Grimson Tide

Last Updated: 28 April 2020

Stevenage v Grimsby Town: Can Boro' avenge their five-goal thrashing earlier this season?

Grimson Tide

We’re almost there. Out of the post-Christmas gloom that is January. The weather might still be a bit rubbish, but at least there is cash to splash once again. Well, that is unless you haven’t been waiting six long weeks for the latest pay check to bounce land in the bank account. Here at …

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Hartlepool United v Stevenage: The way that your hart beats?

Hartbeat

It’s now a week since Stevenage Football Club made the long trek south west for League Two duties. In an almost-perfect example of symmetry (but not advance planning), this week the long trek north east. Boro’s Megabus loyalty points are racking up nicely as we go from pole to pole in the space of …

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Plymouth Argyle v Stevenage: Going Out On A P-Limb?

Going Out On A Plym…

Here we all are now then, all the lads and lasses. It’s high time that we were rewarded for being super troopers during this week’s snowmageddon – and here it is. Our latest football fix takes us down to the rather optimistically-named English Riviera, and to a place known as Plymouth. If you have …

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Stevenage v Newport County: County Hunters?

County Hunters

In the end, it didn’t turn out to be that much of a merry Christmas. Nor has it been a happy new year – so far, at least. Stevenage Football Club have a fine chance to take a big ol’ spanner to those misfiring works this week, however. And, with it, comes …

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FA Cup Giant Killers: How do Stevenage compare?

FA Cup Giant Killers: Boro’ Compared To The Rest…

It doesn’t concern us this season, but the FA Cup Third Round takes place this weekend. You know the drill now, too. It’s when all those plucky lower-leaguers look to bruise the egos of the rich and famous. Plimmuff go to Liverpool, Arsenal to Preston and Posh to Chelsea are some …

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Stevenage v Colchester United: Subterranean Home Form Blues

Subterranean Home Form Blues

…and so the wait goes on. It’s over three-and-a-half months since Stevenage Football Club last won a League Two match indoors. Christmas, it seems for Cambridge United, is not a time for giving. The U’s took their chances where we did not. In doing so, it ended their even longer …

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Stevenage v Cambridge United: Have We Got U's For You

Have We Got U’s For You

Ho, ho, fakin’ ho – glad tidings, season’s greetings and whatever else you might want off us this Christmas. As long as it’s under a fiver, mind. Now we’ve hit upon the right festive note to begin, let’s do just that. Begin. And we start with the news that it’s the first …

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Barnet v Stevenage: A visual spectacle?

Bees Bees, See?

Barnet on the road, then. It used to be such a simple trip – a hop down the A1 or a short train ride to New Barnet. No more, however. Not since the Bees canned Underhill. The Hive, as most of us will know, is neither in Barnet and nor is …

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Stevenage v Blackpool: The 8th-place derby

Whiskey Tangerine Foxtrot

For some, we’d bet the title of this preview seems almost like the perfect weekend soiree – albeit in reverse. It is a brave man who takes a wee dram, before ballroom dancing his way around the beer garden at Old Town Wetherspoons. But, dearly beloved, we have gathered here to run the rule over something momentous. Not once in …

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Newport County v Stevenage: Let's try this one again...

It’s Newport, Take Two…

OK, let’s try this one again then – shall we? Just over two months since we last rocked up to Dave Parade, the weather is looking as if it might play ball this time. At least, we’d hope so. We’d rather not have to fork out another £6.60 to cross the Bridge for …

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