“Hoping for a goalfest after last Saturday.” Ask, and it will given you; seek, and ye shall find. (Matthew 7:7) Yes, three goals count as a goalfest. Don’t be greedy. Finally managed to get my OASF Road to the EFL sticker album last Saturday. Don’t worry if you missed out, they're now available online . To my utter delight, I got a Fondop shiny. The day was already made. There was one change to the starting line-up, with Woods coming back in for Payne. I like Payne, he’s ener

Oh good, another 0-0 draw to attempt to write about. My favourite thing. We were in the hospitality for the Crewe game for our mate Matt’s 80th birthday. The food and service were brilliant, Braddy got Matt up for everyone to sing Happy Birthday to him, and Frank came looking for him after the game asking, “where’s this old codger?” and shook his hand and had photos taken with him. It was lovely. Hope you had a fantastic afternoon, Matt. 📸 Peter Headen. Two absolute legends.

Long term, our strategy of being crap for a month, then really good for a month, isn’t sustainable. We can worry about that come December, though. For now, let’s enjoy how well November is going. Being, as we are, dead posh, me and Andy snubbed Salford away and instead saved our money (and let’s face it, we needed it) to make a weekend of it in Harrogate. We stayed in a very nice hotel the other side of the Stray (even the parks get quirky names in North Yorkshire) from the g

Well, that was more like it, wasn’t it? Amazing how taking your chances and starting on the front foot makes for a totally different game. Mellon snr spoke about how important the FA Cup is to him, and he did indeed treat it with the respect it deserves, naming an unchanged line-up. No tinkering, no messing about. It was great to meet up with Tom and Ed from Terrace Edition before the game. Tom’s a Northampton fan, Ed’s a Latics fan, and Tom got some cracking photos around Bo

Well October was a pile of shite, wasn’t it? Two points from a possible twelve, no wins, Conlon crocked for the season. Thank fuck it’s over, bring on November. The weather was pretty beautiful last Saturday, if nothing else. One of those glorious autumn afternoons when you need two pairs of socks at Boundary Park, but you also need sunglasses. Given where Shrewsbury are in the league, it wasn’t unreasonable to expect to beat them at home, and it started promisingly. In the o

August was meh, September was really good, October’s turning out a bit crap. Consistent in our inconsistency, you could say. It really didn’t start that badly at Salford last Saturday. Pett had a decent shot from outside the box early on that Young tipped over the bar, and Mellon jnr headed wide from the resulting corner. Woods had a low shot from the edge of the D saved. It couldn’t last though, could it. It was too easy for Nmai to run into our box, and Monthe, having been

Ugh. Writing about 0-0 draws is fucking shit. I don’t blame you if you want to sack off reading this and doomscroll Twitter instead. The starting line-up v Barrow made a bit more sense than the one at Notts County. Pett was back in, albeit playing wide, and was captain as expected. Apparently, he didn’t start at Meadow Lane because he’s carrying an ankle injury, which made playing him in the Vertu trophy all the more inexplicable. We were on top from the start and had a good

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