Ian King

I definitely have an article about me about how all non league fan bases are the same these days

A yellow and green flag with "FLAG" printed across it, in front of a green wheelie bin.

You're getting something printed on a flag? This is the acceptable way of doing it.

As an aside, if football fans could stop getting flags with "Loyally we follow", "Proudly we serve", or other variations of this peculiar sentence structure printed on them, I'd be grateful. I don't know why it annoys the hell out of me, but it does.

The Weekend Match: Horsham 1-2 Southend United - Wrong Coat Saturday With a packed ground and a club just a couple of rounds from their first ever Wembley trip, rumours of the death of the FA Trophy may have been slightly over-exaggerated.

Morning loves. There'll be a full weekend review up on UD this evening. In the meantime, I was off to Horsham for some hot FA Trophy action vs Southend last weekend, where my small contribution to the day was having the muddiest boots in the ground.

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No one who's tipped me recently, please. Within two weeks is still in the birthday window.

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The Weekend Match: Horsham 1-2 Southend United - Wrong Coat Saturday With a packed ground and a club just a couple of rounds from their first ever Wembley trip, rumours of the death of the FA Trophy may have been slightly over-exaggerated.

Your weekend match is here. Horsham vs Southend United in the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy. Nearly but not quite, for the home team.

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It's fine, I made it, only with muddier boots than I was expecting

Yellow triangular sign with an angry looking bull Below it reads "Bull in field"

This'll be fine, sure, of course it'll be fine. I'm sure it'll be fine.

One day historians will reflect on how Premier League clubs were given every financial advantage that a football club could have yet still managed to end up hundreds of millions of pounds in debt.

Tuesday, June 16 • Group G: Iran vs New Zealand, kick-off 2am - Los Angeles, USA

I’m sure everything will be sorted out by then.

YouTube video by Just Leeds - steakandsid British Football's Terrace Wars - Chip Van Riot at Odsal Stadium- Leeds United Casuals 20/09/1986

I need to write about this one day, one of the absolute worst

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It is, you're right, let me change that. Having an early morning moment there.

Match of the Past: 31st January 1987 - Baby, It's Cold Outside It's FA Cup 4th Round day in 1987, and the BBC have highlights from three matches played on a very cold afternoon indeed.

These are usually for paying subs only, but at the end of each month they're free for all. Time to go back to the end of January 1987's FA Cup 4th Round, where it's cold, unless you happen to be from Coventry (or to a lesser extent Wimbledon/Everton).

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My inclination is to feel that expecting coherence from them is chasing up a blind alley.

Last one. I don't like posting about politics. But one message from a constituency with a large Muslim populace electing a woman plumber from a party with a gay jewish leader *might* be that everyone is sick of the attempts to divide us. Just a thought.

It's a pretty damning indictment of the state of politics in this country that so many people who just aren't very good at politics have ended up being the Prime Minister

WHAT IF PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO TRY A LEFT WING GOVERNMENT AFTER HAVING BEEN LET DOWN BY SUCCESSIVE RIGHT WING ONES FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS, MISTER KEITH?

Colour me shocked to the core to find that they've learnt the principle sum of fuck-all from this

Ooooh, enjoy them! It took about 20 minutes for me to stop thinking I was living inside a fisheye camera lens, but since then, gamechanger.

The least believable part of this is the possibility that he might not be a virgin.

"THIS ISN'T THE MANCHESTER I KNOW"

This tweet is the reason why I'm unable to think of Trevor Francis in any other way than wearing a party hat

Bring me back some sharia law!

John Thaw, actor best known for his role as Inspector Morse, was born in West Gorton

I'm claiming yes :-)

Words & Pictures to Follow: Horsham vs Southend United - Two Rounds From Wembley Horsham have never been to Wembley before, but on Saturday they have an opportunity to make their first trip there as FA the Trophy reached the quarter-finals.

Off to Horsham for their FA Trophy quarter final against Southend United this weekend, lads.

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I repeat:

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There's a town in New Mexico that changed its name to "Truth or Consequences" after a radio quiz show on the promise that they'd broadcast an episode from there, so I'd respectfully suggest that if you're staying in that glass house, you put down the stones.

Waking up to some good news is a rare old treat, isn't it?

The Football Kickback: In Jagerbomb Veritas Jack Grealish, suspenders and the growing CRISIS at Spurs headline this week's podcast.

This week's podcast is upon us.

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