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“Strange thing, my first season there we went on strike on New Years Eve.”
It was the lockdown we could all see coming, but Boris Johnson ignored the advice and warning signs. The Labour party knew it, independent SAGE knew it and anyone with common sense could see it. As soon as we beat Tiverton at home the country should have been locked down, but no. The PM…
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“The last person to be that immobile in Bristol was the statue of Edward Colston that ended up in the harbour.”
When it comes to simple to make meals, Coleman’s tuna pasta bake is in the top tier of filling yet easy food for the Voss family. Be in when we were children at school, something to make myself after a days work, or reheated as the next days working dinner, it is a flexible…
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“Where did Euro 92 take place, Phil?…..”Mexico”
Plus ça-fucking-change eh!? It seems hard to believe that it was over a year ago that I last attended a Dorch away game. A work trip back to the UK and I thought I’d bolt on a week-long holiday in Dorset to see the ‘rents and take in a Tuesday night jaunt down to…
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“Either that toilet is blocked or someone in here has a kidney infection.”
New Year’s Eve is, for me, the shittest night out of the year. On the face of it, it should be brilliant. Loads of people about, all the pubs open, Bank Holiday the next day and it is pretty much a free pass as everyone is expected to be hungover the next day. Yet…
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“We drew 2-2, got the mother of all bollockings, then a few beers later on the bus home, it turns out he’s off on holiday to Spain and misses the next game anyway!”
We’re now only a day away from the return of competitive football to The Avenue, so normal service with blogs covering depressing defeats in the arse end of London and how a sense of optimism can be crushed by 1515 will soon resume. But before that, we have one final lookback (for the time…
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“Are you kidding? He won’t fetch the curse out mumbling a few prayers.”
30 years. Three whole decades. 10,950 days. No, that’s not how long the last few seasons in the Southern League have felt, that is how long the Avenue Stadium has been the club’s home. Built at a cost of over £2 million with Prince Charles involved in the design process, we switched from the…
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“Crawley’s need is far greater than that of Barbados.”
In amongst half arsed games, in empty stadiums, with a VAR system that makes the standard of officiating in the Southern League look borderline competent, one thing has become abundantly clear; Danny Ings is quite good. Now this is something that will not come as any great surprise to Dorchester fans. We saw his…
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“He had a yard and a half arse, not many defenders were getting round him.”
After a few months of inactivity, football is most definitely back as the Twitter timeline is full of complaints about VAR and tweets from non league players running around cones in their back gardens and in parks to show others just how “buzzing” they are for the new season. We’ve even signed a few…