From Fanzines To Punk Football: The Resistance Endures
Half time during a dull Manchester derby and the advert for a well-known betting company arrives like a lorry crashing through your living room.
The End Of Another Summer: Stockport v Boston
For those who try and ignore pre-season’s procession of A.Triallists and defeats in ex-mining villages, the new domestic season arrives as it always does.
Overhead Kicks: Boston v Chorley
It was around ten past four last Wednesday that the week began to unravel. En-route to Chorley for the first of two play-off games, we arrived at the back of a queue of slow moving traffic that turned into a queue of static traffic that turned into a queue of people-walking-their-dogs-down-the-outside-lane kind of traffic.
The Premier League: English Football’s Vacuous Death Star
When news about the latest blockbuster Sky/BT television deal exploded across Twitter, so scarcely believable were the figures that you could sense the incredulity from those at the press conference. You could almost hear their brains fizzing and popping as they let the news sink in.
Brazil 2014: A Retrospective
So that’s that, then. After quite literally years of fevered build-up, controversial favela pacification, stadium construction nightmares, infrastructure failures and allegations of high-level corruption of the worst order, it’s all over.
Inexplicably Inept Depending Of Our Time: Paul Bastock
#1 – Paul Bastock v King’s Lynn The beneficiary Dave Robinson The guilty Paul Bastock The match Boston United 1, Kings Lynn 2 Southern Premier League, 1999/2000 The date 27 December 1999 The goal It would, ultimately, prove to be an irrelevant defeat in a title-winning season, but Boston United’s festive derby defeat to King’s […]
From Simon Armstrong to Junior Konadu, Let’s Celebrate Boston United’s Talents
Once, many years ago, a time so distant that John Major was still Prime Minister and teenage boys were playing Cannon Fodder instead of Call of Duty, there was a young Boston United midfielder by the name of Simon Armstrong. Younger fans may never have heard of him, and why would they? He wasn’t brought […]
A Game Of Chance: Boston’s Gambling Habit
The news this week that the contract of Boston United keeper Ashley Timms had been terminated by ‘mutual consent’ – a classic football euphemism commonly deployed to make it sound like everyone shook hands and parted amicably rather than flipping each other the finger – probably shocked some Boston supporters.
Boston’s Future Unveiled: Glass. Lots Of Glass.
Fan forums are usually dull, tedious affairs. Typically, 50 sweaty old blokes gather in a fug of deep-fried food and simmering anger to offer unwanted tactical advice to an embattled manager and moan about the price of pies, before the whole sorry event comes to a depressing and uncomfortable end when someone gets a bit […]
From Workington to Holwell: Partial Attempts At Redemption
There’s an advert promoting the Premier League you’ve probably seen on tv recently. From Barclays, and under the weird pretence of thanking football supporters for funding the top flight’s transformation into a commercial free-for-all, it’s half a minute of faintly nauseating, mawkish slop in which fans are either travelling to games in a state of […]
Report: Workington 1, Boston United 2
“Shit!! Shit!! You’re shit, Reds!” And you thought Boston fans were demanding arseholes? Tell that to the vein-popping racialist who, after chastising Kevin Austin for having the audacity to parade about in his NON-WHITE skin like he FUCKING OWNED THE PLACE, decided to boo his own team after 93 minutes of a ten month season […]
Well, thanks for that, John
Well, thanks a lot, Grimsby. Thank you very much. Not content with fouling up your own hopes of automatic promotion through sheer lack of competence, you’ve decided to sabotage the season of a cute, cuddly little part-time outfit down the road which, apart from systemic financial dishonesty spanning several seasons between 1998 and 2007, had […]