England… Master of none 1 Jan 20171 Jan 2017 What happens when you get a bit lippy and suggest to one of your colleagues that their job on a match day was "easy"? It seemed I was just about…
Lewes FC… LIfe in the gutter 7 Feb 2016 Hope is a viable strategy for many football clubs - in fact for many it is the only strategy. It's a motto, held together by duck tape, that underpins the…
Lewes FC… Conditional decisions 3 Jan 2016 Up and down the country teams who haven't had the best of starts to the season will be encouraged by the fact they come into the first game of the…
Kingstonian… Football is nothing 22 Nov 201522 Nov 2015 Being a football fan means having to take the rough with the smooth. You often hear manager's bemoan their luck when decisions don't go their way, or when a break…
Hampton and Richmond Borough FC… We may be in the gutter but we are looking up at the stars 31 Oct 2015 It's not been the best starts to a season down here at The Dripping Pan. A cracking pre-season, with our young squad passing the ball on the ground and scoring…
Non league football… Screw you guys, I’m going home 30 Jul 201531 Jul 2015 To be fair there was a dozen or so titles I could have used for this mini-blog about my visit to watch South Park. Not since Rhubarb & Custard Rovers…
Lewes FC… Everybody needs good neighbours 19 Jul 201520 Jul 2015 Having a professional club just five miles down the road often appears to be a bad thing for a Non-League club. You have to make the best of the situation…
Lewes FC… We’ll win nothing with kids….probably 12 Jul 2015 It's been fourteen games and nearly three years since Lewes's first team squad won a Pre-Season Friendly. Of course we will always be told that at this stage of the…
European Football… Guaranteed a Kick-in 5 Mar 201416 Mar 2014 "The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation" - Bertrand Russell Back in December 2009, Arsene Wenger, a man seen by many as a guardian of football purity, came…
Non league football… Mine’s a tale that cannot be told 22 Dec 2013 When do we ever learn? On the weekend before Christmas last season virtually every game south of the Watford Gap was postponed due to torrential rain. Throughout the Non-Leagues the…
Blue Square South… Folkestone unconquered 3 Aug 201317 Aug 2013 Another Pre-season Saturday, another scorching hot summer's day. It would be rude not to take in a game on such a fine day. And that is why I find myself…
Lewes FC… On cloud ninety 27 Jul 20134 Aug 2013 After a week of moving from city to city across Europe for work it was good to return home. And by home I of course mean The Dripping Pan. I…
Non league football The principles of cause and effect 21 Jul 201327 Jul 2013 "Ladies love me, girls adore me. I mean even the ones who never saw me Like the way that I rhyme at a show. The reason why, man, I don't…
Lewes FC… From here to paternity 18 Jul 201321 Jul 2013 "Welcome to Lewes", sparkles the sign in the early evening sunshine as you enter the Dripping Pan these days. An iconic image of fans-favourite Nathan Crabb, arms outstretched, tempting you…
Dagenham & Redbridge… Welcome to Squeeze Gut Alley 29 Jun 20134 Jul 2013 Whitstable, home of England's biggest village green (despite the fact it is a town), Alan Davies and TV's worst comedian, Harry Hill. Twinned with Mölndal in Sweden and "just good…
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