Tag: Evostik League
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If you want the rainbow…
One new name caught my eye – Basford United down in the Evostik League Division One South. Promoted to the league at the end of last season as Midland League Champions, the club are probably best known for featuring not one, but two Hendries, Stuart and Lee. Yep, that Lee. The 38 year old former…
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A kick in the privates
Like Goole AFC, Lincoln United’s honours roster is modest to say the least. But that’s not to say they couldn’t serve up some silky football to warm up the hundred and fifty or so fans who had made the trip to the dockside. The exterior of the ground may have been stark but the welcome…
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Cunning Linguists
You can have two different versions of events from the game. Version one is below, written by my fair hand and based on what I saw transpire over two hours, or you can look at the version on the Loughborough Dynamo website which said the game never took place because “following a security alert, and…
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The real home of football
The club drew up a list of rules by which the game should be played, unsurprisingly known as Sheffield Rules. These rudimentary rules of the game included the fact that players could handle the ball, though not catch it, players could push each other over but not kick or trip and each player should come…
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Romeo has nothing on me
Leek and Valentine’s Day – two odd bedfellows. Or are they? Some eighteen years ago, The Current Mrs Fuller and I headed off on our first ever holiday to Leek. These were the days before I knew what a ground hopper was, let alone whether anywhere I went had a team and CMF was still…
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On the gravy train again – From New Eltham to New Pudsey
The second half saw the wind drop for awhile, and was replaced by rain. As Dolly Parton once said, you need the rain before you can have the rainbow and sure enough it appeared soon after, distracting most of the 229 people in the ground for a few minutes. Farsley continued to attack but they…
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How was it for you? Part 3 – Ewch ar y Cymru
Favourite bits of the season? The final was unbelievable, even if it took a month of my life. The bad bits (of which there were few) paled in insignificance and really weren’t football’s fault (Northern Rail trains being an hour and a half late following an away Tuesday at Burscough was one of them). And…
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How was it for you? Part 1 – Keeping the Real FA Cup stuck together
In the autumn we had a cheesy but close encounter with the actual FA Cup in a pub in Sutton. No, really, we did, we have photos of Ray Stubbs to prove it. Dover kicked off the big Cup shocks by boshing the Gills, Brighton pooped on the Hornets and then Alan Lee scared the…
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There is only one reason for this treason
Places like Clitheroe, Skelmersdale and Prescot Cables never sounded so enticing. Because of the bad weather back in February, a whole round of games had been called off. And with a public holiday announced for the wedding, those ingenius chaps in the Northern League saved the souls of every football loving man in England. Take…
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The curious case of Glapwell FC
Since there is nothing to commend Mansfield to the nation’s hearts, other than swimming sweetheart Rebecca Adlington, and coke-addled kids TV bad-boy Richard Bacon, there is even less for Glapwell to be proud of. Although it did give the world Jo Guest (calm down at the back).
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17 Again….
After 11 minutes on the clock all of the talk around Cannon Park was whether Burscough would get double figures. To say that Retford started the game poorly would be like Sullivan and Gold actually took any interest in what us West Ham fans said. They were dreadful and found themselves 2-0 to goals from…
The Ball is Round 