I really enjoyed my visit to Gillingham last year. It had a micropub, a cat, a quest and dinosaurs. Who...
Year: 2020
John Pearman, editor of Liverpool fanzine 'Red All Over The Land' fondly remembers awaydays at Blackpool in the 1960s... When...
Great as it is to be able to watch Blackpool again, televised football simply isn't the same as being there....
Plymouth away. The first game of the new season. The first awayday in six months. Right at the other end...
Ian De Lar from Plymouth website www.pasoti.co.uk (Plymouth Argyle Supporters On The Internet) has been in touch this week with...
I'm getting quite comfortable with this watching from home lark now. I've been surprised at how easily I've adapted to...
Dear reader, we lost 7-2. There’s only one thing for it: a virtual pub crawl of Liverpool. Now I’ve done...
Non league football is back! Last weekend I was thrilled - but also totally envious - to see fans up...
Home game. Away game. It makes no difference these days. Our pre-match routine is the same: lie in, relaxing morning,...
This week I have been reading View, a football magazine that had been recommended to me by the brilliant blogger...
Dear reader, I've been promising you a Blackpool pub review (actual, not virtual) for a while, so it's time for...
Dear reader, we have arrived! The Pool Are Going Up There has clearly been much going on behind the scenes...
This week I have read Barcelona to Buckie Thistle: Exploring Football’s Roads Less Travelled by Mat Guy. The author tells...
Well this was certainly a matchday like no other. Lee and I headed down to Bloomfield Road an hour before...
After five months without football, the fixtures are coming thick and fast. Blackpool's pre-season schedule has been announced - and...
This week I have read Six Added Minutes by Johnnie Lowery. The author is a young fan of Sutton United...
It’s been a funny old close season. Frankly I was glad to see the back of 2019/20, which actually seemed...
This week I have read The Boy on the Shed by Paul Ferris. This is a heartfelt and heartbreaking memoir...
This week I have been reading Escapismo magazine, edited by James Gamlin. This is a new bi-annual publication with the...
This week I have been reading One Football No Nets by Justin Walley. This is the story of a man...
This week I have been reading The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss. This is the story of...
Welcome to the sixth episode in my series of football book reviews. I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You...
Welcome to the fifth episode in my series of football book reviews. This week we step into the world of...
Welcome to the fourth episode in my new series of football book reviews. This week we step into the world...
Welcome to the third episode in my new series of football book reviews. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters had me smiling...
Welcome to the second episode in my new series of football book reviews. This week I continue my focus on...
Finally, on 9th June, the EFL clubs have voted for the curtailment of the League One 2019/20 season. Quite frankly,...
Dear reader, welcome to my new series of football book reviews. Thank you so much to everyone who recommended football...
Dear reader, what interesting times we are living in. There has been a noticeable shift at LCTV Towers this week...
Dear reader, I haven't written for a while. I've been finding it difficult to get motivated - indeed to get...
How have your eating habits changed since lockdown, dear reader? I have evolved from snacking ALL THE TIME to taking...
We are beginning to find inventive ways of replacing physical social interaction - both remotely (with friends, family and colleagues)...
Dear reader, I can’t remember exactly who recommended a spreadsheet as a cure for anxiety but it bloody works! After...
Friday. Groundhog Day. With nowhere to go and nothing in the diary, time and dates are becoming increasingly irrelevant as...
I’ve been feeling much more positive the last couple of days. Time is such a precious resource that is often...
Day One of Week Two working from home. I much prefer this to working in the office. I get a...
Sunday saw the introduction of a TV curfew at LCTV Towers (no TV allowed until 9pm for the benefit of...
When they said last weekend would be our last weekend of freedom for a while I couldn’t quite believe it....
It’s been a funny old week. On the commuter train into Manchester on Thursday the public address announcement advised passengers...
Ah the final midweek match of the season. I was looking forward to this one. I skipped to Manchester Piccadilly...
The moment I heard the news of Neil Critchley’s appointment as Blackpool ‘head coach’ on Monday, I headed directly to...
As I waited on Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly for the train taking me home to Blackpool for the weekend,...
Right then. A big derby match tonight at home to strugglers Bolton. Surely THIS one was winnable, right...? I caught...
Elton John once sang: Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's alright That was obviously written before...
So, what did you get up to this Valentines weekend? Lee and I spent the early part of Valentines evening...
You see the trouble with Southend United is that they make Blackpool look like world beaters. Which is great on...
Finally a home game on a Saturday! Much as I love the adventure of an awayday, it has been a...
I bounced out of bed at 5.30am on Saturday and sang along lustily to Aztec Camera in the shower. The...
Following my epic weekend in Lincoln (and the accompanying on-pitch disappointment), I cant say I was disappointed when the Tranmere...
Coping mechanism #325: When the football is rubbish, build fun stuff around it. This weekend I resolved to explore Lincoln...
