An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No16 Luton Town “Were you trully wafted here from Paradise?” “Nah. Luton Airport” And with those words, at 8pm on ITV, the small unremarkable town of Luton became famous beyond Luton. Luton is the fourth largest town in Bedfordshire, after Dunstable, Biggleswade and Sandy. It is well known [...]
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The History of Luton Town
Posted in The History of... on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The History of Kidderminster
Posted in The History of... on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No15 Kidderminster Harriers Kidderminster is a small town in the West Midlands famous for its Axminster carpets. Kidderminster Harriers were formed in 1886 from an athletics and rugby union club that had existed since 1877. In July 1880 the Athletics club amalgamated with the local Clarence rugby club [...]
The History of Kettering
Posted in The History of... on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No14 Kettering Christ. Where to start? Fucking Klattering, the dirtiest, most cynical, biggest bunch of divers and cheats to (dis)grace a football field since Accrington Fucking Stanley. Actually, Accrington were worse – but they had an excuse, being a bunch of fucking pig ignorant Northerners from the crappiest [...]
The History of Hayes
Posted in The History of... on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No12 Hayes and Harlington Hayes and Harlington were set up in 2007 when the Heathrow baggage handlers decided that it would be nice to play some football in between coffee breaks and strikes. There was a precedent for this with most other big airports around the country having [...]
The History of Grimsby Town
Posted in The History of... on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No11 Grimsby Town Grimsby are by far the biggest club ever to (dis)grace the Vauxhall Conference. That said, the football club famously don’t play in the fishing village of Grimsby, rather they play in the holiday resort of Cleethorpes. Sort of a Northern West Wittering, if you will, [...]
Oxford wine about drinks break
Posted in General Bollocks on March 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
You know the story. Stevenage player goes down holding his leg, physio comes on and the rest of the team pop off for a quick drink. It’s now made national news. Complete cunt and part-time Sesame street character Jim Rosenthal said: “Exactly the same thing happened at their ground a couple of weeks ago. That’s [...]
The History of Gateshead
Posted in The History of... on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No10 Gateshead Gateshead is a suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. Newcastle is yet another one of those anonymous towns just off the dreary bit of the M6. Stoke, Tamworth, Crewe and Stafford are all nearby and all these places are much of a muchness in terms of being [...]
The History of Fleetwood Mac
Posted in The History of... on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No9: Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood is a tiny fishing village in the Fylde area of Lancashire. To get there, simply follow the signs off the M6 to Morcomb and follow the smell of fish. The club was formed in 1997 and thus has no history whatsoever. The club have [...]
Oxford 1-2 Stevenage
Posted in Shite Match Reports on March 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Electricians of Oxford will be on overtime today as thousands of fuses blew during Stevenage’s win at the Kassam Stadium. A goal in each half from Owen Goal and Craig Reid was enough to see Boro take the three points back to Broadhall Way. Damien Batt had been dropped again by Wilder, for being shite, [...]
The History of Forest Green Rovers
Posted in The History of... on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No8 Forest Green Rovers Forest Green is a small hamlet in East Sussex, not far from Rusper and south of Dorking. It is the second smallest centre of population to have a club in the Vauxhall Conference. To get to it, head down the B roads south of [...]
