It is rather lovely to have an real ale bouzer almost on one’s doorstep, especially one as nice as the Oakdale. It’s a good size pub, with two big rooms, so I’ve never really felt crowded in there, although at the beer festival a c[…]

worst. election. ever. and for once, i can’t think of a reason for disagreeing with them, although refering to Howard as “smoothie” rather than “scary n@zi twonkface” is a little remiss.
also i wonder how much kettle/pot[…]

Bah, Stevenage and Aldershot both got late second goals as well, so we finish in the worst place (excluding relegation places obv), sixth, another year of conference…[…]

come on scarborough, come on leigh, do it for us, one of you…
(lee philips scored the second, he’s new, don’t really know much about him)[…]

COME ON! Stevie Flack (he used to be a boxer/bricklayer you know) puts city ahead 6 mins into the second half, cos i know we’ll score agan some sunny day![…]

OK, pretty dull first half although City seem to be having the best of it. I’m listening to BBC Radio Cumbria and their wonderfully pro-Carlisle presenters, who are currently wishing happy birthday to a chap in Cambridge listening on-line and t[…]

Today is the last day of the season in the Nationwide Conference. For the uninitiated among you (overseas viewers, man u fans etc) the Conference is the fifth tier of English football and the highest where some of the players are still part-time (al[…]

i think we can safely say that Gorgeous George and his friends have no [ahem] Respect for how to do a proper graph, as can be seen from this graph below:

OK, so they may have got 15% in these four wards, but the graph appears to be somewhat incomple[…]

Arsenal Ladies v Djurg’rden/’lvsj’, UEFA Women’s Cup, Boreham(space)wood FC
There were a whole world of firsts for me at Boreham(space)wood* on Friday, here they are in some sort of numerical order:
1. First women’s foot[…]

I don’t know if you’ve been watching newsnight over the past couple of weeks, but there has been intense controversy about them replacing the daily round-up of the markets (which always seemed like a haiku version of the shipping forecast[…]