Thanks to Nat for the excellent – and wordy! – report from the City Ground and apologies for taking two days to post it up. — A game from which before its kick-off Bluenoses would’ve been looking for three points and a handsome scoreline to boot, ended up convulsing into a fraught escapade where we
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I had been promised a match preview by a well known and often well liked member of the Joys & Sorrows forum. So far it hasn’t arrived and as I type this, it’s 5 AM in the UK*. He’d better be up doing it or have a written note from his mother as to why
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As you may or may not have noticed from my writing thus far, I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Which is often bad because I end up just standing there and not doing much cleaning whilst my mind wanders from subject to subject without realising that I’m wasting precious and valuable water.
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As I said in my last blog, I’m going to skip over Queens Park Rangers. We lost to a side that I’ve been telling everyone had been the worst side to visit St Andrew’s this season, we lost to a side with 10 men, we lost to a side that we really should have troubled
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To be authentic in the new approach to the blog, I had wanted to start blogging about Blues and life as an exiled Bluenose from the moment I touched down in Australia. This hasn’t strictly been possible although that said, Blues didn’t play until today – my second morning in the country. From memory, I
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