Fred Atkins

- Alex's Corner on Maidstone going top of the form table
- Alan Thatcher's Non-League round-up
- Sean Scurr on the Stones' Women's FA Cup journey
- Cover design by our Vietnamese Supporters Club
- General bitterness in the gossip column

- Steve Watt on local derbies, initiation songs and looking after players
- Slough report and reaction
- The Stones Quiz: 10 players (out of many) who've played for Maidstone and Tonbridge

Edition 12 is out now on our website:
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Tomorrow's front cover.

PLUS: Women's FA Cup preview
Alex's Corner: When admins go rogue
Alan Thatcher's non-league round-up
The Stones Quiz: the 1989-90 season
Gossip, rumour and schadenfreude at the back.

Available now: Reports from Farnbrough & Eastbourne
Steve Watt on the upturn in form, tactics at corners and what it was like working for Glenn Tamplin
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PLUS: Women's FA Cup preview
Alex's Corner: When admins go rogue
Alan Thatcher's non-league round-up
The Stones Quiz: the 1989-90 season
Gossip, rumour and schadenfreude at the back.

Available now: Reports from Farnbrough & Eastbourne
Steve Watt on the upturn in form, tactics at corners and what it was like working for Glenn Tamplin
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Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

We pick over the Chesham game, preview MUFC women v Tunbridge Wells Foresters.
Alan Thatcher rounds up the latest non-league news.
And the Stones Quiz is "guess the year".

Edition 10 of The Back Page is out now.
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We deal, sensitively, with the news on Jamar Loza.
Steve Watt talks red cards and tells us you'd never catch him going in two-footed - he'd have been cleverer about it.

Featuring Disinformation in Dagenham; FA Cup History for Maidstone's Women; Steve Watt on wonder goals, organisers and celebrations; Herne Bay Watch; and The Stones Quiz, which this week is on world-class players who've played against us.

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Out tomorrow.

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Edition 8 is now online.
Featuring The Top 10 Stones games.
The Steve Watt Column: "If you threw a beer at me I'd probably drink it..."
The Stones Quiz - Gallagher firsts.
Alan Thatcher's round-up.
And what could be a lively trip to East London ...
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Edition 8 is now online.
Featuring The Top 10 Stones games.
The Steve Watt Column: "If you threw a beer at me I'd probably drink it..."
The Stones Quiz - Gallagher firsts.
Alan Thatcher's round-up.
And what could be a lively trip to East London ...
thestonesbackpage.co.uk

Frasier/Charlie Brown mash up with Frasier in Lucy's Psychiatry booth

Peanuts/Dr Strange mash up, I can't remember why

My old Charlie Brown missing the football and landing in a bleeding lump cartoon

Happy 75th Birthday Peanuts

Fuck that.

Edition 6 of the online magazine covering Maidstone United:
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Edition 6 out on Friday:

This week's edition of The Back Page is online: an attempt to do local sports journalism slightly differently.
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This week's edition of The Back Page is online: an attempt to do local sports journalism slightly differently.
No paywall, no clickbait, no sanity-sapping banner adverts.
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Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

I see all the media organisations endlessly parroting the "free speech under threat" rhetoric of the right are now staying completely silent as Reform and the Conservatives openly ban news outlets that criticise them from covering their events
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Edition 5 out Friday: Wasted in Worthing, The Weston in Weston, Folkestone Retro and Chelmsford in the Premier League.

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Edition 4 is out now Totton, Chelmsford reports and reaction
Alex's Corner: Penalty Pain
The Vault: Southwick, Stardom and Steggall
The Stones Quiz: Rivals
Editorial: "And all I can say is bullshit."
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