I am of the opinion that all football games that kick off to a temperature of 25C or higher must be immediately called off until a more realistic temperature is reached. At least, that is how I remember Harrow 1 Eton 1. Your humble/esteemed editor was getting settled before Matt E scorched one in from
Ah, another pre-season, another commendable result. How does Kent 1 Surrey 1 do you? Out of the three games against Conference sides, this one was probably the hardest of the lot, as we were on post-Barnet comedown, and against a side who had Conf style fitness. None the less, we did actually take the lead,
Now THIS was the pre-season stuffing I so badly wanted. I just didn’t expect it to be Bonce 3 Barnet 0. Everything that could have gone right did go right. We were due a win and so it came, neatly packaged with a nice little note attached to it saying “enjoy”. I think there were
Like about 200 other bored hardy souls, I traipsed down to deepest Sussex to watch YMCA 2 Borstal 0. Which, it has to be said, was a tad unfair on us. OK, it wasn’t our first team, and it appears that our back four hasn’t played together before, but when you hit the woodwork about
Pre season continues, and the expected stuffing actually turned into a credit worthy Bees 2 Bluebottles 0. Credit worthy because it did show that we were capable of holding our own. Despite not recognising most of our new players – and just as I had started to recognise our old ones – it looked pretty
Isn’t it nice to be back watching our blue/yellow shirted heroes strut their stuff? What do you mean, you want a couple of more weeks rest? Oh well, back to reality, with Dagenham Motors 1 Crispins 0 getting our attention. The game itself was full of committment – I made the comment last season that