The View from the Bar
Lots to write about today, best crack on... Firstly, what an amazing day last Saturday! In 35+ years supporting Cowes there’s been plenty of memorable occasions, but the Portchester match is right up…
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I could have started writing this page about eight hours ago, when I hadn’t already been up for twenty-seven hours having done a night shift last night, but hey, why do something early…
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There’s a lot going on in the world right now. Across Europe, millions are wondering what on earth is going on in the UK and whether we’ll be cutting ourselves adrift from the…
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Right, it’s now official, I am some kind of negative soothsayer. Don’t doubt it, the evidence is irrefutable. Two weeks back on this page I bemoaned the tribulations of following a game via…
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I think I may have cursed myself on this page last week when I wrote (on Friday) bemoaning the terrors of following a match via the updates on Facebook. Twenty-four hours later and…
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I don’t get to many away games these days, unfortunately, but over a period of twenty-five years or so I trawled all over the south of England (and occasionally further afield) watching Cowes,…
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Well, it’s another one of those ‘don’t know if it’ll get used because the weather’s looking a bit dicey’ columns, but, for good or for ill, here’s the latest ramblings that might just…
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Well, the season starts (again) here, I reckon. We’ve got twelve league games to go – eight of them at home – and going by the last twenty seasons or so, five wins…
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Happy New Year! Here we are then – 2019 is upon us and, to all intents and purposes, the season starts here. There’s some massive games coming up, not least the back-to-back matches…
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Welcome to the vast, vague hinterland between Christmas and New Year, where the only way of actually figuring out what day it is is by seeing if there’s a football match on. So,…