Five Minutes of Your Time, Please; Alan Fogarty
Five Minutes of Your Time is a series of interviews with people from different areas and eras within the game. This one features Alan Fogarty, former Wealdstone FC Manager who worked with Dave Bassett...
View ArticleTouring with The Stones; Piiigs In Goooaaal
Wealdstone v Enfield conjours up memories of some great battles on and off the field (some of which, you had to be there). The yellow van, notorious for disgorging a seemingly endless stream of Stones...
View ArticleWell, you know Robbie…Shebby Singh does 606
Donning pipes and smoking jackets, quaffing champagne and exchanging pleasantries, at least in my imagination, Blackburn Rovers “Global Advisor” Shebby Singh took to the BBC’s 606 airwaves, declaring...
View ArticleTouring With The Stones; Three Wheels on my Wagon
The feasting festive period of Christmas and the New Year in which seasons are often thought to be decided. Four games in such a short space of time – and therefore twelve points available which can...
View ArticleTouring with The Stones; Forward Pass
If football matches lasted an hour, a hundred and twenty-odd Stones fans would have left Kingsmeadow (no Cherry Red Records when the Hoops are at home) pleased with the build up, moderately happy with...
View ArticleTouring With The Stones; What Goes Around….
Fat Ship stabilizers are fins mounted beneath the waterline and emerging laterally. In contemporary vessels, they may be gyroscopically controlled rotating active fins, which have the capacity to...
View ArticleFive Minutes of Your Time Please; Robin Tucker
Five Minutes of Your Time, Please is a series of interviews with people from different areas and eras within the game. This one features Robin Tucker, former Wealdstone centre-half and captain, still...
View ArticleTouring With The Stones; Back In The High Life Again
Touring with the Stones is back after a brief hiatus. To catch up on the missing weeks, please visit the Wealdstone FC forum.There is no rule that restricts the number of season defining weekends in...
View ArticleWho will be Relegated from the Premier League?
It’s February and the business end of the season is upon us. The title race, pretty much decided by most accounts other than Roberto Mancini’s (and, even then…) promises to be a damp squib and the...
View ArticleIs the Arsenal Takeover Bid too Good to be True?
The headlines are fairly eye-catching – a £1.5bn bid for full control of the club, reduced ticket prices, a huge pot of transfer cash, efforts to improve the atmosphere…for the fans it no doubt sounds...
View ArticleTouring With The Stones; Battleground
Not just a season defining weekend (part XI), but eight days that could have killed off Stones chances of the title and put a serious dent in the play-off hopes too .The start of a run of eight away...
View ArticleFive Minutes of Your Time, Please; Barry Nevill
Five Minutes of Your Time is a series of interviews with people from different areas and eras within the game. This one features Barry Nevill, a former Wealdstone player and manager, now a successful...
View ArticleTouring With The Stones: Going Techno
Back in the nineteen’s, for the most part if you missed a match you’d catch up with the results on TV or the radio, or in a Pink ‘un or, at amateur or subsequently non-league level, you might have to...
View ArticleMatch Fixing a Greater Threat to Football than any Super League Plan
While the world and its blogger were getting hot under the collar this week about satirical articles on French football websites, men in Qatar with ties who don’t know anything and a man who probably...
View ArticleTouring with The Stones; How Does It Feel?
So after Stones had climbed a Mountain yet come down a hill with a point from Whit£hawk, the heights of the Ryman league title challenge became the lows of the relegation dogfight on Wednesday with a...
View ArticleAgainst Modern Football? Try the Union Movement
There is a growing force called Stand Against Modern Football (@standamf). The campaign team even produce a fanzine, that marvellous mag that – before the internet age – used to be the only place fans...
View ArticleGloucester City’s Flood Defence Saga Threatens Finances
For Gloucester City, it’s been a long five years. Most clubs in the UK forced out of their homes can point the finger of blame at unscrupulous owners or landlords – the Tigers can blame the weather...
View ArticleSan Marino Suffer England’s Arrogance
To paraphrase a line from Twitter, England finally win a match comfortably only for people to complain that the game even took place at all. Yes, England beat San Marino 8-0 (or “Only San Marino” as...
View ArticleSouthend United Sack Their Manager…More or Less
In two week’s time, Southend United will take the field at Wembley to contest the final of the John Player Trophy. Leading the team out will be manager Paul Sturrock, the former Plymouth, Southampton,...
View ArticleThe Coventry City Crisis: a Background
Coventry City’s growing crisis erupted last week with the owners of the Ricoh Arena, Arena Coventry Ltd, running out of patience with the club’s owners, SISU, over their continuing refusal to pay rent...
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