Braintree Town 2-1 Eastleigh  (National League) The games are coming thick and fast, a busy month ending in Essex ahead of plenty more action to come in February. I last visited Braintree on Bonfire night where there were plenty of fireworks, but not much on the pitch in a dire single goal defeat to Brackley, I’ve seen their results have hardly improved, Steve Pitt’s side have lost their last three, including a penalty shoot out defeat in the National League Cup at Truro City

Nottingham Forest 4-0 Ferencvaros  (UEFA Europa League Group Stages) As I don’t often get the chance to watch them, I’ve been looking at ticket prices all week to see my team Nottingham Forest play their final Europa League group stage match of this season, they’ve already qualified for the playoffs, not much riding on this one, so it’s annoying to find out prices are around £60/70 per ticket for what is pretty much a meaningless match. A couple of seasons ago fans were moani

Peterborough Sports 4-3 Macclesfield  (National League North) Storm Chandra has been threatening to call matches off up and down the country today, but Pims Park is made of hardened stuff these days, a 1pm pitch inspection passed, it’ll be my first watch of Macclesfield FC, the team that beat the FA Cup holders Crystal Palace earlier this month. Formed as recently as 2020 after Macclesfield Town went bust, it’s been a rapid rise since local businessman Rob Smethurst brought t

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Sheffield United  (Women’s Super League 2) I took the wife to theatre on Saturday so no football for me, she has allowed me to work the Sunday instead, so I’ve tied it in with popping out for a few pints with a mate in Bingham later, I can get a lift down to the ground and take the bus which leaves Trent Bridge Cricket Ground shortly after the game. Nottingham is after all my back garden, I live about ten minutes’ drive from the ground, a good 45 minutes

Stamford 3-2 AFC Sudbury  (Southern League Central Division) I’m back at Stamford, after watching them last Tuesday at Harborough where I thought they did ok against high spending promotion pushers in 2-0 defeat, they since beat Worcester City 1-0 at the weekend, Jack Duffy scoring on his return, he had a 20 match ban after an altercation with a fan earlier this season, oh how the Daniels have missed him. Bottom of the table on 16 points, Sudbury are only a couple of places a

FC Halifax Town 2-1 Boston United  (National League) A ground I’ve been trying to get to for an awful long time is the Shay, longstanding home of Halifax Town and of course Halifax Panthers Rugby League which is very big around these parts of West Yorkshire. Before liquidation in 2008, I always thought of Halifax as a football league club, founder members of the Third Division North in 1921, they stood firm in the bottom two tiers of the league until 1993, following five seas

Harborough Town 2-0 Stamford  (Southern League Central Division) On Saturday, Harborough Town were beaten in the top of the table clash at Spalding United, a 3-1 defeat in Lincolnshire leaving the Bees nine points below the Tulips going into tonight’s match with bottom of the table Stamford, but with four games in hand. Ironically Stamford’s last game was also against Spalding at Christmas, the Daniels have had almost three weeks without a match following wintery postponement

Sheffield United 3-4 Mansfield Town  (FA Cup Round Three) It’s been an incredible weekend already. On Friday night Wrexham beat Forest in a thriller on penalties to provide headline writers with their much anticipated ‘Hollywood Ending’… Yesterday sixth tier Macclesfield trumped even that by knocking out holders Crystal Palace to write themselves into David verses Goliath territory, the Silkmen became only the ninth non-league club in 100 years to beat top flight opposition i

Doncaster Rovers 2-3 Southampton (FA Cup Round Three) So I chose the right game to go to last night, not putting myself through a miserable watch as a Forest fan, they were beaten by Wrexham on penalties and became the first ‘giant killing’ of the round, today they’ll be more of the same as I head out the door towards Doncaster, who host Southampton, for more FA Cup action. 23rd in League One, Doncaster Rovers have never been as far as the fifth round in the FA Cup, their re

Port Vale 1-0 Fleetwood Town  (FA Cup Round Three) It’s the FA Cup Third Round weekend, the David against Goliath of annual football fixturing, although tonight I’ve got a pair of David’s to go see play. I was slightly concerned that I wouldn’t get to see any football at all this weekend, Storm Goretti threatening to cause havoc, but it looks like we are through the worst of it, the covers have been on at Vale Park and a midday inspection has given the match all clear. Vale h

Boston United 1-2 Eastleigh (National League) It's been a cold frosty start to the new year and as I wake up this first Saturday of 2026 I'm soon checking my phone if today's game between Boston and Eastleigh is on. They've had the covers on overnight at the Jakemans Stadium and the head groundsman is optimistic, pitch in his opinion playable but the Referee will confirm upon his arrival at 12pm. The Eastleigh team have been staying in the area so every chance will be given

Tamworth 0-2 FC Halifax Town  (National League) I’ve spent a couple of days in Whitby, with the wife and in-laws, we went up to Sandsend and Staithes, before coming home through Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington, stopping off at a lovely beach at Fraisthorpe full of dog walkers, heading back home, over the Humber Bridge at Hull towards Nottingham, where I would unload the car, have a brew, then head off again, down the M42 towards Tamworth. The Lambs took a tonking  on Boxin