One to forget - the Mighty vs Blackburn Rovers

The usual sort of intro... Is Josh Bowler playing? Something about the weather. Is Josh Bowler playing? Perhaps a shit attempt at satire. Is Josh Bowler playing? Maybe some sort of quasi literary observations on the journey. Is Josh Bowler playing? Perhaps mention a tune listened...

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Dear Josh...

"I loved the game, I loved the ball. I used to treat it like something that was... wonderful" (Matthews, S 1996) Dear Mr Bowler. I don't know you and you don't know me. It's a bit weird to write a letter to someone you don't know on the internet but hey ho, it's...

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And he scored for the Pool... : the Mighty vs Bristol City

Lads and lasses. You probably won't be able to carry on reading MCLF for much longer cos charging your phone or laptop will become a luxury. I'll try doing some futile crowd funding to get me to games but no one will have any money and we'll all be huddling around bins fighting...

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Breathless: Burnley vs the Mighty

Ah, Burnley. In many ways the Lancashire equivalent of one of those beautiful Mediterranean hillside towns you get in travel documentaries that are all valleys, sunshine, grapevines and terracotta tiles. Oh, how we laugh. No, but seriously, when I was a kid, I remember...

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How I accidentally became a global media influencer

The notion of influence and influencers is a really weird thing. I don't really understand why those annoyingly ebullient people with YouTube and Tiktok channels exist, nor why millions of people watch them taking shit out of boxes, talking about their headphones or putting...

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Life turns on small things: the Mighty vs Swansea City

Sometimes I love writing this blog. Not just when we've won and I'm all fizzing with expletives and metaphors for how good we are but also sometimes when we've lost and it's a cathartic way to sort out what I've seen and move on to the rest of life. Occasionally, it's a right...

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