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Last Updated: 19 March 2013

The Bury Bluster…

Right, we know how this one should go. After trashing a team very much in the hunt for an automatic bump up into the Championship, we take flight and head up north to a team for whom the Who’s Who Of League Two should already be back in the bookcase. …

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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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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 22

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 22: A disappointing couple of matches for the Boro’ have given the ALOOT team plenty to digest in this episode! Dean Thompson and Mark Hollis once again sit at the right (and left) hand of Pope Steve Watkins I. Meanwhile, Ken Jude is …

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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 21

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 21: A veritable case of Jekyll and Hyde for the ALOOT team to look into this week. Host Steve Watkins – Stevenage’s answer to Terry Wogan – is joined by Mark Hollis and the returning Deano Thompson, together with blogger extraordinaire Geoff Wode. …

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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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The Last Chance Saloon?

It is not often thought to be a good idea to take Borochat as a barometer of public opinion on the Lamex terraces, but it does lead us to believe there has been a alarming increase in the number of people unhappy with the current management team. There’s also the …

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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 20

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 20: With another loss for the Boro’, the Old Toffee team aren’t going to be short of items to talk about here. Host and veteran broadcaster Steve ‘Dimbleby’ Watkins is the man pulling rank on panellists Deano Thompson and Mark Hollis – together …

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Some Possible Discussion Topics?

BoroGuide and the A Load Of Old Toffee team always appreciate the time and effort that is put into contributing discussion points for each and every episode. Without your input, the podcast would be shaped by just four people and we don’t feel that’s particularly good. And sometimes we have …

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Oldham. Newham. Whatever.

Before we stuck into this preview, there is quite possibly a horsemeat-meets-old-ham joke to be had somewhere, but we lack the humorous edge and dexterity of wit so badly needed to execute the gag. Therefore, you can take this as an attempt to get it out of our system so …

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