Category Archives: Very random

Are we sitting comfortably?

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Sophie

Those of a nervous disposition may wish to look away as the content of the next sentence contains some disturbing imagery. Last Saturday I was too tired to go to football. I really couldn’t be a#sed. I know. That is … Continue reading →

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Bottom of the whole world

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Sophie

Finally. It had to happen. Just as I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Yup, date weekend caught up with me. I found myself with one team at home and one team away (but easily accessible in a playing in … Continue reading →

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Didn’t we have a lovely time. The day we went to Belvoir Drive

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Sophie

Oh I know it doesn’t scan but you get the gist and I like the occasional homage to a seventies novelty folk hit (ok, delete occasional and replace with ‘one-off’). What I liked even more was the chance to visit … Continue reading →

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Cocktail hour

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Sophie

…Or rather, afternoon. Having less gumption (good word) than the Bard, I’m afraid that ‘injurious distance did stop my way’ at the weekend. In contemplating my footballing options, I did, as the gaffer says “follow the data.” • St Albans … Continue reading →

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Sophie

No it’s not Clash karaoke time. And I’m not about to celebrate my first 12 months of living in St Albans by moving. The dilemma is much more important than that. It being of a footballing nature. You see last … Continue reading →

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Don’t knock it

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Sophie

No, not more ramblings about everybody’s favourite programme seller and Clarence Park punmeister. I thought that perhaps it was time to redress the balance and give Mr TLF a bit of good press…..OK if you are finished picking up your … Continue reading →

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Gazzetta Clarence Park

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Sophie

Sameness is the mother of disgust, Variety the cure. Ah Signor Petrarch, it’s as if you spent your life hanging around Clarence Park on match days rather than thinking great thoughts and writing poetry in fourteenth century Florence. Admittedly the … Continue reading →

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FC FC

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Sophie

You’ll be pleased to know that misery Fox who was moping around the parish of TLF last week has gone. Dumped en route to my sixteenth trip (the journey variety not drug related) to the loveliness that is a small … Continue reading →

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The straw that broke the blogger’s back

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Sophie

After a, let’s say ‘difficult’ couple of weeks work wise (And I am using the word ‘difficult’ in a nice understated English kind of a way), there was always going to be a tipping point and a good chance that … Continue reading →

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Football. But not as we know it

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Sophie

There are times, when I am in front of the TV, watching some bit of pomp and circumstance in some fancy, ancient building in this green and pleasant land, feeling strangely proud to be British, wiping a red, white and … Continue reading →

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