Mar

19

Achilles (Carol Ann Duffy)

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Achilles (for David Beckham) from today’s Daily Mirror Myth’s river- where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boyflowed on, his name on its lips. Without him, it was prophesised, they would not take Troy. Women hid him, concealed him in girls’ sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs… but when Odysseus came, [...]

Jun

21

So farewell then…

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Scarborough FC, the team who celebrated League survival by the North Sea by popping champagne corks only minutes before Jimmy Glass, Carlisle’s goalkeeper, scored the last minute winner near the Irish Sea that ended Scarborough’s 12-year tenure in the Football League, are no more. Scarborough welcomed

May

3

Exciting people

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Apparently, a current TV advert describes children as the most exciting people. In today’s Lancashire Evening Post that keen letter writer Nameand Address-Supplied of South Ribble writes about how these exciting people constantly annoyed residents during the Easter holidays with their football games. The letter concludes: Basically, if their entertainment is not provided electronically at [...]

Apr

29

Relegation

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Three years ago, Southend United finished 17th in Football League Division 3. The highlights of that season were an FA Cup 3rd Round replay away at the Theatre of Chips in Scarborough, with the promise of a lucrative fourth round tie against Chelsea for the winner.

Feb

20

Pardon my French…

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BBC SPORT | Man Utd fans in Lens crush scare A problem erupted 15 minutes into the match at Lens’ Stade Felix-Bollaert, with some fans being pushed against the 10-foot-high metal security fences. Fans reacted angrily, prompting riot police to fire tear gas into the stand. However, after two fans, one an elderly woman, were [...]

Feb

14

Superstitious fans

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On the shrimper group on Yahoo, Martin writes: It’s well documented that many players have superstitions that they follow before a game and it’s just the same for supporters. However this season has presented quite a problem in that, until recently, our results have not reflected the care with which I’ve been making my offerings [...]

Feb

5

“Death = football”

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BBC | Italian fans face stadium lockout: “In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper on Monday, Antonio Matarrese, the president of Italy’s Professional Football League Clubs association, said matches should be allowed to start again. ‘Deaths unfortunately form part of this huge movement which is football and which the forces of order are not always [...]

Nov

9

Oy! Reds!

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The only astonishing part of Freddy Eastwood‘s “wonder goal” / “lucky goal” / “fluke” in the Carling Cup fourth round tie is that he scored it against Manchester United. He scored a beauty for us in February. [One of many, I should add. It's just that I've not blogged about most of them.] He has [...]

Oct

19

The return of Stan the Man

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Stan Collymore has been posting on Shrimperzone again: As for some of the wilder remarks on the boards about me,i will give you one or two facts,firstly,my physical and mental condition are A1,and having worked closely recently with coaches who train and do conditioning work with olympic athletes,i pay rather more attention to what there [...]

Oct

9

Note to web support staff

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Folks, if you don’t want people to start losing their tempers with you, then please read the emails we send you. As previously mentioned on these pages, PremiumTV have started making life difficult for Mac users who wish to listen to the 16kbps radio commentaries online. The commentary does, in fact, work yet it gives [...]

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