Did He Really Mean It?

Turns out I have two tickets instead of the advertised one. Turned out nice again, hasn’t it?

Chaps,
 I have just spoken to the Port Vale ticket Office, and this is the situation…
Chasetown have only sold 2,000 of their 4,5000 allocation
Port Vale fans/us can pay on the turnstile to get in. There is absoloutely no danger of this selling out.
Congratulations to Bamos for winning the ticket. His round first on sunday!

So, the other day I took it upon myself, being the lefty-liberal Guardian-reading, London-bubble living individual that I am, to sign up on the FA’s FA Cup/carbon footprint website, www.carbonfootyprint.com. I have to confess I did this because I thought that they should know about the run that we’re undertaking.
Unfortunately, upon signing up I realised that [...]

Being back at work after a long weekend is a thoroughly depressing situation, isn’t it? I’ve always been one to look on the positives of most situations - and I get vexed at those who constantly moan at things that everyone else is experiencing (seriously, when it’s cold, you know we’re all cold, right? When [...]

‘I’ve only ever broken a bed jumping up and down on it, never through sex or owt’
‘Oh, I have broken one whilst having sex’
‘Well….you are a big unit’
‘Yeah, and she wasn’t the lightest either’
And so the run continued into Bath. (’Barth’ for us southeners, ‘Baff’ for the northern element) And from the moment we stepped [...]

“Can I just express my admiration for this whole venture. I mean, football is wack and all, but you’re all doing something pretty interesting and I applaud it”
C J Alcock, 14.39, 13/11/07
I like it when people who aren’t really interested become interested. It makes the whole thing somehow more…worthwhile.

The truly, truly glorious thing about this whole adventure isn’t the exploration of new places. It isn’t the feeling you get when the underdog scores, or when a last minute Dulwich Hamlet winner flies in. It certainly isn’t the high class standard of football that we’ve seen so far.
It’s the cementing of friendships, the forming [...]

The link above takes you to a video of me being great at pool. And Rich being really, really shit.
Right, onemanupship out of the way now lets all huddle around as I tell you a tale about 7 men and a Team Bath.
The day started off well until I hit the ticket office at Paddington, lets [...]

I think its an ace draw. I’m proper excited already. we’re all off to the sunny Midlands! Robbie Williams! Your boys are going to take one hell of a beating!

So yesterday we ventured to the South West for the first round proper of the FA Cup, and it was my first FA Cup match for over a month having missed the last round. As such I didn’t know what to expect from Team Bath from the encounter with Hornchurch, and knew little about either [...]

And so, we enter the final week. Two non-league teams prepare to meet each other in the First Round Proper of the FA Cup. Either side, potentially, only 180 minutes away from drawing a top-flight side. Either side only 90 minutes away from a tie against names such as Nottingham Forest or Leeds United and [...]