• “Short corner, where’s that got us?”

    It has been a depressing few weeks following Dorch. Winless in 10 games, into the relegation places, performances abject, results worse. There were plans to have blogs on the Poole, Beaconsfield and Hayes games, but the adage of if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all combined with utter…

  • “We don’t get twatted as often, which is the most Dorch metric of improvement possible.”

    After the disappointment of the Poole Christmas Bank Holiday game, waking up on New Years Day that feeling that some may describe as stupidity came over me once again and I decided to make the trip down the M5 in the hope we might start the year in a better fashion than we ended…

  • “There was no intent to hurt him. But I’ve absolutely folded him in half.”

    As another strange festive period comes, the usual wish for three points on Boxing Day will once again go unanswered, albeit it as we’re playing on the 27th and not the 26th this year. Christmas cheer has been in somewhat short supply over the last few seasons, but we’ve had some better luck in…

  • “Why has he got a condom on his head?”

    Well, alright lads? Guten Tag! What a difference a week makes. After a disappointing loss to Swindon and a point having surrendered a 1-0 lead at Merthyr last Tuesday, the next two games against Kings Langley and Wimborne, both at home, were vital if we were to get points on the board and start…

  • “I’m at a stage in my life where I won’t settle for anything less than Yorkshire Gold.”

    In the same way that you can wait for ages for a bus before two then turn up at the same time, having waited almost three years to see a Dorch win, I’ve now seen two inside the space of about a month. My immediate post night shift return from London to Dorchester was…

  • “This has got one nil to Swindon written all over it.”

    One of the more overused cliches you’ll come across is that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. This was not lost on me as I traveled across London via bus and tube as my outbound journey to Swindon begun on Saturday morning. My…

  • “You haven’t seen us win in how long?”

    As the cliché goes, a week is a long time in football. And much had happened at Dorch over the previous seven days prior to Tuesday’s game against Hartley Wintney. Equally, 1,043 days is also a long time and that is how long had elapsed since I last saw Dorch win. December 11th 2018…

  • It’s the hope that kills you.

    Well. It’s been a while since i’ve done one of these. Mostly down to the lack of live football i’ve watched over the past 18 months. Largely the fact that we’ve been in a global pandemic. Which for Dorchester fans (may i reiterate, purely from a football perspective) had probably been the least negative…