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07 Apr 2016

Swindon Town Statement Over Suspension of Three Players

Seems they have suspended three players but are not making any more information available currently. The players involved are:

Drissa Traore. A 24 year old Ivorian. He signed for Swindon in the summer of 2015 and has played at junior levels for France. He has made 26 appearances in league and cup in 2015-16 without scoring.
Jeremy Balmy. A 21 year old French midfielder who had made 14 league and cup appearances in 2015-16 without scoring.
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill. A 20 year old English wing back signed from Arsenal in summer 2015 .

They state that they are conducting an internal investigation into the players recent conduct and will not be considered for selection. No further information will be given until that investigation is complete.

Reports in the media though already suggest that the players inhaled nitrous oxide in a video live on social media via balloons on wednesday 6th April. It is reported that between 2006-2012 there were 17 deaths in the UK after taking nitrous oxide. Raheem Sterling ( Liverpool and England) was allegedly pictured taking nitrous oxide in 2015.

Michael Doughty Scoring For Swindon in their 4-1 victory at Colchester

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04 Apr 2016

Carshalton 4 Three Bridges 1 – Absolutely wonderful football game

One normally does not associate Ryman South with wonderful flowing and skilful football. Those people may be wrong. Essentially to give context this was a middle table game with nothing depending on it between two very different teams. The War Memorial ground is an excellent ground at this level and might easily host Conference South football with a few strategic amendments. The superb 3G pitch looks like a huge success and it was difficult to tell any difference from a grass version.

War Memorial Ground Carshalton

Some of the best non league terracing Carshalton

Even in the warm up it was clear to the casual observer, one of the 288 present, that the Carshalton team was young and mostly looked 10 years younger than a slightly gnarled older looking Three Bridges team.

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Three Bridges also favoured the opportunity to debate regularly with the referee Chris Felton , whether his decisions were correct and give input as to which Carshalton players should be booked and for what reason.

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The game was played in the first half in bright sunshine and by the second half light rain.

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The crowd of 288 was a very respectable number considering the league positions and the paucity of away following from Three bridges.

The reality was that Carshalton won this game easily 4-1 and in Ricky Korboa had a winger with unreal talent and balance, who scored a goal worthy of goal of the month at any football level.

Ricky Korboa

Ricky Korboa

This current Carshalton team if kept together will be interesting to watch over the next 12 months.

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Tommy Bradford

Tommy Bradford

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28 Mar 2016

Chipstead 3 Whyteleafe 2 – A Photographic Story

The first game I have seen at Chipstead on a day when little football was played due to Storm Katie. The pitch looked good and the football was end to end in a game that clearly mattered to both teams. A 3-2 victory for Chipstead was just about deserved mostly because Chipstead took their chances and a good goalkeeping display from Alex Kozakis. Shawn Lyle was impressive for Whyteleafe who maybe might rue some dire finishing in the first half when they maybe should have taken the game. A hail storm gave parts of the game a surreal image and overall Craig Tanner will be pleased with the performance tonight. 00001958

Shawn Lyle

Alex Kozakis

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14 Mar 2016

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Beyond Awful Football shirts

Despite the fact that selling football shirts makes clubs a huge amount of money there are some truly hideous ones out there. The Guardian of all people set the ball rolling in 2013 with these photos and they highlight a curious kit sponsor entitled POOH Jeans

http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2013/oct/10/football-kits-weird-horrendous-in-pictures

Some of these are beyond belief, and it can be envisaged that colour blindness or even total blindness can be the only mitigating factor in their selection. It equates with the Latvia entry for 2016 Eurovision winning, and you need to go and hear this. The Norwich kit is particularly curious as it is their third kit, the only saving grace, but when you consider in fact that all three kits are yellow and green, it makes you wonder what they will wear with a real kit clash.

A few examples of awfulness can further get us going

For this season The Mirror trawled through a few dreadful kits being worn and posted their most awful selection, however it has to be said that the awfulness imposed on us for 2015-16 is in fact rather less than that back in 2013. With one exception, the kit worn by Japanese side V-Varen Nagasaki.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/11-worst-kits-season-world-6218639

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The one I feel is under rated in its awfulness is Swansea City away kit 2015-16

Swansea away

But we should not under rate other entrants into this fascinating competition.

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2014/08/07/top-25-ugliest-football-shirts-ever-including-arsenal-liverpool-and-chelsea-abominations-plus-ridiculous-broccoli-bird-poo-and-skid-mark-jerseys/

But the winner of the most awful kit of all time must go to this one:

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14 Feb 2016

A Day out at Colchester Football Club. A Lesson for many clubs who want to learn how to treat their fans

Colchester have to be one of the most friendly clubs in the lower leagues. their season is not going well. Currently sitting bottom of league 1 and seemingly destined to be visiting league 2 grounds next season. But despite this the fans were cheerful, friendly and carrried on supporting their team until the 90th minute even when losing at home 4-1 to Swindon.

These photos give some flavour to a thoroughly enjoyable day. You see friendly media folks busy at work, friendly stewards smiling, the referee and officials having a good chat with some younger fans pre-game. Raises plenty of questions for me, why exactly can this not happen at any game?

The photos of the Press box remove the illusion that reporters and commentators sit in some luxury palace, far from it. The wind was howling even when the fans were not. The Swindon fans were here to have a good time and were nosiy from the start, a decent number in a smallish crowd.

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Colchester fans look on concerned

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Press Box Colchester FC

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Swindon fans had lots to say

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Colchester Stewards were among the best and most cheerful in League 1

Referee and Officials talking to the Crowd before the game

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Michael Doughty Scores his Second goal

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14 Feb 2016

Colchester 1 Swindon 4. A Few Photos

The Third Swindon Goal .Excellent finish from Michael Doughty

Joe Edwards with the Colchester goal

Frankie Kent and Jonathan Obika tussle

Elliott Parish Unhappy Day

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07 Feb 2016

Another respite from The Football League. Molesey 2 Whitstable 0

For anyone not familiar with this non league territory, a Ryman South game between a team on the edge of the play offs and a team bottom of the table. Whitstable sit bottom of the table with 14 points and a negative goal difference of 53 having conceded 89 goals in 33 games of which they have won a mere 4. Maybe the result then was predictable with a 2-0 win for molasses but for large portions of the game the result could have been in favour of Whitstable.

The Whitstable away support was in fact more noisy than the Molesey support most of the games with some curious chants, the most perplexing for me was the chant ” We know who we are”. However it takes a lot of effort not to mention money to come and support your team when they are expected to lose , and lose badly. I have no doubt that the pints of alcohol helped enormously dull the pain of this new loss.

The game though was end to end, and both goals were scored by the strong Stafforde Palmer, the first a powerful header from a corner minutes after half-time and the second a solo run where he kept composure and slotted home nicely. Before this game the player statistics in the programme informed us that in 27 games he had scored 22 goals this season, and in his complete Molesey career 62 goals came from 66 games. At this level impressive. The other player to observe was Craig Lewington the son of Ray Lewington. A tough tackling midfielder previously with Walton Casuals.

Having watched a dire performance from Brentford on the previous evening it was refreshing that in front of a crowd of 63 both teams were able to show 90 minutes of hard work and commitment in blustery conditions. The food is also somewhat better and cheaper than that served at league grounds, and served too with a friendly face. the cost of getting in is only £8 and for me thats too cheap even at this level.

I dont know much of the real history of molesey but the ground looks in need of a makeover and if I understand things is due for some sort of redevelopment, however it is surrounded by new looking houses, some of which overlook the pitch alongside the terracing.

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30 Jan 2016

An Unusual Hot Dog On The Woking Terraces

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29 Jan 2016

Dillon Barnes. Colchester United Goalkeeper

Dillon Barnes a 19 year old goalkeeper was signed from Bedford Town Sept 2015 on a one year contract. Previously he has played for a couple of league of clubs including Fulham Under -21 , loan to Farnborough Town ( making 15 appearnaces) and Barnet Under-19.

Currently playing in the Colchester under 21 team and played versus Brentford today January 2016.