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That's the second time that my AVG has bumped me off the site on arrival because it claims it detected malware. Should I believe it?

Tom Youngs is a Bury lad (Bury St Edmunds that is) who came through the youth ranks to make 151 appearances for the U's before eventually winding down his Football League career at Gigg Lane. A smart guy, with a degree in sports journalism, Tom was diagnosed with MS in 2015 and published his...

The rain held off at the test match just long enough to give me the excuse not to be heading up the A1 for a second weekend - even though it would be my first visit to Boundary Park and I'm already envisaging the stirring victory and celebratory pies that I'll be missing. We had different...

With both teams keen to continue their recent climb away from the relegation places, this one has score draw written all over it. Grimsby don't score much on the road and after a couple of clean sheets we're overdue a blooper so 1 - 1 in front of a decent crowd. I'm not aware of any special...

This local game (hardly a derby as we both have bigger fish to fry) should attract a decent crowd and atmosphere, especially now that the Financial Embarassment East Stand has some seats on it. Unfortunately a clash with the Kettering carnival (how could they allow that?) means that away...

Couldn't find JCC's Lights Out apart from on the full album at However, prompted by "Lights Out" from Snap, Crackle and Bop on a lazy Sunday morning, I offer 3 favourites recently played from my diverse vinyl collection. Plenty more classic and/or obscure options to choose from.

Pottering past our pond this afternoon, I saw my first snake of the year - hunting newts. It prompted me to consider broadening the appeal of this little corner of the web. When I saw that the Common Spotted Orchid (that I've been nurturing for a few years) had had at least nine babies, I felt...

I'll be showing my age here but the football season's over so......... Sting deserves no more than a mention coz I had a Makem "mate" who looked and sounded like him, with an ego to match. McCartney gets up my nose, always has. The Ox was definitely background but essential, as were many...

Since it looks like it'll be raining all day up that way, is there any chance it'll be off again?

Probably doesn't need it's own thread but we can crawl off into a corner and talk among ourselves whilst the big boys sort out the serious issues of relegation, play-offs, away ticket allocations and managerial moves - although we might get back to that. With coming of spring, the grass is...

I have always had a soft spot for the Robins, ever since the days of Don Rogers and Arthur Horsfield. Beggars can't be chosers - so they have my sympathy for falling into the clutches of that chancer, Power, and such a recent sequence of tossers for managers. That said, you can't fault Tango...

Lots of reasons to ignore this event until early saturday afternoon but getting back on the horse to see if I can manage Morecambe and CUFC away before spring is sprung. Got my ticket, first away match since first of the year (Colchester - why did I bother?). Momentum building to convert lower...

As everyone (except Coventry) seem so negative about the chance of a game on saturday, I thought I'd stick my head above the parapet. I think there's a good chance it will be on and for the first time in a while I'm looking forward to a Luton match and hoping for a result rather than just...

Two clubs freed from the enthusiasm-sapping embrace of unpopular managers might just stage a classic Division 4 encounter on saturday, with two teams and two sets of fans up for the occasion. A very different scenario to the 0-0 bore-fest in front of a disappointing turn out of fractious and...

We've never won at the New (or old) Lawn but even the prospect of breaking that run and seeing the next step on Big Bad Barry Corr's journey back to a longer term contract is failing to tempt me to consider a winter trek through the wilds of the Cotswolds and an arctic couple of hours on that...

Yes folks, Trevor Kettle is back at the Abbey to add to the joy of Fatty & Shouty on the touchline next saturday. Derry is in place to the end of the season, it seems. Jez still on gardening leave/recharging his batteries/licking his wounds/plotting his revenge?? I have a suspicion that at...

This doesn't really deserve a thread but I expect we'll get more attention than the BLD (Big Lancashire Derby). Third match for us in the CUFC mini-league. 3 points so far and we'll do well to get any more this season. That first home win and the Jevani created Uche scored winner seems a long...

Not really worth it's own thread but it has a chance to be the last L2 thread for a single match of 2017 - so why not? These Xmas & New Year fixtures have felt a bit like the phony war or waiting to go over the top - we're just waiting to see who will be in charge (on and off the pitch) when...

I had a different life when the clubs last met, in an April 2002 league match, and certainly don't remember the 1990 play-off success. In fact my only memory of a game against Chesterfield was the first half of a memorable Easter 1967 double that was played at Holker Street in front of 7,905...

On this date in 2009, U's travelled to Church Road to lose 3-0 to Hayes & Yeading United in front of 744. The level of interest in tonight's match against Yeovil seems only slightly higher on here and on our message board - so I invite the fellow fans of similarly stuttering clubs and Newport...