Recent content by Essex2Wessex

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)

I will say the Wrexham fans - legitimate concerns about "where were they when they were shit" aside - are absolute class. Still singing and chanting en masse half an hour after the game ended. Our lot were class too, but apologies to all who heard it for the most tuneless rendition of God Save...

Preemptively, this has mostly looked like a game between teams two leagues apart

I certainly don't want footballing culture to go back to anything remotely like the bad old days of the 80s, etc, and the "sheepshagger" , and for that matter "dirty northern bastard" and "you live in a shithole" (especially when aimed at the Grimsby mascot) stuff is tedious and boorish in the...

Glaws pillow talk: "DV, why don't you destroy and humiliate the club bring the club to a greater future by splashing your hard-earned* on the likes of Troy Deeney - a natural leader of men - and Fankaty Dabo? With the likes of them around it will surely be a season to remember for all of Forest...

I'm sure no-one could reasonably accuse the monkey-hangers of being "just a bus stop in Chester", at least

As towns, Carlisle and Barrow are definitely upper tier among the places I've been to on awaydays (stayed overnight in both cases, obviously). Characterful grounds with character and towns with character too. And both vastly less grim than other towns with teams in and around this league. I just...

Almost worth coming down to the National League for - that really is looking very southern next year, even when most of the clubs being relegated (from it, as well as to it) are all pretty southern ..... Gateshead the odd man out by far

I think Grimby are pretty much safe. Next season I do fear for Swindon though, unless they get the off-pitch matters sorted.

I think it's pretty clear that Dale's head has been turned by the prospects for high ranking public sector employment once his quasi-mates in the Labour Party come to power, as one imagines they will in the months ahead. They propose forming a nationalized "clean energy" company, and no doubt...

We really don't deserve to stay up, and on this occasion the table does not lie. Grim but how it is.