The Coastal Resorts Cup (NW Group) - Morecambe vs the Mighty

I recently read a very persuasive article about how football should bring back local competitions like the Lancashire Cup as an antidote to the world where the biggest teams have annexed all the glory. I agree and I'd suggest a twist, with a tournament along the lines of...

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Sun, fun and the glorious roof of the Warwick Road End: Carlisle United vs the Mighty

 Heading up, the fields are gasping for rain, the verges dry and yellow. The usually sodden moorland shimmers like a tinderbox desert. Carlisle itself is heaving. A sea of leopard print, false eyelashes, muscle shirts and hormones. Lads and lasses move in packs, primped,...

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BSG Chemie Leipzig

Fuck me, it's hot. Hot, hot, hot, hot. It's too hot to do anything and if you do anything, it makes you bad tempered and if you go anywhere to do anything, it's inevitable that there'll be about 2 million other people trying to do it at the same time as you which just makes...

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Don't bother: England vs Italy

A lovely butterfly I saw on a walk yesterday. Cos it's soothing. England like most places is soup. There’s cunts, clowns, crooks, chancers bobbing about next to heroes, decency, kindness, cheer, laughter & love navigating around spite, pain & misery. Be good, be...

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The Glorious English Summer: the Mighty vs Southport

This is definitely the big game of the weekend... I can't think of anything else going on that would detract from the spectacle. The highlight of the drive across is a sign lashed to a lampost that says "stop giant mushroom farm domination" I can only wonder... Problems...

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The feel good hit of the summer?

In a nutshellI’ve fucking loved this Euros. Well, I did until the inevitable penalty failings and the unedifying events surrounding the final. Being totally objective and forgetting the wider context, the final was a brilliantly tense game, a suitably wrought occasion that...

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