Thame United 4-2 Hertford Town ( att : 88 ) – 2025/26 Southern League Division One Central

An entertaining game on Tuesday as Thame United beat Hertford Town 4-2
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South Korea 3-0 Iran ( att : 2,874 ) – 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup

An entertaining game yesterday in the Asian Women's Cup between South Korea and Iran, with most of the headline being about the Iranian team not signing their national anthem.

Here is a report on the match
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Last night's match between Thame United and Welwyn Garden City was not a good advert for football at step 4. Low on quality and high on cynicism and gamesmanship.

Here is a report
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An impressive performance by Doncaster Knights saw them achieve a 36-19 at Chinnor on Friday night.

Here is a report :
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Oxford City hosted Marine yesterday in an important NLN fixture, but fell to a disappointing 0-2 defeat

Here is a report :
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How To Watch Foreign Football Highlights ( and Live Matches ) From The UK For Free

Fatbear has lovingly updated his "How To Watch Foreign Football Highlights ( and Live Matches ) From The UK for Free" to include some recent changes for this season !

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Once Upon A Time/The Singles Siouxsie And The Banshees were media darlings in the early stages of their career, with almost weekly updates on their activities in the New...

Siouxsie And The Banshees' "Once Upon A Time/The Singles" contains 10 of their early songs.

Listening to this collection again, I was surprised by how good these songs still sound !
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Rush - Spirit Of Radio This is not an album, but a 12 inch single !  I think I opted for the 12 inch as this was the full length album version at nearly 5 minute...

Spirit of Radio was the first ( and only ) UK Top 20 single by Rush. Here is Fatbear's review

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An fantastic game between Thame United and Flackwell Heath yesterday with Thame coming back from 0-3 to lead 4-3 at half-time.

The second half was entertaining despite no further goals, and Thame held on to win
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A very impressive performance yesterday by Hartpury to beat Chinnor in awful weather
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A report on Saturday's hard fought 1-1 draw between Thame United and Barton Rovers
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A tense game today between Oxford City and AFC Fylde. City grabbed a much needed 1-0 win over the team in 2nd place to move out of the bottom 4

Here is a report :
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A cracking game this evening at Kingsey Road as Chinnor came close to recording an upset win against 100% league leaders Ealing Trailfinders
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Chinnor's impressive form in the 2nd tier of English rugby continued today, with a deserved victory over second placed Bedford Blues.

Here is a report :
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The 2025/26 Albanian football season resumed this week Round 19 of the 2025/26 Kategoria Superiore. Here is a review of the game between Partizani and Vora

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A dramatic end to today's NLN match between Oxford City and Buxton today, with 2 goals in added on time.

Here is a report
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When I started reading I thought it was Ukrainians in the UK who were without power after Storm Goretti.......

And the New Salamis in England

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Todd Rundgren's Hermit Of Mink Hollow was regarded as a return to form when released in 1978.

Listening again now, it didn't sound as great, but there are still some very good songs, and there isn't a bad track on the album.

Here is a review

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Come on, lots of step 5 defenders play like rugby players ! Fortunately, the ref called it off 15 minutes before the kick-off so there was more time to have some pints !!

Chinnor v Bedford Rugby is on !

Fatbear got up early to watch the Colwyn Bay vs Flint Town United match on S4C. Flint had Flint in goal, a player returning from AFCON, and 2 C Ferguson's on the bench. Bay had 2 A Williams.

Here is a report :
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An entertaining game from AFCON25 today as Mozambique beat Gabon 3-2 for the first ever win at AFCON in their 6th appearance in the Finals

Here is a report :
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A curate's egg of a match today between Thame United and Leverstock Green, which was mostly mundane and mediocre, with four goals of the highest quality

Here is a report
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Power In The Darkness was a great debut album from the Tom Robinson Band but the follow-up TRB2 showed they were running out of ideas and good material, and were almost becoming a Chas N' Dave tribute act.

Here is a review :
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Boxing Day is the chance to renew old rivalries so today it was Oxford City vs err....Welsh Side Merthyr Town !

Here is a report on the game :
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Tom Robinson Band - Power In The Darkness Even before signing with a record label, the Tom Robinson Band was receiving plenty of favourable reviews in the music press and building ...

Released in 1978, Power In The Darkness by Tom Robinson Band remains a great listen whilst being a powerful commentary on the times in which it was written.

Whilst some of the themes are a little dated now, many of them are still relevant today.
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Mali 1-1 Zambia ( att : 5,000 est ) – 2025 Africa Cup Of Nations

All the games at AFCON25 are being shown free-to-air in the UK somewhere on the Channel 4 network

Here is a report on this afternoon's match between Mali and Zambia
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R.E.M's 7th album Out Of Time consolidated their status as one of the most important bands on the planet when it was released in 1991.

Listened to it again now, it was much better than I remembered !

Here is a review :
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