An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No19 Rushden and Diamonds A man sits on a bench at the side of a non descript road in a featureless area of the country. A sign 100 yards further up the road reads “Welcome to Irthlingborough, twinned with nowhere”. The man is sitting still, not moving, not [...]
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The History of Rushden and Diamonds
Posted in The History of... on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The History of Newport County
Posted in The History of... on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No18 Newport County There’s a quiz question that is often used around pubs and clubs which is to ask what the five cities in Wales are. The answer, for those of you interested in such things is Cardiff, Swansea, St David’s, Bangor and Rhyl. There’s another, older, quiz [...]
The History of Mansfield
Posted in The History of... on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference. No17 Mansfield Town The question is, “What the fuck are Mansfield doing in the Vauxhall Conference?” You see, Mansfield were never one of the typical Football League U-Bend Cloggee Clubs of yore, like Rochdale or Hartlepool. Mansfield seemed to exist quite happily alternating between the third and fourth [...]
The History of Luton Town
Posted in The History of... on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
