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Men United

Prostate Cancer UK – as you might or might not already be aware – is currently the Official Charity Partner of the Football League. The organisation’s main purpose is to ensure more men survive prostate cancer and enjoy a better quality of life. With prostate cancer still the cause of …

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Goodbye, Mark Roberts

The departure of our Captain has been on the cards for 18 months but that doesn’t make seeing him go any easier to take. What is there left to say about Mark Roberts that hasn’t been said a thousand times over? Nothing, probably. But it’s worth saying it nonetheless. Robbo …

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All Over Bar The Shouting

There she goes. Leaving on the 16.42 from Waterloo for the evening White Star steamer to the New World. It has been an emotional, enthralling few months where moments of utter joy had been entwined in frustration and, at times, despair. But now she is leaving your life for the …

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Catching Up: Portsmouth (A)

We know what it must seem like to you. Yes, it has taken us four days to produce our thesis on the goalless draw at Fratton Park, but we have been busy with other things. Honest guv, honest! It is mainly because we realised that ALOOT might need some new …

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Tranmere: A Retrospective

Right then, did the 3-1 scoreline really tell the full story of our Tranmere adventure on Sunday? For us, we have to disagree with Ronnie Moore’s assertion that the home side “deserved” the victory. Now, we’re obviously going to a little biased here but were they even the better side …

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St Hattrick’s Day

If we’re being honest, we didn’t see that coming. After starting a post-mortem of Ireland’s latest attempt to play that egg chasing malarkey with less than the proper number of men on the field, the texts and tweets started rolling in. “Dani Lopez has scored again” – that is one …

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What Became Of The Likely Lads

Please don’t get us wrong, See we’ll forgive you with a song we’ll call the Likely Lads. But if it’s left to you, We know exactly what you’d do with all the dreams we had… ‘Cause blood runs thicker, Oh, we’re big-strong-and-physical, you know; If it’s important to you, it’s …

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Blipzkrieg Bop

So, was the win against Brentford just a blip in that otherwise ongoing run of bad form? If we look back over the two League One performances since, the first half at Preston North End was just a complete non-event and we can no longer find the goal again. It …

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Press On

“Now that’s how you supposed to drive! From now on, that’s how you drive!” – We feel it is important that Mike Lowrey (Will Smith’s character from the seminal 1995 police fillum Bad Boys) makes a point about Tuesday’s victory against Brentford. It must be regarded as a watershed; the …

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On Brentford

Sometimes it feels as if you’re in a group of people standing close to a rather large hole and your only saving grace is that there are a few more in front of you. Of course, things as they stand mean that we’re a good foot from the edge of …

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