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Happy Facebook Day
Well, I have to say, it was nice to receive so many Facebook messages yesterday wishing me a happy birthday. If you were one of the 54 who did so, thank you, birthdays and cards become less relevant as the years pass by so, to be reminded that I am now almost twenty years past my physical peak is obviously a nice thing. Also, which one has to say, is a great thing about Facebook, many of these warm hearted posts that featured the words ...
Poppy Fascism Draws to a Close
One thing that came to my attention last weekend was the need for Wigan Athletic winger, James McLean, almost being forced to write a letter to his chairman, Dave Whelan, to explain his reasons for not wearing a football shirt with a poppy embroidered on it. You can read his letter HERE McLean is from Derry, scene of the Bloody Sunday massacre. To display a poppy on a football shirt, in his very honest opinion, would be seen as disresp...
The FA Cup Comes to Basingstoke
Basingstoke became engulfed in FA Cup fever yesterday as a bumper crowd, braving quite hideous conditions, witnessed a hard fought and honest contest where the Dragons were perhaps unlucky not to get the job done at the first time of asking. As we arrived at the ground, the heavens opened so the club bar was an ideal place of refuge and it was in there where I saw so many faces of people I recognised; apparently isn’t just me fed up with ...
Ronaldinho Regrets Basingstoke Snub!
Former Brazil, Barcelona and Milan superstar, Ronaldinho, has admitted for the first time that he deeply regrets snubbing a move to Basingstoke Town earlier this year. Speaking from his palatial Buckskin residence, a gaunt and remorseful looking Ronaldinho described himself as feeling like Pete Best, the so called fifth Beatle who left the Liverpool popsters shortly before fame and fortune came their way. "I know how Pete Best must have ...
An Afternoon at Basingstoke Town!
There was a time when a professional football match at Reading was a place for oddballs. Everywhere you looked there would be harmless social inadequates, 40 year old men who still lived with their mum's and nicotine stained old boys who hadn't missed a game since they were six. Over the years as a new stadium was built, commercial avenues opened and with players starting to come from all over Europe and beyond, the necessity for the market...