Is there a fire drill? - The Mighty vs Ipswich

Ipswich are a side I struggle to have an opinion about. I don't hate, fear or resent them. I don't look down upon them sneeringly or look up at them enviously. They are just neutral in my mind. I can tell you about Bobby Robson and Alf Ramsey of course, but they seem distant...

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OK will do just fine. The Mighty vs Horrible Horwich

This is it. The night we ignite. A carnival, a fiesta of football. It's fucking Bolton. Not that tinpot lot up the road or some non-entity of market town with a stupid nickname like 'the Barley boys' or 'the jolly jousters' It's Bolton. It's 53, Nat Lofthouse...

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Valentine's week breakup - Goodbye Larry x

So, this is the end. It's more of a half hearted wave than a tearful goodbye. Too much has happened. We grew apart and you broke our hearts. You tried again, but whether we couldn't get over what happened last time, or whether you were just with us to be...

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The spiritual argument against VAR

How was your week reader?  Was it an awful crushing weight that threatened to smash the beetle like carapace of social nicety that you constructed in order to negotiate the agony of interacting with the awful creatures around you? The ones whose ugliness and painfulness...

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Cheers Tilty!

So, it’s goodbye to a load of players and hello to a load more. It’s hard to shed many tears about most of them going, seen as we’ve either never seen them play, or when we did, they were pretty average. I think Callum Guy will do well at Carlisle but whilst he’s liked...

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