05 December 2010 11:38
When I was nobbut a lad my first footballing experience came not through my local club, the mighty Leicester Fosse but via the pages of Tiger magazine, the centrepiece of which was a colour spread of Roy of the Rovers. In those post-World Cup winning...
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22 November 2010 22:10
“No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!”
If the Victorian poet Thomas Hood had lived one hundred and...
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17 November 2010 11:36
Muddy Waters reminded us in in 1957 that he had indeed got his mojo working. Twenty years later, Graham Parker of the late and much lamented Rumour, insisted that it don't mean a thing if you aint got that swing. Quite what a working mojo looks like or...
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10 November 2010 15:05
City are having a fine season. Second in the league, still in the FA Trophy and playing decent football. This is a side that has all the hallmarks of one which should either win the league or be handily placed in the play-offs come the end of the season....
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31 October 2010 17:58
Tuesday night saw City embark on their defence of the Red Insure League Cup, playing over at Barton, which is just beyond Hitchin. The League Cup is a funny sort of competition, somewhat like the Carling Cup for the big teams. No-one really cares about...
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23 October 2010 16:55
After the petulance and sulking that has dripped out of Manchester this week, I was need in something restorative. Seeing and hearing Lord Ferg behaving like a disappointed headmaster who has discovered his head boy having an illicit ciggie behind the...
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15 October 2010 14:48
Before he wore purple and announced that the world was run by reptiles, David Icke was a fine sports journalist. In 1983 he produced an excellent book entitled It’s a Tough Game, Son, in which he produced case studies of young talents whose lights had...
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09 October 2010 10:56
In cricket, there exists a strange phenomenon called the commentator’s curse. It works like this: a batsmen looks in good nick, is playing the ball around and is utterly untroubled. Set for the day, as they say. At this point, Aggers or CMJ or one of...
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04 October 2010 22:02
Mark Smith update: still in fine form but unable to stop the juggernaut that is Cambridge City from sweeping his Hitchin boys aside to record a 2-0 win and progress to the next round of the FA Cup, where Dover will await on the coast.
City weren’t...
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27 September 2010 23:17
I was pretty effusive in my praise for Mark Smith in last week’s offering. For new readers, Mark is the former City defender who at 42 can play the socks off lads half his age, as he proved on Saturday when he not only marshalled the defence but had the...
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23 September 2010 21:03
On Saturday, Hitchin pop along to the Theatre of Dreams to play City in the big one: the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Cup. Win this one and two more and we’re in the First Round. Win that and two more and we can draw Man U at home and raise all the...
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19 September 2010 23:47
The club have decided to target the Freshers’ Fair in order to attract some student interest in table-topping tip top tastic Cambridge City. And good for whoever thought of it.
I’ve just returned from Sheffield, where I have delivered my oldest in...
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15 September 2010 19:33
Another day, another clean sheet, another win. On this occasion the joint attraction of Oxford and Cambridge’s second best professional football teams amounted to a whopping 146 souls, of which around 40 had made the journey from the Fens, to whom I tip...
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12 September 2010 08:35
The Magic of the Cup fleetingly cast its spell over Milton Road at the weekend. Very fleetingly, as it turned out. On the face of it, the conditions were perfect for a fabulous afternoon of football: bright sunshine, a verdant pitch, City at (almost)...
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09 September 2010 22:27
On Saturday City embark on their FA Cup odyssey at home to the relatively lowly Long Buckby, a team about whom I know very little other than they play in a division a few rungs below the Southern League Premier.
Football, being a desperately hierarchical...
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