So bored in fact that I’ll wish the FA Cup Run Team and everyone else who reads this blog a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!
God knows we will need some luck in the new year to get tickets to future games, roll on the 5th of January!
In response to Bamos’ last post, I couldn’t have put it better myself big guy. My dad was shouting up to me from outside the shop last night, screaming, ‘your team have scored’. My initial reaction was, ‘I’ll never be able to get a ticket for Cardiff.’ I sat down on my bed, and to [...]
Incredible game Jeff! They’ve done it! Unbelievable stuff!
Jeff: Indeed they have, thanks Chris. The plucky part-timers of Chasetown have put out League One side Port Vale, and now face a home tie against former winners Cardiff City. The players, by day postmen, electricians, van drivers and lawyers, will be up against Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink, Robbie Fowler [...]
Eve Olivia Power (West Midlands) wrote at 8:30pm yesterday:
hello its eve from the train lol how are you?
Amazing. Anyways, where was I?! Ah, the trip to Vale Park. Our cab driver (recommended by our Italian friends no less) was useless, and barely knew where Burslem was, let alone the ground itself. Arriving just as [...]
When you have a weekend of this magnitude, its hard to know where to start. I guess the sunday morning would be the best place. Myself and Brooner were up far too early for two men who had been in Preston’s Premier electro club the previous night, and the thought of a rail replacement bus [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
