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Last Updated: 25 November 2021

Stevenage v Carlisle United: Go on, smile...

Go On, Smile – It’s Only Carlisle…

That’s right, crack a little smile there. After all, Stevenage Football Club did chalk up their first win on the road since the fall of the Roman Empire last week. Yeah, do it. Let it out. Are you familiar with the term “laughter is the best medicine”? We try to laugh several …

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Morecambe v Stevenage: Let's hope this one brings us sunshine...

Bring Us Sunshine. Please?

Let’s kick things off by going into a trance. You are feeling sleepy. Very sleepy. Now, it’s April 2016. The madness of Brexit, England getting knocked out the Euros by Iceland and Marmageddon just aren’t a thing. Gene Wilder still walks among us. And, oh lordy lord, the Maldives are still part of the …

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Stevenage v Plymouth Argyle: And now for something completely different...

And Now For Something Completely Different…

It’s one to tell the grandkids, at least. It’s perhaps even our generation’s own JFK moment; to be able to say where you were when Brighton U23s outdid Stevenage on pelanties in the Checkatrade kickabout. Now the future of the England team is all tickety-boo, however, we must return to League Two action. And it’s been a …

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Stevenage v Brighton & Hove Albion U23s: You can tell how we feel about this one...

Oh Right, This Again…

Ah, yes – pray silence for the glorious return of a competition that’s going to turn England into world-beaters and earn Shaun Harvey a knighthood. The Checkatrade Trophy is rearing its fugly head for the second time this season. And it pours a bucket of cold water over any hopes that, somehow, our 3-1 defeat at …

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Newport County v Stevenage: Can Boro' make it a happy 40th birthday?

Aging Like A Fine Wine…

Life begins at 40. And by the same token, it also begins on the wrong side of the Severn Bridge for Stevenage Football Club. The latest chapter in the life of this spiffing club is set to open, even if it’s a shame it has to open in Newport. What it is, however, is a …

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Cheltenham Town v Stevenage: Riding Through The Glens?

Robins’ Hood

After a dose of weekend woe, a chance to make it up midweek as Stevenage Football Club go westwards ho! to Cheltenham Town Football Club. For the newly arisen among us, “Chelters” came second in last season’s “Sides Promoted From Non-League That Make You Go Meh” contest. It wasn’t a close run thing …

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Stevenage v Exeter City: We're bringing Exeyback...

We’re Bringing Exeyback

Yes, that’s right – we’re bringing Exeyback and them other [RUDE WORD, plural] don’t know how to act. Last week’s 1-0 defeat at Wycombe Wandering Lonely As A Cloud saw Stevenage Football Club enter the new millennium of competitive fixtures played. If that was game number 2000 by our records, then Exeter City indoors …

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Wycombe Wanderers v Stevenage: Henning Wehn in the South Stand at the Lamex

All Quiet On The Westphalian Front?

Guten Tag unsere Freunde und Wilkommen, right? Henning Wehn – now there is a funny fecker if ever we saw one. And yet how many of you know of an unbreakable bond between the stand-up comic and Boro’s hosts this weekend? Oh yes, you are hearing us loudly, clearly and, er, rightly – though not for the obvious reason that both …

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Stevenage v Crawley Town: Better the Red Devils you know...

Better The Devils You Know?

It’s true. A week can be a long time in football and Stevenage went a long way to proving that last week. Let’s not focus on the defensive white flag we fluttered in bidding our farewell to August at Grimsby. No, we’ll bask in the lovely warm glow of what we hope is the beginning of Boro’s Indian Summer instead. …

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Stevenage v Hartlepool United: This is an Art Attack, but this is a Hart attack...

Hart Attack

August is over. Autumn is here. It’s nearly Christmas. And it’s now time for the League Two season to hit its stride in earnest. The campaign to date, from a Stevenage perspective, has been pretty forgettable. The end of the summer 2016 transfer window earlier this week means all the cards have been dealt …

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