The Ball is Round

Tag: Football League

  • Artificial Intelligence or Pitch Perfect?

    Whilst some 3G playing surfaces may have been fit for football, the surrounding areas such as terraces, stands, walkways and car parks may not.  In the case of Cray Wanderers’s game today, at Bromley FC, this was the issue that saw their game postponed.  There’s very little a club can do to protect these areas…

  • Everybody needs good neighbours

    Whilst Brighton should have wrapped it up at the death when Ward pulled his shot wide, a draw was a fair result for both teams, although obviously one set of fans went off down Mountfield Road much happier than the other set. Putting my Chairman’s hat back on, we couldn’t have been happier. Excellent crowd,…

  • A love of Tembling Madness

    Memories of York City? Has to be Keith Houchen’s goal in the mid-Eighties to beat Arsenal in the FA Cup. Back then Arsenal were a poor side, frightened by the looming presence of the opposition’s goal and constantly moaning that their artistic flair was being stifled by brutish tactics from the opposition. So nothing’s really…

  • Marching on together – from Leeds to eternity

    Leeds, Leeds, Leeds

  • Go East, my son

    After the game we headed back into the Supporters Club. Such was the enthusiasm to get in there a queue had developed. Everyone’s a winner – the fans get a decent place to have a drink, chat about the game and watch the late game on Sky, whilst the club benefits from the additional revenue.…

  • Gone and forgotten – Aberdare Athletic FC

    Aberdare was a boom town post World War One. The local landscape was dotted with mines, both in terms of coal and iron ore and employment was high. The football club played at the Aberdare Athletic Ground (also known as the Ynys Stadium) which had a capacity in its prime of around 23,000. However, with…

  • Gone and forgotten – Part 4 – Nelson FC

    Nelson is a small town on the edge of Burnley. It is notable for having some of the lowest house prices in the United Kingdom, where you can still buy a two bedroom terrace for less than £30,000. But for ten years the town could also boast a Football League side that went on to…

  • Calling the Shots

    Any hopes of holding on are destroyed, and Aldershot continue to press forward. There is the occasional sight of the ball heading towards the Bobby Moore stand (where West Ham are attacking), but it’s more often than not heading the other way. Those well acquainted with West Ham and cup ties now fear the worst,…

  • The wait is over as The Championship returns

    Much has been made of Gould and Sullivan’s take over and the £80m debt at Upton Park, but the there are signs of a very promising season and a quick return to the Premiership will be all important for the future of the club.

  • Camulodnum accipiatur primum….

    One thousand nine hundred and fifty years to the day that Camulodnum fell (well, newspapers from that day are a bit think on the ground) here Danny and I were as we heading into the car park of the Weston Homes Community Stadium. My feelings of building identikit stadiums on the outskirts of towns with…