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 Goodspeed asks the old lag Mason; “How did you do it?” Mason’s response; “Uh, nurtured the hope that there was hope. Modest hope, but, uh, they kept a man alive.” Well it’s the modest hope of maybe seeing us even draw let alone win a…

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 7th red card of the season, failed to have a shot on target, kept us rooted to the bottom of the league, and on top of all that, there was no Bovril. We were a distant third best in a two horse race and our…

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 the start of play was bottom of the league having scored only 15 goals in 20 games. Our makeshift side worked hard but were comfortably second best and it is now us who occupy bottom of the league with the staggeringly depressing record of; P…

The saying goes that “it’s a funny old game”, but it’s been fuck all fun being a Dorch fan for quite a while now. After staying up last season and a early flurry of transfer activity in pre-season, there was a cautious sense of optimism that this season just might be different. Fast forward a few months and we’re stuck in a relegation battle, are points adrift of those around us with those same teams having games in hand on us, we’re without a manager, have seen 3 of our contracted players leave by mutual consent, home attendances are on…

Photo credit; Phill Standfield Staines away sounds like a budget supermarket detergent, not a good way to spend a cold Tuesday night. But given a recent upturn in form and its close proximity to me, it seemed a decent opportunity to see if we had indeed turned the proverbial corner. Staines is a ground I’ve been to before, way back in the halcyon days of the Conference South in 2009. All for a early season 3-0 loss with a side that included starts for magpies heroes, Tom Mitchell and Ryan Northmore. Also on the minibus trip there, Floydy was sick out of the…

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well, welcome to the gift that keeps on giving, the apparent insanity that is watching Dorchester Town FC away from home. Given we’re a club that has won 6 games in total on the road in the last two seasons, an away win at promoted Wimborne last week was as surprising after the home shambles vs The Met as it was welcome as got our first points of the season. The drawback? It gave us the dreaded sense of optimism…

Midweek games are the saviour of the working man/woman. A way of breaking up the working grind and giving an opportunity to moan about different things. Although moaning is something that has been oddly absent in recent weeks. Vastly improved performances and results with largely the same squad that looked so poor under Laird, have seen a more positive air around the club and the short trip to the commuter town of Kings Langley gave us a good opportunity to build on what has been an encouraging start under Thommo. It is a short 25 minute or so journey from…

The logic of a football fan is often very illogical. For example, given we’ve lost 5 from 6 and have a goal difference of -20, why would I want to spend my afternoon in bloody Dunstable of all places? Well I’m not known for my sanity and it turned out to be a worthwhile trip as we had the rarities of not only a clean sheet, but also a win. Even if we did have to go to Dunstable to see it. I shall make two things abundantly clear; Dunstable is a shithole and the football team are in a…