Pre-Match

Last Updated: 02 April 2015

Monty Python's Life Of Brian

Good Fribrations: Tranmere Rovers Indoors

You don’t need to be a Believer to know that Friday equals “good”. All Fridays usually are – because it’s the one period of time that stands between you and the weekend. This one, however, also means a day off in these here erstwhile isles of ours, which means it’s …

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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

Going For A Burton

Ouch! We’re not sure what’s more painful – somehow letting the Daggers walk off with all three points or seeing your skipper providing (quite literally) a finger buffet for someone who didn’t have his halftime orange. Or his morning Weetabix. Neither were quite what we were expecting from last weekend’s action at the Lamex, …

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Pete and Dud - The Dagenham Dialogues

Dagenham And Redbridge And That…

This “seventh heaven” concept is a strange one to us. After all, what’s so wrong with the first, second and – cor blimey – even the third versions of the afterlife that you’d want to sack off the first six and head for the door marked “seven”? Well, it seems to …

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Vyvyan, The Young Ones

The Exe Pistols

A last-gasp goal at Cambridge. We’ve heard that one before, though it wasn’t exactly fatal this time around; Boro’ coming away from the R Whites Lemonade Stadium with a point at the weekend rather than nothing, though it should have been all three and that’s what had us all annoyed on …

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Angelos Epithemiou

Cambridge United: The Yin and the Yang

Ah yes, Cambridge United – it’s getting to that point where we’ve met them more times than we care to remember, though it’s fair to say we have more cause to recall the most recent encounters given that we’ve won five of the last six games against our cousins from the other …

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Nick Hewer, Countdown

County Downing

Now then, wasn’t it deeply satisfying to grab the win late on against Plymouth indoors? Not only did we put them to the sword with a bang on display of counter attacking football, but we’ve gone and rubbed John Sheridan up the wrong way again – that’s worth three points in itself …

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Dad's Armyy

The Chairboys

If you’re reading this, there’s a very strong chance that it’s Friday and you’re at least halfway to being freed from the burden of paid employment for another two days; three if you’re somewhat liberal with your application of your annual leave entitlement. But that ain’t our business – the prospect …

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Dennis Taylor 1985

South by Southend

It’s ruddy nice to go to someone else’s place and mess up the furniture, especially when Ronnie Moore is involved. And that’s what we got with our Valentine’s Day delight up at Hartlepool United. It was probably appropriate – or maybe not – that 14 February was the day we …

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Carry On Nurse, Charles Hawtrey

Carry On Physio – the definitive-ish Hartlepool preview

Have you been injured in an accident at work that wasn’t your fault? It won’t surprise us if Graham Westley has spent the whole week on the blower to Ambulance Chasers 4U making some claims on behalf of them guys who have transformed Paul Dando’s physio room from an oasis of tranquility (probably) into the most …

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Vic Reeves, Boogie Woogie

Shakers: Prattle And Roll

From six games unbeaten to three defeats on the spin – well, that escalated quickly… didn’t it? It looks like having a small squad has given us a few headaches, what with 137 players now on Paul Dando’s treatment table. Yep, we’re now just two knocks away from replacing the …

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