I would appreciate it set in stone, although I didnt realise I was up for the goal of the season, no one has mentioned it to me...

I'll be at training tomorrow, although a train ride will be necessary. Broke my football boots at 6 a side on Tuesday so Ill be falling all over the place in my trainers. Might even do a slide tackle if Im lucky.

The chinese restaurant is called Furama. Lewis was in the queue for risa which went past the outside the restaurant, and was pissing about, so someone threw him into the chinese. The owner found it funny, locked the door and got women to try to rip his clothes off....God Bless Reading...

...and for the last time, yes those effing dates are set in effing stone. Do you want me to actually set them in stone? Do you? I can, I can go down to that weird place near Hungerford and get them to effing sculpt it. It will be those dates even if it's just me and John Sills there (he will move heaven and earth to make it due to his expectations of goal of the season victory).

What was the name of this Indian in Reading and why did Lewis get thrown in somewhere for a change?

Yes, hope to everyone, black or white, old or young. We need more religious values in this team. I feel a change in tack for training on Thursdays. Come on Frewy, sing...

Sounds like a good shout. Ive been very busy so thats why I haven't been on here.
Looking forward to 5 a side tonight, come on the shefford in Henly.
So are we set on thses dates for Newquay and presentation evening. Any ideas on what we are doing for it?
There is a really nice indian Restaruant in Reading that Dave Lewis got chucked in to last time. Then we all got kicked out the queue at Bar Risa.

Hope to everyone soon, should be at training on Thursday so I will see you all then.

I'm feeling really sorry for Ranieri so I'm thinking of getting him in to be Shefford FC Director of Football. Any objections?

Surely, right, if Wolves had thought about it a bit, they knew they wouldn't be able to stay up , at least from about Christmas, so if they just made sure they didn't foul anyone, they could be in Europe next season, compensating for the lost revenue from dropping out of the Premiership?

I think the Blogger format is quite prohibitive which is why it's been quite quiet recently, plus not much going on either. Really looking forward to Euro 2004 now, even if I don't really believe England are going to do all that well. I think we can do, just don't really believe we will do. But that was my attitude about Shefford the season we won the league...

It all depends, depends if clubs apply or not. Villa didnt apply, and i dont think Charlton did either. I know Fulham and Bolton were going to apply but I havent heard if they have to places or not.

So in conclusion, I dont know.

And where the fu*k is everyone else?!

So who gets that backdoor into Europe then? Or nobody?

And you can all go and look at this, you fookers...


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Looks like we should have quite a good squad together for next season then if Newport and Colin are back. On a personal note, I am absolutly delighted that there will be a lot of competition in Midfield again...!

Cracking night last night for Crabbemans party, he was wrecked by about 8pm, Chanting / shouting etc throughout the comedians (who were bloody funny, although one of them was the same as last time), then lewis gave his underwear to a hen party whilst Dave got his chest kissed as it was hairy. Lots more stuff to report, but quite frankly i cant be arsed....

Ive heard that Stevey played well from a number of sources now so I guess its not a joke. Hopefully if he keeps doing 6-a-side with us on Tuesdays and trains on Thursdays he can improve a lot.

good training last night, best I've seen Stevie Tab play I think, he was getting stuck in and everything. My legs seized up in the car on the way to work this morning, resulting in a comedy-walk across the car park in front of all the lovely ladies in the office. Bugger.

Some good news, Colin was back last night and some more good news so was Andy Newport. Both need the cobwebs blown off em but it was great to see em back even if Newy did flatten me and then appear to enjoy it so much he spent the rest of the match trying to do it again...

No probs, at least the quality of footy will be better if you're out with Cat.

Colin's even coming along tonight. And after all the great weather we've had this week, you just know it's gonna be pissing it down by 7pm...

Hmmm, ok.

Devastating news im afriad. I wont be coming to training tonight, it is Cats last exam so im going out with her drinking. Shocking I know. But I think that is a better excuse than crabbeman, who is going on a double date with a guy he barely knows and two girls (twins, not identical) he met when pissed on sat.

On a more positive note, credit to frew, who is coming training despite being Fu**ing ugly.

Well, "meant" is a very strong word. I "meant" to score, if that's what you mean, but did I "mean" to put it powerfully daisy-cutting into the bottom right hand corner of the net, giving the keeper no chance whatsoever even if it had been David Seaman? The answer, is yes.

You wont get close enough Paul. And Shane, are you saying that one against Long Wittenham was meant to go there?!

2562 posts and counting...

We are indeed. can everyone get to Vicky park for 7pm? Can't leave it too late to start cos the sun goes down... Looking forward to it, haven't kicked a football since the friendly against the southampton lot, and haven't kicked one straight since the Long Whittenham game.

Its been far to quiet on the blogger recently! I spent today at the Worldwide HSBC head quaters at Canary Wharf, we managed to get up to the top and sneak into the board room, where I sat in the Chief Exec's chair and looked down on London...

So are we training on Thursday? I think we should, Im getting fat...

If that's the 23rd u r talking about, fraid I can't make it, at a wedding in Plymouth. No u can't all come with me.

Genghis you are a dog

cool u got my email address - ta for your votes

Shane, can you give me your e-mail address and what you need me to vote for.

Well that's good news about the pitch then - means we're not too out of pocket, though personally I'd have thought it would be more expensive to hire astro-turf than it is to hire grass, but there you go.

Next Thursday, 7pm, Vicky Park, not pre-season training yet so no pressure if you can't make it any night, not fighting for squad places yet. However I would like to do some gentle warm up and then stretches before we launch straight into a game as I want everyone stretchy and agile for next season.

Not hearing any "can't make those dates" comments from anyone, so consider them set. If anyone speaks to Paul, Neil or Beeny can you remind them I need their votes...

Im off to Highbury on Saturday for an all day party with the Champions. Rang up the membership line today, found out Im number 2000 of 40000 on the season ticket waiting list, better start saving...

Those dates are good mate, can you confirm ASAP, as I need to book that Friday off work.

Crabbeman those guys are wankers, no two ways about it. Luckily, this is no reflection on you, who are indeed a fine upstanding young man, but if you could pass on to the wankers that I think they are wankers, I'd be most grateful. They were lucky Genghis had the balls to accept their money, do the decent thing and play the game, cos if I'd been there they'd have had a wasted journey and I'd have made a right knob out of myself. Grrr.

Is everyone okay for those dates or does anyone have any serious problems with them? I'll have to warn you, if it's a majority then we may have to go with it anyway, so see what you can do about work/other commitments first. To all intents and purposes, those are solid dates, confirmed and written in quick-drying cement...

Should point out that I set up two of those goals...

All dates are fine for the presentation/newquay events, booked off the 30th from work today as 'Study Leave'...just a matter of what I'll be studying...

July 10th for Presentation Evening

30th July for Newquay

Shane any possibilty of letting us know confirmed dates for presentation night and weekend away.
And i think you should make the Reading Scum pay for the 30 quid that we were ripped off by their fellow townies.
Failing that set Hilly on them

They shouldn't give you stick for using a blogger at work - it's cheaper than a personal phone call, takes up much less time and you don't smoke so you're already at least 20 minutes up per day on anyone in the office who nips out for fag breaks. Plus it enables you to keep in touch with essential information about your main hobby, providing you with excellent work-life balance, which in turn keeps you motivated and switched on during work hours. Therefore by occasionally blogging, you are remaining a happy and motivated worker, always at your desk ready to answer phone calls and respond to work requests. As long as you don't abuse this privelege, there is absolutely no problem at all with visiting a blog during work time.

Crap init this new blog set up, but then a blog isn't really meant to be used as a message board like this, so I guess we can let them off a little bit.

Well done Dave, they only paid half of what they should have done, but at least you smacked one of em. Glad to hear Cold Ash didn't win everything as well. All sorts of rumours around about clubs folding or merging etc, so it'll just have to be the AGM before we have any idea about the set up of the divisions for next season. Pretty confident we'll be in Div One again though, have to be something pretty remarkable for them to promote 4 clubs again so soon after doing it last time.

Beeny, Neil and Paul I'm waiting on your votes, need 1-3 for Players Player, 1-3 for Most Improved, 1-3 for Clubman and your selection for goal of the season...

I wish I'd gone to watch Cold Ash's cup final instead... They lost 3-2 to Hermitage ha ha ha!!

The money wasn't collected until after the game so I suppose they could pay what they wanted. I thought they were pretty shite and we should have/could have thrashed them on a normal pitch with a lot more effort.

We didn't score but Dave had 1853 shots, 0 passes and ran a grand total of 10 meters and complained he was tired afterwards!!

Jonny S and Crab didn't a lot of running, slightly less than me I'd say, so it was ok for fitness. Adam and Frew were probably our MOTM's. I think Frew is looking a half decent replacement for Smurf when/if he ever retires.

All in all it still cost us £30, which really wasn't worth it.

The Blogger format isnt great, but at least it lets you see who the commment is from and the first few words before you read it, so if I see Smurf has put a post on, I wont have to bother reading the whole thing.

Might as well get training, although it doesnt feel like the season has ended now, which is ironic as it never really felt like it started...

Dates for presentation evening...?

They only gave us £30??? What bit about "It'll be £60" didn't they understand? Fucking hell. All that and we didn't even score a goal, great for morale these friendlies eh? Everyone up for starting Thursday evenings at Vicky Park again next THursday?

Paul - You would have spent most the match telling there no, 7 he's a cunt- making things worse!! Although he was.

I agree with the new format, it's shite. Makes it more obvious to people that look at my screen that I'm not working.

John, that made the game sound better than it was. And I actually played, left wing, left back, right wing and centre back.

Shane, you made the right decision not to come.

Genghis, are you gonna put match reports on the website?

Thought I'd do you a quick Match report Boss...

We turned up, Jacko told us that we couldnt play on grass so had to play on the astro. Half the players went home again to get trainers. We finally got changed (Genghis, in a moment of inspiration, decided to drive back home to get his trainers, but not take the kit out of his car first...) and wandered out to the astro. Team was as usual with Browny at right midfield and Adam at left back. Frew was in goal, having turned up late after getting lost twice driving to Henwick, although originally he was driving to Northcroft.

Kick off was about 11am, with the Shefford boys passing it around nicely and finding holes in the Forest defence, coming close on a number of occasions. The game warmed up when this twat on their team squared up to Genghis, which prompted Lewis to wander over and quietly enquire what he was doing. The guy in question got a slap from Dave, probably because he was wearing jogging bottoms (worryingly, Tony seemed very keen to find out 'how big and hard his is when he takes his trousers off...). He got sent off for a bit, Lewis didnt.

They scored when a corner went back out to the win, this shit midfielder put a looping mis hit cross into the box, over Frews head and it was bundled in. Steve Tab came on.

Second half saw many changes, I went to the left wing, Browny to left back, Adam to the centre mid, Matty to right back (he had also played half the first half at right back...). Shefford dominated, winnning what seemed like 57 corners in a row, with shot after shot being kept out by their keeper (who Crabbeman had described as 'really shit' before the match, and told us to 'shoot whenever we get the chance because he is bollocks'). More corners followed, then somehow they scored. Im not sure how it happened, but I think it may have had something to do with Hilly going up front. Then they scored again. The fooker who had been sent off got the ball on the edge of the area and crossed it in. Go Figure.

Steve Tab came on.

The Shefford boys trooped off (at the final whistle, not because of Stevey), all in agreement that the opposition were a bunch of wankers who we wont bother playing again (they only gave us £30...), with Tony still wanting to see the guy without his trousers on, probably to see how he would stand up to the challange.

Yeah, they were protesting cos the referee allowed the opposition in their last game to play a 15 yr old boy. And that's not allowed in the U14's girls' league.

Genghis I'm just about to get on a cruise ship til tomorrow lunchtime so I won't be able to confirm any players for you. The people you need to contact are the Curtis boys, Hilly and Beeny, Colin, Adam, Dave Frew, Tony? and a goalkeeper...

Sorry I can't be more help, been a hell of a week.

Well at least we will score, although might need it to be windy. (Thought I might as well say it....)

Apparantly Tottenham played a french team in a friendly last night, but the french team played without a goalie for the match in protest at the referee or something. Tottenham lost 1-0. And missed a penalty.

Ghenghis its you,Sillsy and Crabbeman Good luck

Charming. Fu*king Charming. I thought it was the yellow line we were playing to on tuesday...and if we make it a narrow game Genghis will clear it out of play on both sides of the pitch!

Sod the lot of you any way, just booked a week's holiday in Fuerteventura, my summer fitness training camp....

Which 20% of the pitch haven't you booked? If you get two strips down the side then the lines shouldn't matter too much. Might make it quite a narrow game, then you don't even need Sillsy.

you could never extend my penis subtely mate, I've seen you try it on yourself. It's all yank yank yank... Japanese face hiyawww.....

Just felt like a bit of capital letter abuse. It was your talk21 address. Sorry for the penis extension emails, Julie asked me to try and do it subtely.

which email address are you using? if it's the shoddy mismanaged talk21 address then you're wasting your time cos it's rank and full up cos I got fed up of deleting all the junk about credit cards and penis extensions - how can I get a penis extension if I haven't got a credit card?

Anyway, use my work one as long as it's not pure porn you're sending me. I'll send you an email now so you have the address...

What's with the abuse of capital letters?

By the Way shane, When i Try TO SenD YoU aN EMail, It saYs That yoU ARe OvEr YouR Quota

Genghis has been trying to do a dot to dot with the pieces...

Well his response was clearly 'Yeah I play football, in the reading league...'

Yeah but he hasn't finished looking at the pictures of the Xmas formation.

No?

Genghis do you have my book? - the red one with all the team selections and MOTM results in and stuff?

Are you saying people in Reading are Rough?! I agree, 'cause im not from round these parts!

Reminds me of when I was in a pub couple of months ago, I met Cats friends new boyfriend, got chatting to him about football. I was saying about playing the the Newbury League, 'yeah, its much better than the Reading league apparantly, much more skill, and people actually want to play football rather than just kicking the sh*t out of each other and starting fights. Do you play football?'

I think we can all guess what his response was....

Yeah right, they've said that before and oh! surprise, no cash. I'll let Crabbeman know that unless they bring £60 with them on the day before kick off then there's to be no game, I'm not paying for that lot again - so let me know if and when you get a pitch booked. There must be more than one pitch bookable in Reading, so I'm feeling iffy about it.

I'll let Crabbeman know how much it's going to be in case they go "you wha? you f***ing t*** I'm not f***ing paying that f***ing much just for a f***ing game of f***ing footy you w*****. Go f*** yourself."

Or "We've only got f***ing £20 on us at the moment, borrow us til me f***ing gyro comes through. C***."

Softly softly catchy mousey.

Dunno why I said that.

If only he'd run out of stamps...

Similar to his childhood story then... His real Dad just whacked him in the post with England written on his forehead. Fortunately for Shefford FC the Thatcham post office couldn't afford to send him back to Mongolia, so kept him as a mascot. Obviously not realising he'd grow to be 9ft 8. Yes I'm bored.

Sorry Browny - I knew I had a midfielder down somewhere, but basically couldn't be arsed to work it out so just pressed Post and got on with my day.

Im available too, im not to sure weather we have confirmed a pitch for Sunday, Dave is supposed to be confirming it today? So i will let you all know tomorrow if I hear anything.

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We should still be able to get enough of a team together - does Nigel fancy an appearance in goal?

I reckon you'll get

Nigel
Paul
Tony
Frew
Genghis
Matt (though watch his back)
Crabbeman
Sillsy
Adam
Neil
Dave
Steve T
Colin?
Hilly?
Beeny?

So there's a good old squad there ready to play. Just needs a bit of communication. Good luck.

Um, I'm not. Sorry. But as Genghis is and he has the kit, he's in charge.

oi Sills i travel just as far as you to play on a sunday so shut it you cockney wannabe or we will force you to lick the inside of all of Ghengis's bandages plus we dont want to play as Reading is full of wankers

Im not happy about all these people saying they cant play, us lot in reading get up at the crack of dawn and travel miles twice a week to play in newbury, but whenever a match in reading is mentioned its always 'blah blah blah cant make it, got a sore toe, etc etc blah blah blah...' !!

Dont know what time kick off is, ill have a word with the crabbemister...

How's the new place Mr L?

Sorry can't make it on Sunday.

I cant play sunday im away for the weekend

Will there be anywhere safe to leave our cars?

Pencil me in for now. I might not play, want to rest my back as much as possible.

Anyone not available for a match on Sunday?

John Sills - do you know what time kick off etc?

Come on Pompey tonight....

So I assume we will have a nice big turnout in Reading this sunday for this friendly Crabbeman has organised? By my count, this is the 735th time Crabbeman has tried to get the match played, so it better be worth it!