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Many of us hoped it would never come but here is it. The second apocalypse has arrived, buckle in folks. The first signs of Apocalypse came on the Sunday the 12th when Tottenham’s game away at Brighton was called off due to an outbreak of it-that-must-not-be-named in the visitor’s squad. This was a bad signContinue reading “The Second Apocalypse”

There will be a change to today’s blog as a Covid outbreak in the Manchester United camp has led to their visit to Brentford being postponed until the new year. I hope to be able to make the re-arranged game, but in the meantime I thought I’d be left without a blog this week. HavingContinue reading “A Draw so Nice They Drew it Twice”

This week was my return to Yorkshire for the first time since I visited Huddersfield earlier in the season. This time my journeys with Brentford took me to the largest city in God’s county, Leeds, and I wish I hadn’t gone to this one. It looked so promising going back to a city I hadContinue reading “Busses and a Punch in the Gut”

Before I get on to Everton’s lacklustre preparation for the Merseyside derby in midweek I first wish to write a couple of paragraphs about my visit to my old local non-league team from when I was living in London. Wealdstone are the team in question and they are currently enjoying time in the highest leagueContinue reading “Everton Lose to a Bus Stop in Hounslow”

Back to normal after last week and time to see how one of the new managers gets on with their new club. For this game I took a 7 and a half hour round trip to the furthest northern reaches of the Premier League. I went to Newcastle to see St, James’ Park and toContinue reading “No Howe and No Hat-trick”

This week there is going to be a change to this blog. For a one-off edition I’m not going to discuss the match I went too this weekend as due to events earlier in the day I was not in the right headspace to be taking notes for this blog as I really needed aContinue reading “A Week of Changes”

Last weekend my exploration of Northern football stadia and the experience of the fans who use them took me to Crewe to experience The Mornflake Stadium of Crewe Alexandra, formerly known as Gresty Road. It was a trip I will only make once. I made it this time to experience the First round of theContinue reading “Why Alexandra?”

I took what was meant to be a 5 and a half hour round trip to Burnley this weekend to visit Turf Moor and take in what I thought would be an easy win for Brentford away at a team that hadn’t won all season. What I failed to take into account was just howContinue reading “Congratulations to Sean Dyche”

Ten days after my first visit to Prenton Park I was back there again, but this time it was for a Tranmere Rover’s Men’s game to see how the fan’s experience compares between Men’s and Women’s games at the same ground. Short answer to that is that the Men’s game was far more relaxing andContinue reading “Comparisons on the Wirral”

I took a trip to Huddersfield on Wednesday to visit the John Smith Stadium and for the quality of the football I really needn’t have bothered. Huddersfield’s stadium is one that I’ve wanted to visit for ages and the stadium itself was incredible. It’s just the football that let it all down.I started this gameContinue reading “A Wasted Evening in Freezing Yorkshire”