Those two little words

Its that time of the season when two little words can ruin your weekend…..pitch inspection! As the hardcore non league followers amongst us can't wait until our weekly fix of non league football, the last thing you want to hear is ‘there is going to be...

Big Fish in a little pond

Its now three years since IpswichTown decided to return to Suffolk's Premier Cup competition and the question many are asking is, is it working? In their first year back the crowds flocked to Felixstowe, Ipswich Wanderers and Needham Market...

Life's a Pitch.

Saturday provided a first for me, no, not arriving before kick off which I did manage, but a trip to Broad Lane and third placed Wivenhoe. After a long week at work and up North I was, as usual, looking forward to my Saturday fix of non league football...

Are we there yet? (Part Four)

As journeys go, this was a pretty decent one but certainly the furthest. I also had the added bonus of navigating for a change although we did have a very good Tom Tom Sat Nav (other makes are available!). Our first stop was on the M6 after passing the...

Are we there yet? (Part Three)

As journeys go, this was an eventful one to say the least. On an awful late October evening we had to encounter a torrid of weather before reaching our destination, the aptly named Dripping Pan! On the A12 we encountered our first delay as rush hour travellers...

Any dream will do.

A couple of years back, a certain Premier League footballer named Dave Kitson said he couldn't give two hoots for the FA Cup. Well maybe, if he wasn't such a pampered professional football and remembered his roots, he would understand the magic of...

Surf's up

I'm a regular surfer. No, not on the water, clearly, but around the world wide web or narrowing it down, the local non league scene. Nowadays nearly everything is on the web which, for the old school gentry among us, sometimes causes a problem. I regularly...

Sing when we're counting

It just goes to prove what a decent cup run can do for a clubs finances. At the moment Lowestoft Town are pulling in the hoards to Crown Meadow clearly on the back of their Vase success of last season where they got all the way to Wembley. The Trawlerboys...

Are we there yet? (Part Two)

A 260 mile round trip at the weekend as the FA Cup gains momentum. Glorious Surrey sunshine and a hot performance from the visitors to overturn their higher league opponents. It's the magic of the FA Cup of course although some more high profile results...

You can forget the sat nav

Lowestoft is never easy to navigate at the best of times but surely the latest traffic management designs are really taking the proverbial! It was bad enough setting off late for the first ‘six pointer’ of the Ridgeon Premier Division but to be then confronted...

If I were a rich man

I almost choked on my Cheerios on Saturday morning as I flicked through the EADT. I had to turn to the front page to just check that it wasn't April Fools Day as I read that Needham Market has one of the smallest budgets in the Ridgeon League. A lot is...

Are we there yet?

Blimey! It's FA Cup weekend again and yet again, I find myself out on the road. Not as far as March this time as its Cornard. I shouldn't moan as surely its every non league player and supporters dream to travel across country in this the World's...

Spanish inquisition

As the transfer window drew to a close this week, I thought a couple of Ridgeon League sides had managed to secure some Spanish players seeing as the word El Bow popped up in the FA Cup last week. As both names cropped up in the Fens, I thought maybe...

I can see clearly now!

On my travels this week following the REAL mighty Blues, I have witnessed some indifferent refereeing decisions. Now I'm all for the latest RESPECT campaign and following the Scottish Premier League's decision to gain sponsorship for their referees via...

Wish You Were here....

My wife has many fine traits, one of them, organising family trips. Yet she has this very handy knack of arranging dates at the start of the football season, most notably opening FA Cup games. So for the third successive year, I missed the opening FA...