Up for the Cup?

It's about time we won something again...It might be just me, but the fact that every football match is equally unspectacular right now, seems to have done the FA Cup the world of good. Ok, so the average Champions League team has slightly better players than Chorley, Marine...

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Four under forty watt floodlights : Harrogate Town Vs the Mighty

Splash out on 80 watts!The first year I followed football seriously was the first year of automatic promotion and relegation between the football league and non league. The team who came up were Scarborough, managed by some fella called Neil Warnock. Whatever happened to him...

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Then the wheels fell off: Doncaster Rovers vs the Mighty

The second halfWhen did it start being ok to charge people to watch something and also subject them to endless adverts? It's having cake and eating it if you ask me. So, after I've booked a train journey with LNER, ordered a crate of Carabao energy drink* and had Papa John's...

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The whole loaf - Peterborough Utd vs the Mighty

Whilst managers and pundits go on about fatigue and sharpness in terms of players, no one, but no one thinks of the poor bloggers. If you lose a star player, you can bring someone else in to take their place but in the cut throat world of cutting edge football blogging, there's...

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I gave in : the Mighty vs Leeds u21

There are few more pointless things than tonight's game. With a backdrop of bleating complaints from Jurgen, Ole, Jose and co about how it's really terrible that big rich football clubs have to play in the big rich competitions that make them big and rich, I find it astonishing...

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Gary Goals: Eastbourne Borough vs the Mighty

Never has football seemed so lonely as FA Cup first round day without supporters. A minutes silence and the last post echoing round an empty ground, a wreath laid in front of cardboard cutout supporters. It's a crying shame that Eastbourne are denied this match being played...

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Dizzying heights - the Mighty vs Wigan Athletic

Cotton wool please Neil. Put it this way. I've got history with Wigan. It's personal. I don't want the crappy carrier bag kit wearing non league club with ideas above their station who reside in a lego ground built on a sewage works to go bust. I really don't....

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