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Canvey's an odd place, but compared with the Isle of Sheppey almost opposite, it's heaven on earth. Have never been to the "other club" on Canvey, Concord Rangers, but can only begin to imagine how windswept their ground must be, far more so than anywhere Canvey themselves played. It's in the...

So long, everyone, and thanks for all the good times. (Even if they have been far and few between recently).

It's sad what happened with Northwich V. Lost their ground and basically split into two. Always worth remembering a very long time ago that they were briefly a Football League team.

I still think of the time (a weekday evening game of course) Leigh RMI took precisely one away supporter to Dagenham.

True enough, and very to the point, but for the first time ever the council has recently gone Labour. I suspect Kleanthous (who frankly doesn't appear to be a man of sound judgements) naively thought this might make them less NIMBYish than the Tories.

Their chairman announced the aspiration of returning there, to a planned new ground pretty much next to where their old one was. However...within a couple of days the local council made clear that they'd oppose planning permission being granted to any such proposal, so I'd not bet on it happening.

Let us all think of the reconciliation and water under the bridge implied by the merger between two clubs, one of whose fans used to chant "We're Hayes, not Yeading, we're gonna kick your head in". As for Barnet, I just kinda wish they'd move back to Barnet, really. They truly are just a bus...

Frankly with a handful of exceptions from our ludicrously oversized overpaid undercapable and undermotivated squad, this song expresses the preferred option from those listed well...

Three up three down please, and while we're at it, incorporate the fifth tier into the EFL. Fundamentally the nature of what is now the National League has changed from what it was when it was founded in 1979 or when promotion and relegation to and from what is now the EFL in 1986 was...

For a dead rubber game played purely for pride, by both teams, that was entertaining, at times. Have to say the better team on the day won.

Honestly, no, I am more worried we will struggle next season. If Cotterill stays, and has real say over recruitment, there is some home of a mid-table finish I reckon. We really have to start anew, is the short version. What the last two years have proved is that we have a owner who likes to...

Congrats Stags, after a few years of knocking on the door, it's finally opened for you. Good luck up there, don't follow our example and you'll be fine.

I can't bring myself to go to the Notts game, it can only be a toxic atmosphere. It's not as if the sound of the south stand has not been "fuck Dale Vince" on previous occasions, anyway. Feel sorry for the few decent and committed players we have who didn't deserve to be caught up in a shitstorm...

A Millwall-supporting colleague from Bromley once told me that the club (along with Welling Utd, which if you know the towns of Welling and Bromley is maybe less surprising) had attracted to its fan base a fair number of people banned from EFL grounds across SE London (for all that such bans are...

I am so happy we have overtaken Salford in this table. That may be the only positive thing about this season, if it continues (and given our remaining away match is at Morecambe, perhaps it won't)