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“I couldn’t make the replay though, I already had tickets for Duran Duran at the Poole Arts Centre that night.”
Today should be eve of the FA Cup final day. One of the most momentous occasions in the footballing calendar. Could it have been our year? We’ll never know now as the season has been voided. And yes, we are totally ignoring the fact that were knocked out in the early qualifying rounds by Blackfield […]
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A 10 hour journey to Norwich, Dinky Curtis’ goals, Ron Cox’s forehead and the Dorset Regiment Band. Part one of the FA Cup files.
It’s FA Cup final week! Or at least it should be anyway. What was previously one of my favourite sporting days of the year when growing up is now seen as almost an inconvenience by many of the bigger sides. The obvious attraction of finishing fourth in the premier league being far preferable to an […]
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“It wasn’t until I got home and checked Ceefax that I realised we’d won it.“
I’ll be honest, this lockdown is slightly tedious, but given the whole of the 2019-20 season has now been expunged, we’re now undefeated in over a year and our last league game at home was a 6-0 win over Tivvy. Teams will need to treat us with the respect our undefeated streak deserves when football […]
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“Lovely guy. He pointed out the high rise flat where his mum had lived.”
As the lockdown continues and people find more curious ways to amuse themselves, we at TSOF have continued our tour through the archives and are pleased to confirm we shall be partaking in no fucking TikTok or lip syncing videos. Necking pints and baking bread remain open options at the time of writing. With the […]
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Don Roper: One of the most decorated Dorchester players you’ve probably never heard of.
Lockdown is impacting people in different ways. The increased spare time has seen some people take up new hobbies with a vast percentage of the population now artisan bakers with an excellent line in banana bread and sourdough with seemingly little else on the menu. There have been Mensa levels of IQ exhibited in the […]
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“Apparently the blokes that did it were Polish.”… “Where had they come from?”… “Poland”
One of my favourite films is The Rock, that’s the film with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage and not the WWF wrestler (I was always more of a Road Dogg fan myself). At one point in the film, Dr Stanley Goodspeed (Cage) and John Mason (Connery) are trapped inside the old cells of Alcatraz and […]
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“I’ll give you going down.”
We all make mistakes in life, and I can only apologise for the error I made in the last blog from the Beaconsfield game when I referred to that result as rock bottom. This was rock bottom. It was a 90 minutes with no positives as we lost 5-0, got what was at least our […]
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“I might know more about football, but I’m not beating you at poker.”
There is theory that many addicts can clearly remember when they ‘hit rock bottom’. Well 1700 on 04/01/2020 is hopefully the start of a recovery of some sorts as the preceding 90 minutes of football, and indeed the last few months have been steadily building towards this, a 3-1 defeat against the side that at […]
