Oliver Ash

@priceoffootball.bsky.social 3Up from National League to EFL would have happened years ago except, as an ex-EFL boss told me, the NL board had no credibility and were not taken seriously. The ‘GateMoney’ scandal of 2021/22 showed the NL board still lack integrity and, as a result, any credibilty…

One year on 💛🖤

27 January, the first anniversary of the greatest football match I have ever watched, Ipswich v Maidstone, FA Cup 4th Rd. Privileged to watch it with family, friends and 5000 fellow supporters at Portman Rd. A day of pure joy. Simply unforgettable.
@maidstoneunited.bsky.social 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤

A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country.

We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

Well that was a cold miserable night in Oyonnax, tough watching Brive lose again after an injury to a key player after 10 seconds and a very harsh early sending-off…. Hope my trip to @maidstoneunited.bsky.social v Worthing on Saturday is more fruitful…

Winning ugly can be the sign of a good team 😏

Great to see George Elokobi developing into a top manager for @maidstoneunited.bsky.social . What a run we are now on following on from last season’s FA Cup heroics! So much hard work needed to get us to this position, as we also look to strengthen the squad to up our challenge for the title 💛🖤

Desperate times for the UK economy. Will it take bankruptcy before we admit that leaving our closest trading partners was a colossal mistake costing us 4% of annual GDP and needs to be reversed sooner rather than later? After 8 years all Brexit has given us is a huge headache…

Shame no video highlights of Tonbridge v @maidstoneunited.bsky.social Boxing Day match, especially given a spectacular Aaron Blair goal…would not be the case if, as with most clubs, we could have been given space to film too…

In 2025 I will be posting more on here and less on X, fed up feeding the mad Musk machine…..thanks for following 😊

If only he’d stick to wrecking his own country…

Big shout out to the @stoneslive team, Sean and Adrian that was terrific commentary yesterday in trying circumstances, much appreciated by the exiles 👏👏👏💛🖤

Terrific @maidstoneunited result after the long trip to Cornwall, congrats to players and staff, all the hard work starting to pay off 👏👏👏💛🖤

Common denominator/ elephant in the room in the middle East crisis is religion, extreme belief systems poison everything

🎄 They say you shouldn’t do things by half but on this occasion you can. Digital half season tickets are available online.

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Starting from the Welling United match on New Year’s Day, your membership will give you access to a dozen games at the Gallagher.

This bunch of self-destructive, bureaucratic Labour fools are heading the same way as Biden….wake up and smell the coffee pleeeeaase…

…while drunk

But he us trying to find a democratic centrist from the left! He just refuses to bow down to the loonies from LFI who would reverse most of his policies and smash up the country

Was always likely to happen with the extreme parties’ holding the majority, despite Barnier being one of the most decent, honest, competent politicians you could find to run the country…

That could be my manifesto!

@maidstone Our lovely new town centre matchday information totem temporarily obscured by a Christmas tree….🫢

Sure, just send me £10 million 😁

A few years ago I was proud of our South Stand development at Brive but the new North Stand and its facilities is way above, genuinely international class, brilliant design and decoration, great for the fans 👏👏👏@CABCLRUGBY .

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So disappointing. Every chance Starmer gets to make a real difference he flunks. Arms to Israel, closer ties to Europe, breaking the grip of media oligarchs, etc….if Labour carries on like this it will be smashed by Reform/Tories next election

Thanks Dave, the Twitter world has become very toxic, people want instant pleasure and believe they are entitled to it. Reality says that for every winner of a football match there is a loser. I now wish to concentrate on friendly voices and ignore others…

Thanks Paul, frankly the memory of talking to happy fans in July 2012 is what keeps me going! Until we find the right people to take over the club and recognise its value and importance we will do our best and try to make as few mistakes as possible while being prudently ambitious!

Game’s gone soft since I watched this as a kid….
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The bots and trolls trying to make a noise here too 🤡

3. Aiming to become a well-run, asset-rich, debt-free business in order to attract durable, new investment and sponsorship.

‘Ambitious’ is a misused and abused word in football, much like ‘sustainable’ is. Beware of football club recklessness disguised as ambition…

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