So the Hornchurch dream dies on a sad afternoon in deepest Essex. Whilst I have expressed my dislike of AFC Hornchurch before, I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest sympathies to those who knew and loved Harry Martin. It was truly a moving moment, especially the post minutes silence song, which [...]
And so, we move on. It’s slightly strange that four or five people all look forward to one occasion - and then you, the lucky reader, get to read four or five differing accounts of the same event. This might be where this blog falls down. Maybe we should assign ourselves roles for the afternoon. [...]
The Hornchurch wits do make me laugh at times, but no amount of student-taunting could save them from defeat at the hands of Team Bath, or spare us the agony of a turgid game. Bamos has already covered the moving tribute to Harry Martin, and I can’t improve on his sentiments – not least because [...]
And so, once more we reach the Monday morning aftermath of an FA Cup weekend. Later on today I shall write a proper blog entry about the experiences of the day and the game, but before I do, I have to write about my feelings of what happened before the game.
As we approached the front [...]
Man, FA Cup run blogs really do die a death in between games don’t they? It seems so long since we travelled to Hornchurch for the first time to watch them beating Dulwich Hamlet on that chilly and drunken Friday evening. God alone knows what it’ll be like from the First Round onwards, where we [...]
The draw has been made for the FA Cup Fourth Qualifying round, and AFC Hornchurch will be at home to Team Bath on Saturday, October 27th.
Lord alone knows what happens it it goes to a replay…
Ah, Essex. The county that launched a thousand jokes. Very few of them funny, some of them accurate, all of them easy. Like, apparently, the ladies of that fair county. See what I mean?
It was to the county of peroxide and stilettos that we ventured on Friday afternoon to continue this ridiculous quest upon [...]
I fucking hate Hornchurch. There, I’ve said it. I hope they get a really tough away draw and I get to see them get fucking stuffed.
And the final score is:
Hornchurch 2 - Dulwich Hamlet 1
As you can guess I wasn’t there but I’m sure one of the lads will do a proper match report soon. Meanwhile I’ll do a proper blog post now as I haven’t done one in a while and frankly I’m at home (Devon) and more then [...]
“This week sees us travel to AFC Hornchurch for the 3rd round qualifier in the FA Cup. They will obviously start as big favourites. It is a hard enough task but we are burdened with the fact that four of the starters from the game at Brentwood are cup tied. AFC Hornchurch have also been [...]
I put the lucky jacket in for a dry clean today, and it will be ready for the crunch game tomorrow.
I’m genuinely nervous. I mean, Hornchurch are actually half decent. Heres hoping for a FA Cup miracle. Now, has anyone got Roy Essandoh’s number? I hear he is looking for a team….
God bless the FA [...]
Thirty-six short little hours left. Two days at work. One sleep till Hornchurch, as a Christmas-obsessed small child might likely say.
My continual state of high excitement has been accentuated this week by reading ‘The Damned Utd’ by David Peace. Although nothing to do with either Dulwich or AFC Hornchurch (Brian Clough was an accomplished manager, [...]
The Chairman and Management Committee of Godalming Town are delighted to unveil Chuck Martini as the new First Team Manager.Chuck has previous professional playing experience under Martin O’Neill at Wycombe Wanderers and Leicester City. He has also played in America and represented Morocco at Youth and Under 21 level. More recently he has [...]
So far in this run, we’ve seen games on a Saturday, a Sunday and a Tuesday. We can now, thanks to some masterful scheduling, add a Friday night.
Yes, that’s right. AFC Hornchurch v Dulwich Hamlet has, because of some no-mark ‘international’ fixture that no-one really cares about taking place on Saturday at 3pm, been rescheduled [...]
Last time Dulwich faced Hornchurch at this stage of the FA Cup a few seasons ago they lost 9-0
