And our new signing is…
… Lee Minshull of Tonbridge Angels. I expect your initial reaction was a bit like mine, namely a sense of underwhelment. I know that there had been murmurings of a new signing, and the noises coming out of AFCW was that there are more and more players becoming available to us. TB himself has gone [...]
Read moreNot Plain Sailing
Just when you thought that SW19 was going to fill up the summer months with stretched-out diatribes about pre-season friendlies and transfer rumour mills, comes a bit of proper news. Salisbury City have been kicked out of the Conference. OK, it’s in the hands of their lawyers, but basically they’re supposed to settle all their [...]
Read moreWoking back to happiness
SW19′s Close Season Syndrome has been further aggrevated by more PSF news. Yesterday, the mystery Prem side was Arsenal, and today, the identity of the game on the 24th has been revealed. Step forward, Woking. Now, this was the sort of fixture a couple of years ago that we would have considered the biggie if [...]
Read moreAFC v AFC
Another day, another PSF announced. And the identity of the mysterious Premier League club is…. Arsenal. Yes, the Arsenal. Well, a Gooner XI anyway, because the “proper” team is playing Legia in Warsaw at the same time. So no Arsene Wenger, or Cesc Fabregas, or William Gallas for people to point at. Though given his [...]
Read moreJolley boating weather
Just in case you need reminding… Funny how long ago it was, and yet only seems like yesterday. About 10 months previously, we’d got rid of a fair amount of players (Winterburn and Gage, to name but two), which of course led to a few raised eyebrows. Was that iconic first season in the top [...]
Read moreQuestion Time
UPDATED: all four people I asked have now responded Last Christmas, I invited a selection of SW19 contributors to give their thoughts on the season so far. You can check it out here. Anyway, last week I got Jim “Jampot” Potter, Greg “Ewell Don” Valentine, Richard “911″ Brown and Jay “Baskers” Baskaran back around the [...]
Read moreGroundhopping
So, with just Oxford and York to slug it out between them next weekend, we now know who’s going to give us a miserable Saturday be our opponents next season. We know about Darlington, Newport and Southport, and as of 4pm today we get to return to Barf City and go up North again to [...]
Read moreMelbourne Storm
The problem with this stage of the year is that if you’ve managed to become champions, or indeed if you’ve descended into mid-table mediocrity, you end up with the Saturday I’ve just had. Namely, I decided to remind myself of AFCW past and go to Chelmsford against Barf City in the BSS playoff. I’ve got [...]
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