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“Bunch of pricks”
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Like Eastleigh fans signing about Yaya and Kolo Toure on Boxing Day, or the strangely resilient appeal of Dave Allen, Weston-Super-Mare AFC is one of the enduring perplexities of modern non-league football. On the face of things they are a club whose ground only Poole could ever be envious of, and whose wage bill…
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What do you do when you live in one of the best cities in the world and have a free weekend before Christmas? Go to the theatre? Go shopping on the world famous Oxford Street? No. You go to the pub with other non-league losers and get absolutely cunted.
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“There was a shit on the toilet floor. That’s my type of anarchy”
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They say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. So in a week in which I have moved both house and job, I was left a little stressed at times, and asking all the usual questions. What if I don’t like the area? What if I don’t like…
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“Three points and a cup of tea”
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Celebrating a rare victory. (and Tom doing his ‘special’ face.) The day started off with the usual routine: Tom and Fred getting to the pub ridiculously early, Eames texting us asking where we were as we had forgotten to let him know the plans and me, stuck on a train 20 minutes late. Again.…
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“Bromley? Good Waitrose in Bromley… even does pigs cheeks!”
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Bromley. Fucking Bromley. No one actually enjoys going there do they?! Least of all the frankly quite strange residents who live there. Which perhaps goes some way to explaining why they are currently opposing plans to extend the Wimbledon tram link through the town – presumably in a desperate attempt to resist shortening their…
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“We’re skint as fuck, but we’re staying up”
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Maidenhead United away. It’s fair to say (and I think I speak on behalf of plenty other DTFC supporters) this is one of my favourite away days in non-league football. Let’s get to basics. The club has history, with their characteristic York Road stadium being the oldest continuously used football stadium in the world.…