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Posted at 4:50pm Thursday 14th October 2010
Tinpot.......Of little importance or value.
An odd title for this weeks ramblings but if you stick with it, all will become clear!
Posted at 11:59pm Thursday 7th October 2010
Posted at 7:17pm Thursday 23rd September 2010
Goals, goals and more goals
Who would have thought it. Ten games into the season and Borough games are now averaging 4.5 goals a match!
Posted at 9:30am Friday 17th September 2010
Plenty in reserve
So the alarm rang out at 5am and the great journey to the far flung North West lay ahead. Well it did for some diehards but I opted for the easier journey to the outskirts of Uckfield. The temptation of a 16 hour round trip to Barrow lingered very briefly, but having done the jaunt twice in recent times, I took the coward's way out and decided that 20 miles was far more acceptable than 335!
Posted at 9:41pm Thursday 9th September 2010
A day to remember
So, Saturday 4th September was Non League day and boy did we get some coverage! With 2 red cards, a heroic display from a Boro God and some bloke called Terry at the Lane, the Gospel according to Garry and Nick filtered on to the national radio airwaves!
Posted at 6:39pm Monday 23rd August 2010
Puffing Dragons and injured bird
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there was a BIG football club .... fire breathing dragons sent throngs of burning flames at all that crossed their path and many a foe shuddered at the mere thought of being visited by such a monster!
Posted at 4:59pm Thursday 19th August 2010
Hayes throw in the towel
After a self imposed exile (the tail end of last season was too depressing to blog about) I am back to dip my toes tentatively in the waters of Blogworld again. With the summer behind us and that debacle of a football tournament, I know I was not alone in the anticipation of the new campaign. Some old friends hung up their red shirts, and new ones have taken them off the hangers to wear the Boro Martello for the first time. A warm welcome goes to all the summer signings.
Posted at 4:43pm Monday 1st March 2010
Back with a vengeance
Now, where were we? Oh you mean you have actually missed this nonsense? Well I do apologise for the lack of blogging but having moved into a broadband-free property, I couldn't get online to get this through. But I am back, whether it be by popular demand, or just my whim, and the blogs continue.
Posted at 3:33pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
We don't need a new striker - we've got Darren Baker!
I was sitting watching the FA Cup replay last night between my beloved Eagles and some Midlands lot, and it suddenly occurred to me. I have just taken a winter break from the blog spot. It wasn't a conscious decision but not having travelled to away games and only having a depressing FA Trophy replay defeat to endure, there has been little if any inspirational events to spur me into action. Having played twice at The Abbey in front of 14 away fans in the space or four days, and there is still no news on whether it was the same 14 fans at each game, and then taken a draw at Tamworth, Priory Lane actually staged a game for the first time in 25 days when Boro v Cambridge, part IV went ahead on a very chilly Tuesday evening.
Posted at 5:12pm Thursday 14th January 2010
Going insane with a lack of football
Not been a good week really has it. The Sussex countryside looked glorious as the blanket of snow covered hills and vales. Well, pretty it maybe but what good is pretty to die-hard football fans? Not that is has been a local issue as United Kingdom PLC ground to a halt. It must be bad when all you can resort to is a few highlights on Saturday night terrestrial television. For only two Premier League grounds to be fit for play shows how crippling a bit of snow can be. Of course, it's not just the fact that a game is called off, it's all the behind the scenes roll on effects that can affect clubs in more ways than one.
Posted at 11:54am Thursday 7th January 2010
A winter of discontent
So the New Year arrived but sadly on the pitch there was nothing new to warrant a champagne cork popping fanfare. After the dogged spirit we showed on Boxing Day, one or two of us even thought we could go one step further and grapple the three points from the visit of Creepy. In subsequent reports Garry called us "lethargic" and to be frank, that was quite a polite way of putting things. I can honestly say only one display ever disappointed me more in recent years, and that was a 5-0 drubbing at St Albans. Keep that game in mind, it pops up again later.....
Posted at 5:20pm Wednesday 30th December 2009
Posted at 11:24pm Tuesday 22nd December 2009
A weekend of common sense and stupidity
With the schools breaking up for the festive celebrations, the sight that greeted many a child last Friday brought alive a magical winter wonderland.
Posted at 10:53pm Thursday 17th December 2009
Barmy fans worship at the temple of Smart
What a refreshing change this week made. Put quite simply, we won! Not only a victory but with a clean sheet as well. The FA Trophy may not be the glamorous tournament the FA Cup is but when it's the only one you are left in, it matters! OK, we are still in the Sussex Senior Cup but that doesn't have Wembley as a reward (although Priory Lane is a very close second!) The Park Side Road ground looked no different to the last time we visited and it is safe to say that no improvements had been made to the home of The Wings. It still had all the olde worlde charm of a lower league football club. Call me old fashioned but there is something about a playing surface that is covered with fallen leaves.
Posted at 11:39pm Thursday 10th December 2009
Captain America, Superman and Scooby Doo too!
Well, what a seven days I have had! Saturday of course hailed the visit of Cambridge United, a club that last year had the audacity to take all six points off us but were arguably the best team we played either home or away. You don't get into the play-offs two seasons in a row unless you have quality. On that basis and our recent form, one could have feared a blitz, but once again we seemed to rise to the occasion of the big club visiting and gave a very competent display.
Posted at 11:08pm Thursday 3rd December 2009
Protests, Sir Len and a dodgy penalty
So the history of Eastbourne Borough Football Club was further enriched over the past week end with the antics at Chester.
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