The Glue That Binds
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Sheffield FC 0-3 Goole FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay, Tuesday 1st September 2015 It was here at the Coach & Horses Ground that I saw the early stages of Warrington Town’s magnificent cup run last...
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Guernsey 1-2 Phoenix Sports FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay Wednesday 2nd September 2015 “We’re all going on a European tour, a European tour, a European tour”. A few of the Rooks fans were getting a...
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Dorking Wanderers 0-1 Slough Town FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, 12 September 2015 Two football teams and four train stations – Dorking has it all, plus more trees than you can shake a leafy Surrey stick...
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Tilbury 1-1 St Neots Town FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, 12th September 2015. Expunged; a word encountered only in football, and only for football that ultimately never was. Matches disappeared forever...
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Glossop North End 1-1 Skelmersdale FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, 12th September 2015 One of non-league football’s biggest appeals is the unrestrained licence to explore Britain. Few other pastimes take...
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Brockenhurst 1-5 Wealdstone 20915/16 FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round, 10th October 2015. Attendance: 477 Wealdstone Raid Breaks Brockenhurst Bunting Brockenhurst rolled out the bunting to welcome...
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There was a hole in my shoe. In the short walk from my house to the station, the rain had got in and by the time I sat down on the tube my left foot was damp. The lady in the coffee shop at Paddington...
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Whitehawk 5-3 Lincoln City FA Cup 1st Round 8th November 2015 ‘Whitehawk…? Where’s that…?’ – must be a question that an increasing number of people have been asking themselves over the past few...
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CROCUS & COCKLES, ALL IN A VASE Eastbourne Town 5-4 Greenwich Borough FA Vase 2nd Round, 21st November 2015 On one of those days when winter announces itself to football fans, we were treated to...
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