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“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 was […]
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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 it’s […]
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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 waited […]
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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 dish […]
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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 Truro […]
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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 it […]
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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 being…) […]
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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 old […]
