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Teatime kick offs are weird, aren’t they? Pottering about the house doing odd jobs because if you go to the pub at the normal time,...
Arlene Finnigan
Apr 29, 20234 min read
Big Mike Strikes Again
And now, the end is near, and so we face the final curtain. We did it Frank’s way. The last away day of the season is traditionally fancy...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 22, 20234 min read
As long as I gaze on Boundary Park sunset, I am in paradise
Have you seen the league table? Twelfth! TWELFTH! Nosebleed territory. Maybe David Unsworth really IS a football genius. We started...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 7, 20233 min read
Wrexham 5, but Levon was the greatest sight
"At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice,...
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Arlene Finnigan
Apr 1, 20236 min read
If we're just April Fools, I don't care
First of all, I am so sorry. Doing an April Fool’s joke was The Embarrassing Andy Halliwell’s idea, and I was not initially in favour of...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 25, 20233 min read
Love Sex Due Diligence, comin' thru in the things you do to me
I know we’ve been saying it’s been nice to just talk about what’s happening on the pitch again, but this week, do we really have to talk...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 18, 20234 min read
99 problems but the pitch ain't one
A week last Thursday (9th March), it was 30 years to the day since we beat Manchester United 1-0 at Boundary Park in the Premier League....
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 11, 20234 min read
Woking v a back 5, what a way to make a living
Isn't football brilliant? One minute you're in despair after yet another defeat on Planet Vanarama; the next you're pissing yourself...
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Arlene Finnigan
Mar 4, 20234 min read
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today
Wow. The Atheticos were right. David Unsworth IS a football genius. It turns out my pessimism last week about us ending Chesterfield’s...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 25, 20234 min read
With Dave we will suffer; with Dave, will we recover?
Ronan Keating once sang “Life is a rollercoaster, just got to ride it”. Ronan Keating is a gobshite. That song is shit. Supporting Latics...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 18, 20232 min read
Where's Your Heads At?
Well Tuesday was a kick in the crotch, wasn’t it? Happy fucking Valentine’s. The game started brightly enough, and we were comfortably...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 11, 20235 min read
Dagenham? Dave!
Supporting Latics is many things. It’s frustrating, infuriating, draining, painful. But it’s never boring. Let’s call a spade a spade and...
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Arlene Finnigan
Feb 4, 20234 min read
Shot by both sides
Is a draw away at Aldershot a good result? Is it a criminal lack of ambition to be happy with a point away from home when we’re 20th in...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 28, 20234 min read
Timmy Timmy Timmy Aaja
Who wants to go to Wembley anyway? It’s deffo for the best that we binned off that tinpot trophy to concentrate on the league. Which we...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 21, 20234 min read
The love of David Unsworth, press without assassination
No trip to Wembley this year then. Unless we make the play offs. And let’s face it, there’s more chance of the Roughyeds making the...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 14, 20234 min read
These Boots Were Made For Dorking
I said it would all come good, didn’t I? I said our first away win of the season was just around the corner and we were due to give...
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Arlene Finnigan
Jan 7, 20233 min read
Dorking away? I don't know what I'm to say
You can’t say it wasn’t an improvement. Yes, it needed to be, the previous game was woefully, unacceptably awful, the bar was low. But...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 31, 20223 min read
Will nothing change on New Year's Day?
I did want to end 2022 on a positive note, I really did. Especially after the year we’ve had. It’s a bit hard to put a positive spin on...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 24, 20224 min read
Oh, my friends, it's been a long hard year
Welcome to my Christmas blog. I’d like to thank you for the year. On Tuesday just gone, Timehop informed me that it was exactly a year...
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Arlene Finnigan
Dec 17, 20223 min read
With scarves of blue tied round our throats
See, I told you it would come good in the end, didn’t I? I said it’d be reet and it would eventually click into place. Ahem. Don’t go...
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