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Writing on football culture, history, finance and more. Click to read Unexpected Delirium, by Ian King, a Substack […] [bridged from https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/unexpecteddelirium.substack.com ]

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Gary O'Neil's rejection of Wolves is a damning indictment of the way that club is being run It feels unusual to be writing about the same club twice in a row on here, but the situation regarding the new Wolves manager is too interesting to pass by.
04.11.2025 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wolves have dug themselves into a hole that they may find difficult to extricate themselves from Sacking your manager six and half weeks after giving him a new contract doesn't seem like good business, but joined-up thinking seldom seems to be the Wolves owners' strong suit.
02.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match: Broadbridge Heath 4-1 VCD Athletic - Pathetic Fallacy Romantic poetry at this particular point in my life feels like a sick joke, but I can't resist the temptation to lean back into my teenage optimism.
02.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Word & Pictures to Follow: Broadbridge Heath vs VCD Athletic - Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Just to the west of the Sussex market town of Horsham is a village that is the birthplace of Percy Shelley and the home of a non-league football club. It's time to mangle our metaphors again.
31.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the Curtain: The Avoidant Trap There are a lot of people out there for whom emotional intimacy is their biggest fear, yet they may not even know this themselves. Here's how it works.
29.10.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Football Kickback: Burning Out and No Alternatives Almost entirely unedited this week, friends. The only football podcast that freely promotes the extent to which we don't want to talk about football.
28.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Single Parenthood & I: The Great British Cake-Off I'm not incompetent in the kitchen, but baking is a science and I was crap at science when I was at school. It's time to face down those demons and get a goddam cake baked.
27.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They're All Wednesday, Aren't They? Sheffield Wednesday are now under the care of administrators, in an example of how fans can control the narrative of a failing football club
27.10.2025 07:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match: Cray Wanderers 0-2 Dartford - Pierced on Their Own Soil It's a local derby betwen two teams near the top of the table, so why is the atmosphere so flat? Maybe it's the dinosaurs that lurk nearby.
26.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Cray Wanderers vs Dartford - Kentish Men & Not-Quite-Kentish Men I've studiously avoided south-east London and the vast grey area where it turns to Kent, this last couple of years, but if it was good enough for Napoleon Bonaparte, surely it's good enough for me.
24.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Football Kick: On the Subject of the Death of Leonid Brezhnev Just the 15 minutes before we get onto the subject of football this week, friends, but we know you're all okay with that.
23.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the Curtain: A Celebration of Younger I worry, at times, that I connect with my two kids in different ways, so here's a celebration of the one that often gets overlooked.
22.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Siding with the hooligans is on brand for a government that seems determined to trash its reputation The government's handling of the upcoming Aston Villa Europa League match reeks of a degree of incompetence for which they are now rightly known.
21.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match: Arundel 2-1 AFC Uckfield Town - Issues With Depth Perception If I can't keep them entertained with football, the presence of a very big castle is enough to get my kids excited for a trip to Arundel. Happy to oblige. Just don't expect me to draw it.
19.10.2025 07:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Arundel vs AFC Uckfield Town - 50 Minutes to Travel Ten Miles We're back in Sussex this weekend, for an opportunity to combine some mediocre football with staring at a castle from the outside.
17.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Single Parenthood & I: The Invisible String That Connects Us There's a children's book in our house which has taught me more about how to see the world and interpersonal relationships than any self-help book ever could.
15.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Football Kickback: International Break Readers Questions Special This week, we've got dogging (not for the first time), angling (definitely for the first time) and the circumstances under which I'd pay £30 to watch a non-league match in a readers questions special.
14.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match: Slough Town 3-2 Enfield Town: Come, Friendly Bombs Enfield Town have reached this stage of the FA Cup on three previous occasions, but have never gone further. And that'll have to wait another year after an eventful afternoon in Berkshire.
12.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Slough Town vs Enfield Town - The Dawn of a New Era? New Enfield have failed to achieve something that Old Enfield managed with regularity, so we're off to Berkshire to see if they can break that particular hex.
11.10.2025 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the Curtain: A Decision-Making Process As many of you will know, I do a match for this place every Saturday. And there's a method behind my decision-making process over which to attend. So, since someone asked, here's what that process is.
09.10.2025 06:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Football Kickback: He Walks on Water Ange and Nottingham Forest, Harry Kane, and Jack Grealish's pursuit of happiness all feature on this week's Football Kickback.
07.10.2025 06:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Three Months at Best, Three Weeks at Worst; The Unravelling of Nottingham Forest Yes, there was a tail-off last season, but after two games Forest were looking okay. Then they lost at home to West Ham and since then all hell has broken loose.
06.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match - Wealdstone 1-1 Altrincham: The day the dam broke I'd been lying to myself for months, and I didn't even realise. But this week it came flooding out of me and I feel a million times better for it, even though my future will be laced with poignancy.
05.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Words & Pictures to Follow: Wealdstone vs Altrincham - Back to the 80s Two of the most important football names of my childhood are meeting in London this afternoon, so off to north-west London it is.
04.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Graham Potter was a symptom of West Ham United's lack of identity Graham Potter was the worst possible managerial appointment for West Ham, but this was unsurprising, considering that the club itself seems to have mislaid its soul.
03.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the Curtain: Broken keys, and trying to do the right thing What happens when you're self-employed and your entire office breaks? You have to get in contact with the DWP, and that's always likely to raise your anxiety levels.
02.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Football Kickback: The Haunted Owl It's time for your weekly Football Kickback, this week featuring North London, LinkedIn managers, and a not unreasonable amount of Manchester United.
01.10.2025 06:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All aboard the Manchester United rollercoaster again Less than seven days after beating Chelsea, Manchester United fell into a familiar trap at Brentford, meaning that a familiar cycle is starting for the 8000th time.
30.09.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Weekend Match: Enfield Town A-A Quorn - Show, Don't Tell It had been a fairly successful afternoon out until we were smacked in the face with a reminder that somethings really are more important than football.
28.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Word & Pictures to Follow: Enfield Town vs Quorn - North London is Ours It's not very often I have the kids at the weekend, these days, and they've been asking a *lot* of questions recently.
26.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0