Never Again Will I Repeat Myself

Never again will I repeat myself. Maybe.

  • GF38: a glimmer of light?

    So maybe there is some hope.  A couple of weeks ago the club looked doomed: wretched on the pitch; rudderless off it; and the game’s managing body preparing an administrative relegation that would surely condemn the club to extinction.

  • Football, bloody football

    Things are not looking good.  After a brief display of attacking verve and defensive solidity in the 4-1 victory over Northampton, Barnet have reverted to type and indeed trademarked a pattern of play: look solid for an hour and lead 1-0, and then start screwing up at the back and leak a couple of soft…

  • Another weekend passes

    GF managed a 2-2 draw at home to the league leaders.  Barnet came back from Torquay with a point from a 1-1 draw.  I think I’d have accepted both of those results before kick-off.

  • Barnet 0 Charlton 0

    Charlton must be really, really, really wretched in front of goal.

  • GF38: update

    So the message about scoring goals has been heeded, with the boys scoring four times last night at Châteauroux. If in coming weeks they can concentrate on scoring them at the right end, things will be looking even better.

  • Barnet: another season of misery?

    I firmly believe that you don’t choose your football teams.  They choose you.  Whatever the case, some pretty bad decisions were taken way back when. 

  • GF38: another season of misery?

    It’s all gone distinctly pear-shaped at Grenoble Foot.  Several years of hope, excitement and entertaining football culminated in the opening of the splendid Stade des Alpes in 2008 and a somewhat unexpected promotion to the top flight, but after a single season of solidity in Ligue 1 (and a run to the semi-finals of the…

  • Hmmm

    So according to the documentation I’ve done the difficult part in installing and configuring the software.  I have a nasty feeling that the difficult part is actually going to be in finding something interesting to say from time to time.

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