Quite right. I bought a ticket for our match at Stevenage but made a very late call to miss the match. Not only was there a risk that I might run into fuel problems myself but it also seemed a little selfish to make a wholly unnecessary 450 mile round trip and use fuel that could be put to...
Hartlepool United vs Northampton Town is one of the most home-biased fixtures on the calendar. Of all of the teams that we have met at least 30 times, our matches against the Cobblers have the highest % of home wins (68.6%) and the lowest % of away wins (8.9%). 46 of the 67 encounters have...
Some time on the pitch for the squad players, but my "shits given" cupboard remains bare. Won't be there, won't be listening, won't be checking the score.
Sounds like Challinor intends to use Tuesday's bollox cup match as an audition for the strikers who haven't played so much. He's pretty much said that Cullen, Goodwin, Cook, and Olomola will all play at least some of the match. If any of them does well they'll start against Northampton. He...
They're a sort of reverse Ipswich. There was a stat kicking about last week that Ipswich were the top home goalscorers in League One while simultaneously having the worst home record in League One. So lots of goals for little reward. Tranmere have clearly taken a different route.
Curiously, our away record is now the exact mirror of our home record
Home: 4-1-0 GD 7-2
Away: 0-1-4 GD 2-7
That's pretty unusual, only the 11th time we have had mirrored home/away records at any stage of the season, and 5 of the previous 10 were after just 2 matches. There was one...
I remember 2006/07 as if it were yesterday. We had an even worse start than you. We won just 5 of the first 17 game and headed into November in 17th. We then trailed at Accrington with 20 minutes left in our next fixture, and Danny Wilson was under real pressure from the fans. Then Stanley's...
Jarnail Singh's sons have followed in his footsteps. Sunny Gill is on the National League list as a ref with his younger brother Bhupinder running the line at Championship level.
To be fair, the Boston Utd of the 1970s was a very strong non-league outfit, champions of the NPL in 73, 74, 77 and 78, all before the formation of the APL/Conference. They never got even remotely close to getting elected to the League, with just two votes in total across six election...
It didn't help that the non-league scene lacked any clear hierarchical structure prior to 1980, so there was often no obvious non-league "champion". I think one of the seasons when we were up for re-election there were 18 non-league teams on the ballot paper. Once the Alliance Premier League...
Stevenage, ugh. We've got a seriously gruesome record against these. 8 defeats in our 11 previous encounters and just one win (in our last meeting, so things are looking up I suppose). I'm slightly confident, but I was more than slightly confident about Sutton and Oldham, and that didn't go...