Still exhausted from our epic trip to Hull midweek, it was approaching 1100 when I woke up on Saturday morning...
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(If you missed Part One, here’s the link.) On returning to the hotel last night, I hovered in reception as...
Ten years ago I undertook a pub crawl of Hull ahead of the first match of the season on a...
Much as I love researching and exploring on away missions for the Football Tourist's Guide, I do need a break...
(If you missed Part One of this adventure, here's a quick link) Bong! Bong! Bong! Bong! Bong! Why was I...
After the traumatic end to my Lytham crawl last week, I decided that this week's pub crawl was going to...
When your team hasn't won a league game all season and they are playing the team at the top of...
A bit of a change for us this weekend. We did not travel down to London the night before to...
Our final fan-filled friendly of 2021 was a nice local one at Morecambe. This offered the opportunity to explore our...
Home games are a doddle now I've moved back to Blackpool. I don't need to block out an afternoon to...
I love Squires Gate. They are such a welcoming club. I am beginning to feel very much at home at...
Here was me thinking I'd get a bit of a break with no midweek Blackpool match. Not bloody likely! We're...
During pre-season - buoyed by Blackpool sticking three past Everton in ten minutes and going 2-0 up at Anfield -...
My latest guest blogger is Mikee Evans AKA @EvoBoozySaddler, who loves Walsall FC and has a great rule about not...
I'm currently reading a delightful book by Tim Cooper called 'We Go Again'. It is an account of one season...
It was (don't) touch and go this week whether we were allowed to go to a midweek match, with new...
Dear reader, it's not been a good week. I hadn't slept well on Monday night, so wasn't in the best...
I really enjoyed my visit to Gillingham last year. It had a micropub, a cat, a quest and dinosaurs. Who...
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....
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...
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...
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...
This week I have read Six Added Minutes by Johnnie Lowery. The author is a young fan of Sutton United...
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...
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...
Dear reader, welcome to my new series of football book reviews. Thank you so much to everyone who recommended football...
We are beginning to find inventive ways of replacing physical social interaction - both remotely (with friends, family and colleagues)...
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...
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...
