The Caretaker

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