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Jul 20, 20245 min read
GR8 To Be Back
Gainsborough Trinity 3-5 Scunthorpe United (Friendly) Less than 18 miles of the A159 separates north Lincolnshire neighbours...
Jul 12, 20244 min read
Family Event
Holzheimer SG 0-3 Fortuna Dusseldorf (Friendly) The morning after the night before as England secure a semi-final against the Netherlands...
Jul 12, 20244 min read
Saka Can
England 1-1 Switzerland (UEFA European Championships Quarter Final) *5-3 pens aet It took a 96th minute overhead kick by Jude Bellingham...
Jul 3, 20244 min read
All Manc Aren't We?
Manchester United 2-1 Manchester City (FA Cup Final) The FA Cup final, now 143 years old, it's a once very special event in the English...
Apr 30, 20245 min read
Toone Army
Leicester City 0-1 Manchester United (Women’s Super League) I’ve not done as many women’s games in recent months but I never mind too...
Apr 30, 20246 min read
Wooden Spoon
Long Eaton United 2-1 Leiston (Southern League Central Division) I’ve had to google where Leiston is. Apparently in East Suffolk, a town...
Apr 23, 20246 min read
Bag Drop
Manchester United 3-3 Coventry City (FA Cup Semi Final) *4-2 pens aet This is the game of the weekend for me, the one ‘I have a feeling...
Apr 23, 20245 min read
Fine Dining
Manchester City 1-0 Chelsea (FA Cup Semi Final) All the news this week has been about the scrapping of replays and (more importantly) the...
Apr 17, 20247 min read
Go (South) West
Weston Super Mare 1-1 Eastbourne Borough (National League South) I’m back home from Gateshead well gone midnight as I drive past a Kebab...
Apr 16, 20245 min read
No Surprise
Gateshead 2-1 Chesterfield (National League North) Almost a year a go today was the last time I saw Chesterfield play, they thumped an...
Apr 10, 20246 min read
Noisy Children
Peterborough Sports 1-0 Farsley Celtic (National League North) Tonight’s football includes Real Madrid verses Manchester City and Arsenal...
Apr 7, 20245 min read
Ginsters Pasty
Alfreton Town 0-0 Curzon Ashton (National League North) It’s the start of the new cricket season this weekend but I’m not needed until...
Apr 2, 20247 min read
April Fools
Peterborough Sports 1-0 Gloucester City (National League North) As I scrolled through my phone in bed, a photo appeared on my ‘X’ of Ian...
Mar 27, 20247 min read
Jude's Saviour
England 2-2 Belgium (Friendly) The first ever international between these two was played in 1921 in Brussels, when Charlie Buchan and...
Mar 25, 20246 min read
It's Just Like Watching...
England 0-1 Brazil (Friendly) It was May 2000 and one of England's last ever appearances at the old 'Twin Towers' when I excitedly took...
Mar 20, 20247 min read
Bees Sting Spitfires
Barnet 2-1 Eastleigh (National League) If Barnet win all their remaining games this season, and Chesterfield lose all theirs, the Bees...
Mar 18, 20244 min read
Dance Group
Sheffield United 2-0 Crystal Palace (Women's Championship) It's Sunday, 10am, pissing down outside I'm leaving the dog home alone as the...
Mar 18, 20245 min read
Mooney Mooney Mooney
Boston United 3-0 Farsley Celtic (National League North) Last weekend, Kelsey Mooney & Jimmy Knowles became the first players since 1967...
Mar 15, 20248 min read
Men Against Boysh
Aston Villa 4-0 Ajax (UEFA Europa Conference League Round of 16) Johnny van’t Schip was one of my favourite overseas players when I was...
Mar 6, 20246 min read
Counter Attack
Gateshead 2-3 Solihull Moors (National League) Think Anthony Gormley and the Angel of the North, Gateshead Metro Centre, Byker Grove,...
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