Category Archives: Football games

Any game of football I attend…mostly Aldershot.

Lessons learned in London

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Gary

One of the universal truths that often surfaces is how the Brits love to queue. To be fair, they don’t actually ‘love’ it but they do understand how it works. They probably attribute it to ‘fair play’ and cricket. Of … Continue reading →

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Blog down, England up

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Gary

So today, at around lunchtime, this blog went down. I was given the instruction to rename my DNS nameservers. This is fine, I know how to do that. The only problem was that I was told to do this, to … Continue reading →

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Why the Spanish don’t sing

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Gary

Well, England has done it again. Made it all the way to a major final of an international football competition and lost. How is it possible? Why can’t they “bring it home“, as so many supporters cry? You have to … Continue reading →

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When minnows roar

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Gary

Yesterday, Lymington Town Football Club sat at the bottom of the Wessex Football League table on five points from 23 games. They had suffered through 20 losses and two draws since the beginning of the season. Their single victory was … Continue reading →

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Football fever

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Gary

Aldershot played Woking in today’s boxing day game. I took Max and Tom. I figured that Max would enjoy the real atmosphere of a non league game. To help with that, we stood on the East Bank. Apart from when … Continue reading →

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Pepparkakshus mission

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Gary

Today I had an unexpected walk across Trafalgar Square. The 139 bus I was on announced it was no longer going all the way to Waterloo. I don’t know why. While the bus was happy enough to tell us it … Continue reading →

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We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Gary

Today we once more met up with the best steward in the league. Her name was Karen and we last met her in Wrexham last season when she escorted us to a friendly pub and told the drinkers to be … Continue reading →

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It’s always sunny in Scunthorpe

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Gary

Following last Tuesday night’s appalling game at the Rec, we were hoping for better things from Aldershot Town Football Club today. They were playing Scunthorpe and we headed north to watch and, hopefully, support them. When the idea to travel … Continue reading →

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FSI bonanza

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Gary

This season’s Aldershot Town Football Club supporter’s shirt is a bit different. It’s covered in names. I think there’s something like 700 names on the shirts, which make them particularly hard to read. There’s a lot of squinted examination required. … Continue reading →

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Now that’s an improvement

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Gary

I was actually dreading tonight. Not in seeing Nicktor, obviously. I managed to finish reading Slab Life 3 and wanted to discuss it with him. As well as enjoying his company, of course. And going for a beer in the … Continue reading →

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