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I haven't written anything on this blog for a while. It's not as if things aren't going well on the pitch. Since the last pos...

I used to have a Commodore 64 and the game Rambo II First Blood. The gameplay was even more primitive than the plot of the film it was ba...

Oxford United 1 Forest Green Rovers 0  Forest Green was much more routine than it perhaps looked. They looked physically bigger than u...

The drop   Forest Green Rovers are a funny little club; for a period they looked like one of those clubs that would come piling in, in...

It’s not easy thinking of what to write about when things are going well. You need a bit of drama and farce to get your teeth into. Everyone...

During the death throws of our league days it was hardly unusual for us to enter the last twenty minutes of a game a goal down. I, and many ...

Ricky or Yemi, Yemi or Ricky? Which do you play and which stays on the bench. It doesn’t seem to matter really. Both are impact players, one...

Football is a series of themes and trends punctuated by moments. It is frequently analysed the other way around. An individual mistake is ev...

Earlier this season I described our fixture list as looking like an extended pre-season. Little did I know how prophetic that was. We have p...

The first game of the season is like the opening night of Big Brother. On Big Brother the contestants are full of promise; beautiful people ...

To Dagenham , the title. Forest Green Rovers didn't even play well; they weren't particularly organised and had little to offer up ...