Keep an eye on the Danes. Won all three and yet to concede a goal. I know the coach Albert Cappelas as I worked with him at my club back in the US. An amazing coach deeply into the Cruyff philosophy and legacy left at at Barcelona.. He worked with Guardiola at Barcelona and was an academy director a...
WAs a very good event. Some excellent inductees, lovely interviews, unique and historic film and very well put together. This is a great project by STAR, well done to all concerned and I recommend anyone seeking out the footage and taking a look. Particular congratulations to Mick and Colin for wel...
'Featured' results tonight Trophy Brackley 3-2 Royston Bracknell 2-3 Havant & W - 'Robins' with a last minute pen from Bowerman Dorking W 2-0 Hungerford Slough 2-2 Dartford - 'Rebels win 6-5 pens' Sending off of Max Herbert for a harsh second yellow was the turning point. Bracknell were more th...
The thing with the 4-3 over Plymouth, we were absolutely shite for 65 minutes. Great comeback yes but great game, no. Branfoot's tactical switch turned the game. Burvill on for an ineffective Gilkes and Bremner pushed up front. Senior and Mad Max terrorized Plymouth from that point. Despite the sco...
Reading 5 Tranmere 0 in '76 - Defied convention and destroyed a promotion rival; and yes, the Friday goal was as good as people say. Reading 4 Plymouth 3 in '85 - The most improbable comeback after being outplayed for 65 mins. Limbs. Tranmere 1 Reading 3 in '95 - Perfect away performance. Blackpool ...
Went to see - or not see - Egham Town v Ascot Utd on Saturday. Only one side of the ground floodlit and by half-time it was pretty dark. Shouts of 'my Christmas lights are brighter' from the Ascot ultras. Unsurprisingly abandoned. A mercy for an utterly dire Egham as they were 0-1 down to a neat Asc...
If only we had a 3d model of Elm Park, we could start to piece it back together with all the fragments still in existence, sold on toto fans or taken by fans for safe keeping (you know who you are), sold on elsewhere and then just replicate the rest. I can contribute some urine towards a recreation...
Be interesting to know what fans out there bought stuff from the auction soon after we moved into the Madstad. I was on holiday sadly and missed it; I'm sure the dugouts and maybe parts of the floodlights got sold to local non league clubs I'm also sure I saw a picture of one of the turnstiles in s...
Roy Bentley Jack Mansell Charlie Hurley. Maurice Evans. Ian Branfoot. Ian Porterfield Mark McGhee Jimmy Quinn Mick Gooding. Terry Bullivant. Tommy Burns. Alan Pardew. Kevin Dillon (CT) Steve Coppell (god) Brendon Rodgers Brian McDermott (1) Eammon Dolan (CT) Nigel Adkins Steve Clarke. Martin Kuhl (...
Here's a good stat, inspired by Liverpool's 7-2 defeat at Villa and their topping the table (for now). The biggest margin of defeat in a season by a team that subsequently wins the league is six goals - a joint record held by Benfica - who lost 7-1 to Sporting in 86-87 but went on to win the league...
Bracknell took care of business in the FAT against a pretty dull Sevenoaks Town outfit from IL-SE. Cracking goal from Shaquille Ishmael sealed it late on. Back to the league and FC Romania up next.
I don't remember (fully) my first game, but I remember the end of Bullivant's last game, when there was a pitch invasion and people were calling for him to be sacked. What year was this? I also remember (partially) a Boxing Day Game against West Brom (or maybe it was the Wolves) at Elm Park. It was...
1st January 1966, 3-0 win v Walsall at EP. Do not remember the game, but remember after the game my mum, dad and uncles queueing at the the back of the South Bank for tickets for the 3rd round cup tie against Sheffield Wednesday. Even at just eight years old, really fu cked off that they did not get...
Bracknell Town brushed aside National League South Oxford City 2-0 at Larges Lane yesterday. The Robins were very impressive - albeit against a very rusty City - and I will be a regular there this season. Another NLS side in Chippenham Town next up on Tuesday evening.
Will never, EVER get over that defeat. Still haunts me. I would suggest that every Royal knew that side would break up and our chance was gone. But then...
Jerry St Clair A quarter of a century ago today we enjoyed our greatest away performance ever. The goal highlights don't do it justice - we were brilliant that day.
Anyone remember this day? We hired a minibus...happy days.3-1 win. Yeah, first day of the season, we had Senior, Maskell and Moran upfront for the first time together, I think they all scored, Exeter were Div 4 champs and hadn't been beaten for ages at home. Lovely sunny day, great pub and fish and...