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 [...]
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 [...]
I am a frivilous fool. Quite often I find myself skint only a week after pay day. However, if anything was going to inspire me to save my hard earned cash, its Steve May. So on Tuesday, I put £30 in an envelop, scrawled ‘Hornchurch vs Dulwich’ on it and stuck it to my wall. [...]
So, away to Hornchurch in FAC3QR. While it will be good to get the first Saturday afternoon FA Cup away trip in (Tuesday night in Deal was less a trip, more a punishment sent from a laughing God at the stupid idea that we can make this run last longer than the First Round), I [...]
The knee. Oh the knee. Twisted whilst playing football at truck, it had laid me up for a week. But by God it was not going to ruin the FA cup. Oh no.
My FA cup run actually began on friday afternoon in Carnaby Street. Drenched from a typical late september downpour, I headed into Muji [...]
Playing an FA Cup game on a Sunday is a terrible idea. A terrible, terrible idea. I am in so much pain right now I can’t even begin to quantify it. Although probably not as much as Joe ‘i’ll just drunkenly fall backwards through this gate and into someone’s front garden, if you don’t mind…’ [...]
Right, so the match has moved has it? Well I didn’t want to be the fool who turned up n Dulwich this Saturday all alone and with only the locals for company, I think I would have done a little cry.
I’ll be excited about this game in approximately 10 hours as I’ll have watched my [...]
