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The Big Fall Out (1st Dec 2019)

Oh dear oh dear oh dear….. Time for Belinda’s voice of reason to return me thinks! What a few weeks Waders fans have had to endure, since BigAl sent me the photo of Nunny and his son watching what would be Lee’s last game in charge of the Waders…

Let me start with an”I told you so” Right at the start when Lee took over from Nunny I predicted that this would not end well and I think I said it would last just one season – typically no-one listened and, guess who got it right!! For the record, that isn’t a slight on Lee, its more a judgement on the personalities that would be having to deal with each other I’m a professional manager and I wouldn’t but dream of putting those people in the same team… Also Lee makes no secret of his desire to rise up the football ranks (with the very best will, that won’t happen at Biggleswade) So, for me it was just a matter of time. To his credit, Lee came in and brought a whole new level of professional set up with him – gone was BigAls twitter feed and in came post match interviews, highlights, sponsored players (not sure Donners gave me my money’s worth ) a better twitter feed (sorry Al ), replica kits that you could get the same season (no offence Bozza – was thinking more the Soppy Tache days) and seriously cute photos of my grandson courtesy of the lovely Faye

To say I was pleased to hear of Nunnys return is an understatement (I was always much closer to Nunny – he was why I stuck with the Waders) – Will he stay? I hope so, but who knows…

So let’s try and break down what has happened since 5^th November:

Lee and his backroom staff left to Join Hendon FC who are struggling in a relegation zone; A strange and sudden move most fans thought (those of us in contact with Faye and Lee know why and its nothing untoward)

Waders played Met Police away in the Trophy on the 9^th, we brought them back to ours on 12^th and beat them thanks to Joe White . Rain bought us some time until we faced Alveley on 23^rd – losing 4-1 in the most dreadful waders display I’ve seen in many years… It wasn’t helped with rumours of at least 9 players ready to follow Lee to Hendon As fans we were furious, we’re loyal and expect that the players love the club like we do (of course its silly, few are – it’s a job and also their loyalty lies with their families and a good Gaffa, as Waders Legend Captain Fantastic Gents pointed out to me; fair enough, although as a fan it doesn’t make it any more palatable

Lo and behold the announcement came out the following week that we were losing 6 players to Hendon with immediate effect – so 7 had gone to Hendon in total as Shaun Lucian had jumped ship earlier (he’s a local to Hendon so fair play). I’m not gonna lie, I wasn’t bothered about most of them (don’t really have any connection with them) – I was bothered about the sheer number though? and I was upset by a couple of Nunny originals in Liam Brookes and Lucas Perry – But good luck to them and I’m still in contact with ya mum Lucas .

Not unsurprisingly the fans WhatsApp group went apoplectic – it felt like we were being destroyed and still no news of any signing for us..

I did my best to block, mute, unfollow anything Hendon related on social media – it just felt like salt in the wound

Friday and Saturday saw some signings being revealed, at least the Green Army wouldn’t have to dust off their boots!

So yesterday in Spoons myself, Bunnyman, Cheslseaboy, Rodney and Uncle Albert all met up before the match and most of the talk was doom and gloom… For once I was the only one with any optimism (£20 for a Waders win!) we mulled everything over again and again – but the truth is no-one knows what went on; I genuinely think its 6 of one and half dozen the other

No Nunny today, instead another Waders Legend took charge – Craig Ryderhead It was a good match to watch, BigAl was back on twitter duties, Becs and Anya were back on the raffle , the club have small bottles of processco in, thanks Annette AND Waders won thanks to and Ex Hendon player Trey Charles , and Ex Wader Liam scored for Hendon securing a point for them All is good…You’d think

It all seemed to get a bit rubbish on twitter again last night Not sure I know why, luckily my phone was at just 5% so I dodged most of it until this morning but as the Gaffa says, time to stop and draw a line under it all, it really is getting boring now .

For the record, before another uproar starts – this is all my thoughts as a Waders fan and friend to many that are involved in this sorry mess , I don’t in anyway speak for or represent the club; But as I said earlier I did predict this, I am always right (BigAl will tell you that), so I probably am in this instance.

Whatever happens I want my club back – and for the 1^st time in 3 weeks I got that yesterday , so please let’s all move on!! Not to Hendon though! (joke).

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FA Cup Away day Sept 2016

FA Cup Away day 3rd Sept 16

Malden & Tiptree v Waders 0 – 1

Alcohol units A relatively well behaved 4 (well there was no Chelseaboy to lead me astray)

B’s Man of the Match – Alex Anderson

Game rating 7/10

Ground rating 5/10

Attendance 150

Away Day Role call:

Bunnyman & MattyMouser

BigAl & DJ

Bozza & ChrisB

M, Em & DelBoy

How quickly the FA Cup comes back around… and on this Sunny (the weather forecast had promised rain – so it was a dilemma for me, I decided to leave the brolly at home) Saturday morning a few of the Green Army; namely myself, BigAl, DJ, MattyMouser and Bunnyman were to be found waiting outside the New Inn waiting for Andy to open up at 9am – yes we got some looks and a few comments, but they do serve a mean breakfast, and when BigAl ordered beer with his, we all felt it was now acceptable, a bit like airport rules, we have now invented the ‘Football Away Day’ rule (thinking about it, Wessex might have already patented that one)

It was a lovely breakfast, even if poor old BigAl did have to wait a bit longer for his, we knew there’d be trouble when we heard all the orders going into the kitchen for the eggs – it sounded more like a football formation, breakfast finished and nicely washed down with a couple of small ones (don’t judge me Chelseaboy) we headed to Langford road to joined the rest of the Green Army for 10.30.

Its wonderful sight when you come to Langford road at this time, and see the loads of mini Waders playing out on the front pitches – brilliant.

Chairman Mo arrived and informed a few of us that today we would be fairly light on players, with Inih (the SPL’s leading goal scorer) carrying a knock from Monday, Russell Short in the states, Big Gav at a wedding, CraigyD still suspended and Tony Burnett a doubt.. As it was Tony Burnett arrived at Langford road to join the squad, with Inih and CraigyD getting on at the Stanstead drop to show some support…

I thought the journey might be a bit dull, with the Green Army missing a few key members, namely JT (working again!), JT jr, Chelseaboy (daughter’s birthday); Silly me, it’s never a dull one if our favourite middle child is involved and trust me ChrisB was on top form today complete with stories that can ‘sadly’ never be repeated outside of the coach.

We eventually arrived in deepest ESSEX at about 1.30pm – quite why it took so long, I don’t know; actually that’s a lie – Homer was in charge of the directions and was determined to avoid getting delayed on the M25, which we did to be fair…

On arrival at the ground, I was quite impressed – they even had a BelEnd to rival our own… the clubhouse was good, with a TV, decent bar and some decent ladies loo’s (you’d be surprised at some places). As we sat down Bozza noticed Bully’s travelling companion sat alone and so we got her to join us and found out she was in fact Molly, Bully’s 14 year old daughter – what a lovely chatty confident young lady.

At this point DelBoy had disappeared in search of a cash point having got his 1^st lesson in how expensive away days always end up being – poor old BigAl is going to have to get a loan out, to get him though this week to pay day.

An elderly chap in a white suit arrived in the clubhouse and made his way towards BigAl, immediately telling his life story… Sensing danger, BigAl ducked out and ChrisB was the next target; I noticed ChrisB holding his pint over his mouth the whole time, I was to later find out, it was a makeshift face mask to protect from the flying food – he clearly was taught that its bad manners to talk with you mouth full… It was good fun for us all to watch ChrisB suffer a bit… Somehow ChrisB broke free and it was Em who was to be the next victim, whilst Molly and I talked instagram and took selfies. I did eventually rescue Em; sometimes you just have to be rude, sadly.. Not to worry his new target was Bozza… ChrisB did try and rescue you Bozza…

We headed out for the 1^st half with our newest GreenArmy member and set up camp behind the attacking goal. It was now quite windy and Molly got her 1^st lesson in trying to control the big Waders flag, she passed with flying colours!

The conditions weren’t the best for the game and I think a few balls were lost during this 1^st half.

Burnett had go during this half as did my MoM Alex Anderson (who I later found out he used to play for them – that explains the man hug he received when we had arrived). We thought we’d got it just before half time when Burnett broke free and headed the ball, sadly the crossbar would deny us again!! And the subsequent rebound was then launched over the post..

We set behind the opposite goal for the 2^nd half, a bit of a concern for Molly and I, as there was no cover and rain was now threatening; Not to fear, Molly had one of those Mary Poppins magic bags and produced a brolly at the right moment – literally, she had a full survival kit in this bag, right down to socks, spares shoes, food – which she was kinf enough to share with me.

2^nd half was pretty even with Alex Anderson determined to make the scoresheet for the Waders – his efforts paid off on 73 minutes. Waders pushed on but it would just be the 1 goal today, and that’s all we needed. The lads really stepped up today in a depleted squad, with Connor Hall and Calum Lewis (both playing out of position) proving to be a strong centre back partnership. Mark Coulson taking on the Captains armband and having another good game playing out wide in midfield. Robbie Parker, who has made a good start to the season for us, again worked hard in the centre of midfield. Ian Rees who has return to us on loan, slotted straight back in, to his awesome best.

Well done Waders

In the bar afterwards both CraigyD and Inih did their bit, when at separate time they were caught by the man in the white suit – fair play to them both for being so patient.

What I learnt today:

20 20 cricket away days are the most expensive of all
Molly has great taste in perfume
Instagram and the point or not
Always carry cash
I look ridiculous with big floppy ears and a dogs nose – an Instagram thing..
‘Man in the white suit’s life story
Vegans don’t eat fish
Never mix tequila and milk
Em has the patience of a saint, as does Inih, CraigyD, ChrisB and Bozza
Chips and mash is a perfectly acceptable combination

#GreenArmy

#InNunnyWeTrust

#Don’tMessWithBully

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Manic Monday

St.Neots Town v Biggleswade 2-0

31^st August 2015

Alcohol units – 2

B’s Man Of the Match – Ian Rees

Game rating – 6/10

Attendance – 456

Sounds like myself and Big Al missing a cracking game on Saturday against Leamington – based on the final score, the twitter coverage and the furore that followed on the southern premier league facebook page…

Having captured plenty of culture in Sunny York this Bank Holiday weekend

* Nothing wrong with that statement, we were in shorts on the Sunday I kid you not and anyone who’s visited York knows how historic most of the pubs are (not the Wetherspoons variety… they were probably worse than the one in Stevenage New town – and that’s takes some beating! ) *

– We rushed through pouring rain to board an early train back to Biggy …Unbeknown to us, Bunnyman, on his way to the music festival in Liverpool, was at York station at the very same time… It was probably for the best that we didn’t meet up, as it was bad enough Big Al running around taking snaps of trains and numbers without his fellow anorak joining him for a full on ZIP fest…

Back in Biggy we were proper soaked, but there was only enough time to chuck the cases in, change clothes and to quickly dry my fringe … That done we headed straight back out to meet MattyMouser and Chelseaboy (who was escaping his nursing duties for a few hours – by all account that uniform iws a bit tight) in the New Inn; we had a swift couple in there and got a few more details on Saturdays game – By all accounts we weren’t the best, but then Leamington perhaps ought to look at their own teams discipline before bemoaning small clubs like us . I must say bar Manager Andy and Corrine the Landlady were very complimentary about the Leamington fans, so thanks guys for not letting us down

We took the short trip across to the station meeting up with one of the noisy boys, the rest are away – I think Colin defo has more holidays than even me.. and then low and behold the return of Wessex, with what I was told was a transformed HtH Keith, as the day transpired it turns out this was definitely not Keith, and I never thought these words would be uttered…but…, Keith is much less of a handful

MattyMouser got the drinks in on arrival at the Saints and then we went and joined JT and Bozza, Big Al leapt at the opportunity to talk trains

I also got to briefly meet Claire in the flesh (The Saints David Bailey) which was nice, football and twitter are a funny thing… you feel like you know people without ever really meeting..

We set up camp in the furthest away end and were joined by BP Dan who was looking for Stirling (probably getting another speeding ticket ), M without Em was a late entry (but still had to pay!) and then were finally joined by Stirling…

Waders started so well in the 1^st 20 minutes I was sure we’d have 3 points to take home, then there was the most dreadful foul on Callum Lewis right in front of us – I though Big Al might explode I haven’t seen him that animated since I ‘accidentally’ chucked his ‘train spotters monthly’ in the shredder .. It was a bad tackle and one of our supporters, doing his 1^st away game, caught it on a video still to prove it; the ref also had a good vantage point and quickly pulled out the red card. 10 men and playing like we were – BINGO! NO! the game soon took on a different stance with cards a plenty and the Saints taking complete control and being reward just 10 minutes from the half time whistle, we really couldn’t complain Not long after Ryan Frater fouled his brother (awkward..) and so evened up the sides… More worryingly for us is, a 3 match ban and currently Big Gav and Brownie are out … Ryan has since apologised profusely to the club and us fans

Half time drinks did little to relieve the sober atmosphere… it was going to be a sorry soggy end to a disappointing summer…

The second half continued on the same theme with the ref going for a record of yellow cards, that in no way reflected the nature of the game I might add; Although Jae Davis was lucky to escape any kind of booking with a foul that was every bit as bad as the 1^st sending off… On 63 minutes, a name very familiar to me scored – Tom Meecham; previously of St.Ives and Godmanchester – my Ives friends predicted a class future for him many ‘moons’ ago… Just wish he wasn’t against us!

The game ended 2-0 and we swiftly made our way back to Biggy with not a great deal to say – sometimes you lose and you deserve it, no excuses, you deserve it.. that was the Waders today, I don’t know what happened on 20 minutes, but that’s when we gave up the game… Still there are plenty more to go at and hopefully we’ll redeem ourselves on Boxing Day

I still believe

Home to Paulton Rovers Saturday, hopefully we’ll have a full house!

#GetwellsoonBrownie&BigGav

#InNunnyweTrust

#Waders

#GreenArmy

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Dolphin Friendly Waders

Biggleswade Town v Poole Town 0-1

^19th September 2015

Alcohol units – Hic!

B’s Man Of the Match – Wader no.1…Ian Brown

Game rating – 7/10

Attendance – 202

A few of the Green Army joined me in the New Inn, on Tuesday 15th, to celebrate another year older…. Wessex had arrived at 2pm to ensure he wasn’t late for the 6pm rendezvous the rest of us, being Bunnyman, BigAl, Mattymouser arrived on time with the military precision you would expect of the Green Army Chelseaboy was slightly later with the lovely Josie in tow, to be fair she is still on crutches and as Chelseaboy said they had set off the previous day… It was lovely few hours with great friends, a cheeky burger and a few beers… Much like most of our gatherings me thinks – although somewhat quieter!

BigAl had a good feeling about todays game – unusually even I did, I even had a flutter on the game . True to fashion the 5 of us met up in the New Inn prior to the game; disapointingly there were no Poole fans in sight…

We headed down to Langford rd and were pleasantly surprised to find the pedestrian gate open Inside the clubhouse, Crowies was ‘on form’ and so were the usual strong away contigent from Poole, but still no sign of Chappo who seems to have disapeared off the face of ‘twitter earth’ BigAl did send a message back with a few of their supporters, so hopefully it will get back to him… We miss you Chappo!!

BDK was respledant in claret and blue – rumour has it, that could well be the new away strip colours . Bozza was in attendance with Toddy, ChrisB and Bozza jr… Surely we don’t have enough merchandise to support such an over staffed shop . JT was also about with his young Wader son, Colin and the noisy boys were out in force today and Handlbar was also in attendance with yet another disgraceful karaoke story! (I wonder if he’s be interested to know I now work for a company that manufacture those very machines..?)

Em must have sorted the shifts this week as she arrived in plenty of time with M to have a cheeky pre match drink. No BP Dan and Stirling today? I wonder if Blackpool have started to let him down again..?

As we made our way out to watch the game, we were greeted by Wessex and the newly named St. Liam (the S and T are silent, much like Liam ever since I allegedly slurred his upstanding character..) We all joined Dodger at the BelEnd; Dodger’s mate of a few weeks back had returned to Langford road and was in poll position behind the goal, decked out in the black and white of a waiter but ‘rocking’ a Waders scarf As the game got underway, the newly married Tref TAH (for those who can’t remember – The Armadillo Hunter) made an appearance stuffing a sizeable filled french stick down his throat – I s’pose the wedding diet is well and truly done with ..

The 1st half the Green Army were in great voice and the Waders came out strongly against a very strong and VERY BIG Poole side… I didn’t know Dolphins could get so big? (Genetic engineering??) Sadly we were caught out on 26 minutes and that was how things stayed to half time… The new duo of Callum & Twinny at centre half (Big Gav and Frates were missing due to injury and being ‘grounded’ *Sorry Frates, couldn’t resist! ) worked hard and battled on, as you come to expect of these 2 favourites of mine… But with the best will in the world the lack of height showed..

At half time BDK’s mate Chris insisted on buying my, I kid you not, a half pint of wine, “A lady should never have an empty glass”… Who’s he calling a lady?

Back out for the 2nd half we made the mistake of sticking to Burger Van end (never the best for a Wader tune)

Although the Waders kept pressing, the goals just didn’t come. Poole had plenty of chances to, but as usual our Superhero that is Brownie made some monumental saves – One was the stuff of dreams; Think Gordon Banks V Pele… Clearly I don’t remember that – I do draw on BigAl’s age and Annorak skills at times for this blog..

Ian Rees was particulary impressive in midfield, the skipper was pretty quiet this game, I’m not complaining – I was worried the red mist might descend as it was this meeting at their place last year that cost him a dearly But he behaved like a pro! There was a clear ‘nailed on penalty’ in the 2nd half – sadly the ref and most of the Waders missed it; but Shane Hill and the Green Army saw it in HD..

90 minutes saw the whistle go and a game we should of got a point out of, fade away… We go again:

Wealdstone on 26th Setember – There’s a few of the Green Army booked up for the coach – but Wealdstone get average crowds of 600… So not out of the ordinary the Green Army will be massively out numbered.. Does that bother us? What do you think?

#GreenArmy

#Lalalalalala..lalalala.. Wadeeeeeeeeers!

#InNunnyweTrus

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Boxing Day 2015

Biggleswade Town v St. Neots Town 5 – 2

Alcohol units – 2

B’s Man Of the Match – Innih Effiong

Game rating –10/10

Attendance – 328

Thank God for Boxing Day football! I had high expectations for Xmas and it all started so well with me and my work sidekick playing the part of Jedi knights in the works end of year bash – well he was a mixed up Leia / Obi Wan and I took on the role of Daft Vader (Who I have new found respect for – that mask gets awfully hot and steamy, and as for breathing… No wonder he was always in such a bad mood!) Anyway with that out of the way and my Yoda ears (and Leia buns) safely stashed away (for Sunday 27^th when Big Al and I finally get to see the film) – it was time to meet the Green Army in the New Inn for Xmas Eve drinks….We ran into MattyMouser on the way down Rose Lane; sadly he was stuck in the gridlock that is now the biggest threat to Wader motorists – thankfully he was going the correct way on the one way system, but he would never make it to the pub on time. It turns out that Bunnyman was nursing ‘Man Flu’ and so was another casualty and Chelseaboy was busy playing superhero’s in the back street alley – No he really was! Some poor old chap had fallen and cut his head badly and so Chelseaboy stepped in. Not even Homer came in (every cloud) to see us! Wessex did suggest the Whistle & Flute, but we took a rain check thank you very much. Then to add to our rejection Andy (Scrotes) informed us that they wouldn’t be doing brekkie on Boxing day – so with our plans scuppered and the pub heaving with diners (which always makes you feel slightly in the way), Big Al and I headed home past what was now resembling the M25…

*BigAl and I had met up with Bunnyman and Mattymouser on Monday 21^st for drinks before the under 18’s game (that was called off) – Despite sitting right at the back of the pub Homer had also found us there…

We decided on the Conny club for Xmas day drinks – which was pleasantly busy and a good atmosphere; It’s not often you hear those 2 words associated with that place.. Typically Chelseaboy went looking for us in the New Inn… Better luck tomorrow.

So the only excitement left for us was the gift unveiling – and Big Al had snuck 3 under the tree for me; I suspect panic has set in when he spotted 4 from me “You said we weren’t doing presents this year?!?” Yep, sometime he can be really stupid… Imagine my delight on opening my pressies to reveal the most dreadful pair of fleecy PJ’s patterned with moons and stars (I suppose Bunnyman would have liked them) Comment like “They’re lovely and soft” “I thought that would stop you nicking mine” didn’t help… So I could barely contain my excitement for the boot type slippers a 90 year old would be ashamed to own “They reminded me of a wookie”… OMG, when did it happen…? (If you were going with the Stars wars theme – how about the millennium Falcon that Em next door got?) I tried to pretend for all of 30 minutes and then took myself off to bed thinking surely Xmas can’t get any worse, because so far it had been pretty rubbish… The weather had been dreadful the last couple of days and so, yes there was every danger it could get worse – imagine the game being called off?? Thankfully it wasn’t and so we headed back to the New Inn to meet some of the Green Army, BigAl sporting his new smart watch (Yes, you heard that right – although him using the wrist waving actions to try and change menu’s is giving me much amusement).

Mattymouser and Bunnyman were waiting for us with drinks and chelseaboy came is just as we’d supped them, so another round it was. On a positive, my sh!t presents gave everyone much amusement – Not to mention BigAl’s aforementioned wrist actions! I think you probably had to be there… Especially when the Town’s resident ‘hard man’ is standing nearby… We did get a message from some St. Neots supporters saying they had overtaken our club house – Good for them we thought, we’re drinking decent beer (and white wine for the Bird)

As usual we stayed as long as we could before making our way to Langford road and a packed bar with only Tracey D serving…? To be fair the newly engaged Big Dave K stepped in the help out, but thank God we had already topped up. The Green Army went on to bottled beer having sampled the draft…

All Bozzas boys were in attendance today and ChrisB kept tight lipped about the Star Wars film. Handlebar made a reappearance – we thought he’s been locked up; apparently not, he’d won ‘Posh’ tickets and so had been trekking further up the A1 for his football fix. Em and M had brought Hannah along again (Never watched a Star Wars film? So it’s not just MattyMouser) JT and RobbieK were about – JT, just glad Xmas was done with.. Tref the Armadillo hunter was in attendance with the new that he was expecting a boy. Colin and the noisy boys were in as were Stirling and BP Dan. There were also a few people we’re not used to seeing, BigAl’s old mucker Ginger had brought his 2 lads along (I say lads, they’d be in their 30’s) and one had brought a replica shirt that will now be sported around the Leeds area “Waders”

I didn’t notice ChairmanMo today? But it was pretty packed. I didn’t see Sideshow Bob. But I am assured he was there with his dad an ex Wader player.

We made our way up to the BelEnd for the 1^st half where I proceeded to set up my selfie stick – not quite in time for the penalty we were awarded just 4 minutes into the game for a Frater handball (Karmer?); Innih stepped up and delivered with the class we are now coming to expect from him. Sadly my camera was not secured enough to the selfie stick to withstand us going mad on the BelEnd – It now looks like one of Em’s phones…. This didn’t deter me from trying to capture the essence of the Green Army; I’ll be honest, I didn’t notice my phones newly acquired tile effect until much later… but once a again a goal got in the way of my photographic exploits thanks to Tony Burnett on 6 minutes, BigAl described it as an exquisite lob – we went wild!! So wild in fact, 2 people left the BelEnd to stand on solid ground. On 15 minutes Burnett was taken down in the box and a straight red was given; so up stepped Innih to put us 3 goals ahead

Not content with 2 goals Innih went for the hatrick on 32 minutes the Waders were absolutely flying as were the Green Army – Although we were a bit put ogg when we heard ‘canned’ Green Army chanting being played over the tannoy??? What was that about? “We’ll sing when we want..”

Just on the edge of half time Tom Meecham pulled one back for the Saints – BigAl missed this as he’d battled his way to the bar; Sadly with just 2 people serving his mission was unsuccessful. I went later and had more luck – although by now there was no bitter for Chelseaboy…

Back out and behind the goal at burger van end we were joined by JT and RobbieK – this isn’t our favoured end (Not noisy enough), me and Bunnyman were all for going and re-taking the BelEnd; but in truth we were soon distracted by Bunnyman winning the raffle – this hasn’t happened in my time of watching the Waders! Sadly the next distraction was another St.Neots goal…. Oh dear…Fair play to the Saints, they were 10 men but they really came at us in the 2^nd half – it could have been so different if it wasn’t for Waders no.1 Browney saving a penalty about 15 minutes into the 2^nd half… This seemed to knowck the stuffing out of the Saints and Waders regained control of the game – MG Lee came on in the latter minutes and nearly scored direct from a corner. The new signing from Barton, Conner Vincent, came close to – but is was Skipper CraigyD who sealed the deal on 88 minutes. The match then seemed to go on forever before the ref finally found his whistle.

This match saved Xmas for me, what a great way to spend and afternoon, with fabulous friends, good laughs and 3 points against our nearest rivals.

Cambridge City Tuesday – bring it on!!

#GreenArmy

#InNunnyweTrust

#We’llSingWhenWeWant

#StillGotItMGLee

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First Blood II

16th April 2016

Waders v Hitchin Town 3 – 5

B’s MoM –

Alcoholic units – 3

Game Rating – 0 / 10

Attendance – 461

It’s taken a while to write this blog – ideally it would have been dispatched the following Sunday morning whilst still in the cosy glow of non-league football…. However I woke up on Sunday feeling pretty fed-up with the previous day; I wasn’t alone, BigAl felt just as disappointed in the previous days match. I have since had time to reflect and put things in to perspective and overall all the good:

Nunny and the lads handing out some fizz to us pre game; #ClassAct
Seeing ~~John Rambo~~ Donners return to Langford rd, albeit in yellow
Afters in the bar with Donners, Browney, Nunny and the Green Army
Bideford planning with military precision…

Outweighed the bad:

The minority of so called ‘Hitchin fans’ who did their best to be utterly obnoxious!
Donner getting a hat trick against us L

No New Inn for us today as we had arranged to have BigAl’s lad Dj so he could enjoy the last home game of the season. Chelseaboy and Bunnyman weren’t far behind us, having managed to completely miss each other in the Waders favoured drinking establishment…, when we arrived and the clubhouse. BigAl got to work handing out the player of the season tickets and Crowely provided a box for us to store the completed slips…. Mattymouser was missing in action again today and Handlebar, BP Dan & Stirling were nowhere to be seen…

We set up in the BelEnd the 1^st half – why not we’ll miss our trusted BelEnd through the summer… Dodger was missing from the BelEnd, preferring to stand on the original Fairfield stand behind the ‘dug outs?’ Perhaps he knew something we didn’t??

Hitchin were kicking towards us the 1^st half and so a mass of Hitchin fans descended towards us and behind the goal. Us being in the BelEnd didn’t go down so well with a couple of ‘alleged fans’; Its funny isn’t it, when I think back to Canvey and Maidstone – no problems at all…

It started well for the Waders against a strong a spirited Hitchin side, but ~~John Rambo~~ Donners wasn’t having any of that and banged in what would be his 1^st of 3 this match… Thankfully Freeman pulled one back for us on 27 minutes, after some quality play between him, Connor Vincent and Tony Burnett.

But make no mistake, Hitchin aren’t sitting in the top end of the table by luck or chance – no, this team are a class act and soon took control again and added another goal just 10 minutes before half time. Thankfully half time did mean that the few idiots decamped to the other goal…

Tref won the raffle today and so it was sweets all around for the 2^nd half…

Hitchin didn’t hang about the 2^nd half, and within 10 minutes they were 3-1 up, despite us hitting the cross bar early on… We still sang our hearts out though! on the hour mark ~~John Rambo~~ Donners added another notch 4-1…

Connor Vincent brought it back to 4-2 just 10 minutes later

**At this point an alleged Hitchin fan had walked all of the way around to come past the BelEnd – BigAl and Bunnyman were discussing Hitchine lack of support i.e how quiet the support was considering the numbers that drowned us out 5/1 – ‘Said fan’ decided to start a confrontation about this (which wasn’t even said to him) – totally unnecessary, I did go and ‘speak’ to him, because I was furious – I didn’t want to think bad of Hitchin, a club and ground I have a real soft spot for – and I certainly didn’t want my experience of non-league football to be ruined… What I love about non-league, is in my experience so far its friendly, fans mix, we have mates from Poole, St.Neots, Weymouth, Mertyr and more – King Lynne have a terrible reputation, yet they were brilliant at ours! As supporters we are friendly and welcoming; we are out for a sing song (if lubricated enough) and a good time. For me if every experience was like that of today – I’d walk away…

Anyway it was nice that Chelseaboy and BigAl had come to my rescue, thinking things were going to escalate, however by the time they’d arrived my adversary was smiling and offering to buy me a drink..

Back to the game:

It wasn’t 4-2 for long, ~~John Rambo~~ Donners (looking as fit as we’ve seen him) claimed the match ball with his hat trick on 73 minutes…

Ian Rees got one back for us 3 minutes before time, making it 5-3 and that’s how it finished.

We went for afters in the bar and it was great to see practically the whole Hitchin side staying on and enjoying drinks together – I totally get how they are where they are, incredible team spirit.

Not for the 1^st time we had to be kicked out of the clubhouse, as people had homes to go to…

The last we heard, the box with the player of the season tickets in was missing!

There’s a good 10 / 12 of us travelling down to Bideford on Saturday 6.45am OUCH! I have been monitoring twitter all week and it would seem most of us are sorted for our camouflage themed fancy dress – I have even got leg warmers – I kid you not! I hope Bideford is a good a day out as I have been told, and that it restores my faith in non-league.

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Pre season…

14th August 2013
Alcohol units – Saving for Saturday…
B’s Man Of the Match – Brett for last season
Game rating – pre season = 6/10
So here we are at the start of a whole new season for the Waders; and their 140th year to boot!! I had previously been asked to do an interview for the match program, and I thought ” You know what, I’m gonna set up a blog and report on all the games I attend this season” – hopefully it should be all the home games, I’ve just forked out for a season ticket
Why do a blog?
Because I love the team; I gave up on the premiership years ago, but this oh its just so much better up close and personal – I mean can you imagine AVB or Mourinho tweeting you before a game or the prem players sharing the excitement of the last play off game with you via twitter?? – nah, but that is a reality for us proud Waders!! And better still, if you hang about after the game, you can disect it with some of them over a pint (of orange juice of course )
Last season was simply brilliant and the final game against Rugby was the best game I have ever had the pleasure of watching, even Big Al agreed!
Over the summer, I was so sad to say goodbye to Barnsey (top, top player and bloke), Gatti, A.O.B and Mikey (He wore the pink goalie strip so well) – such a shame but hey as Big Al tells me, that’s football
I’ve watched a few of the pre season friendlies – but in truth, I don’t enjoy them and it was a struggle to see how the ‘new team will be or who will be in it? So this season I eagerly anticipate watching these boys; Captain Fantastic Stevie G Mid field general Lee Allinson Craig daniels (our very own Gareth Bale, but with the loyalty!) Luke Knight (Best haircut on the pitch) Woolfy and let’s not forget (my favourite) Donners!!
It’ll be good to be back at the Carlsberg and see my ‘football friends’, the ‘Mickey Mousers’, ‘Bunnyman’, ‘Noisey boys’, ‘Mr Smart Casual’ and ‘The catt’ to name a few…..
1st match on Saturday 17th at the Carlsberg against Bashley (3pm)
Come on you Greens!!

Waders v Bashley 0-0
17th August 2013
Alcohol units – Does it count if you soak them up with a Chinese?
B’s Man Of the Match – Captain fantastic Stevie G
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 140 (Lowest in the SPL)

So me and Big Al were up at silly o clock in eager anticipation of todays match and it seems we weren’t alone as our midfield general Lee Allinson and Tottenham Tim were to!…
Today we booked train tickets to Poole for August 31st’s game and are trying to see if Truro is viable for us…
We took a slow stroll down to the Carlsberg stopping in at the Conny club for a bacon butty and refreshments along the way – Well you never know, maybe I could persuade a few of the regulars to come and support the mighty Waders! (more on that later).
It felt great walking through the turnstiles having flashed the season ticket, but I must confess to being a little disappointed when I saw that there were not the hundreds of people I expected to be there.
Chelsea boy was there, as was TC and so we parted with £4 to get 3-1 Bashley for Big Al & 0-0 all for me (TC’s score prediction raffle)…. Well we certainly didn’t want to win on the former and the latter, not a chance (?)
Joel Mason was at the bar, sadly still recovering from a broken jaw – he might not be able to chew but the banter was still top class! And he lent us a couple of quid for the score predictor, what a geezer
So let’s get B’s blunder of the day out of the way; For those unaware, at the playoff game at Rugby I had mistaken David Iwedz for his twin (identical I might add!) – which wouldn’t be so bad if the team hadn’t just gone in for half time and so Andy could not be in 2 places at once – but I didn’t know he had a twin did I….? “Cooee!! Hello Andy” oh the shame when within 2 minutes Andy came back out on the pitch. Anyway this was all cleared up when at the end of season ‘do’ it was revealed he was a twin hence the nickname ‘Twinny’

So as we’re chatting with Joel in walks, who I’m thinking is Andy and off I go “So you’re not playing today then Andy?” only for David to politely inform me that “I’m David” CRINGE So good luck referees and officials etc because it looks like both the Iwedz boys are part of the Waders squad now!
The mickey Mousers and Bunnyman made it in time for kick off – Bunnyman having driven back from Devon that morning (that’s dedication). Mr Smart Casual was about, but there were still a few missing unfortunately
So the game – Donners was on the bench as was Andy (yes Andy!) and Luke
Stevie G, Cam, Max (Boy can he throw a ball!!) and Mark C all looked good at the back – This is a big positive going into this league
Lee Allinson looked good in the centre of midfield (but then he would look good anywhere ). The Waders dominated possession, but just couldn’t break through the solid looking Bashley side. Donners and Luke did get on in the second half but still we could break through . It wasn’t the best – but then we still got a point and its very early days.
On a positive note that 0-0 ticket won me £30 and TC won the raffle!!
We also called back at the club on the way home and I was asked if my scarf was Celtic?? So after a 10 minute explanation of why I love and support the mighty Waders, I’m hoping to have persuaded another person through the turnstile… We’ll see!
Next game Wednesday night Cambridge City at Histons ground

Cambridge city 1-1
21st August 2013
Alcoholic units – one, its a school night!
B’s MoM – Ian “Waders no.1” Brown

Well a quick round trip from Cambridge to Biggy and back to collect Big Al (next time I’ll make him get the bus ) and we’re in the bijoux Histon carpark – £1 to park!! Take note Waders committee, lol.
My Cambridge UTD mate turned up to watch the game with us – Ironically another Ian Brown, although we only know him as Lurch… nuff said, we wouldn’t be getting any bother from the away fans
I didn’t enjoy the game until today (22nd) because as Big Al says I care to much … But yes I do now appreciate what a cracking job Nunny’s boys did to come away with that point! and a point I’d like to make is reference some article in a (I assume) cambridge based local rag referring to ‘MG’ Lee Allisonson’s super goal *Our first in the SPL as TC pointed out..
“Speculative effort”….????????????????????
Well, we were right behind the goal and we saw Lee look up, skillfully take aim and bang that ball straight over the CC keeper – Complete and utter quality and ok me, Big Al, TC and Tref are biased – but not CUFC Lurch, and he agreed “Class”
We moved for the 2nd half and it was a better vantage point at the halfway line – Smart Casual was there with Mickey J… and he’d managed to miss the goal..? ha ha
*Notice I have failed to mention the CC goal – it was ok
Anyway the second half was uber exciting although I could barely stand it – and I was mighty relieved when Donners Came on and their no. 10 came off (Kelvin Bossman, I hope he got the CC MoM)… I’m sure Captain fantastic was pleased to see the back of him!
Now I’m sure it was a pure coincidence the fact that CC’s goalie was poleaxed for 5 minutes within minutes of Donners coming on …. (BTW their Goalie Zac Barrett had a super game to and battled through the head injury he sustained )
In summary the game was promising and we saw some nice football, and fast passing between Callum Lewis, ‘MG’ Lee Allinson, Sam & Lee Reed (are they brothers?). Captain fantastic, Cam M, Mark C and Max held their own against a good strong team and a particulary quick no.10
Best of luck to the Waders for Saturday (Bideford away) and I’ll see you on Monday (Home to Bedford) and apparently I could be wearing the new replica shirt…(bet its not my size )?

1-1 Bideford
Gutted not to have been there with the boys
But sounds like super Craig Daniels is back
well done lads – see you all Monday!!
safe journey home x

Aug, 2013
Biggleswade v Hungerford 0-1

7th September 2013
B’s MoM – Craig Daniels
Attendance – 145
Game rating – 5/10
Rain was forecast for today, but as it turned out it wasn’t to be the weather that would rain on my parade…
My blog made the program againJ, this time the legs were out but the content was cut short – space issues.
We arrived early at the Carlsberg so Big Al could watch the F1 qualifying; Crowey was full of his usual wit and banter and Mark B was in his Waders corner shop (Arkwright?) – Still no shirt . Chelsea Boy joined us, but no Mickey Mouser or Bunnyman. The Noisey boys were in as was DC and his dad, there were quite a few regulars and Tref made it back from his travels (I suspect our Guinness wasn’t as good)!
I chose 3-2 (10-20th minute) in TC’s scorecast….
There was to be no Stevie G today as he’d got a wedding to attend, so MG Lee took Captain fantastic’s armband for the match. Andy Iwedz and Luke ‘the hair’ Knight both made a start, which was good to see, however Donners would have to wait until the 2nd half to make an appearance.
The Waders made a bright start with Craig Daniel especially shining on the right wing. Sam Reed worked really hard throughout the game. Max ‘Delap’ York was pulled up twice by an over officious lino for foul throws?? They looked ok from where we were standing as we politely told the lino !!
After such a bright start the game got ‘bogged’ down and chances for both sides were few and far between – I was never going to get that 3-2!
In the 2nd half Hungerford made the most of a rare chance in the 64th minute thanks to Parsons; yep it was gonna be one of those gamesL. Nunny made some changes in the 2nd half with Donners, Evan Key and George Smith coming on. There was a cracking chance late on for Donners, but it just wasn’t going to be our day!
I hope the boys are not to down – there has been some excellent performances this season and any time now it will all click into place; and to quote Big Al and Smart Casual “There’s a team out there that are going to get an absolute ‘tonking’ from us!” So keep the faith boys!!

Good luck to the Waders in the FA cup (on my birthday) and away to Arlesey 17th; Redditch 21st. Me and Big Al will be sunning ourselves in Majorca (I hope). See you on 5th October

Holiday blog – FA cup 1st round qualifying

(15/9) Wingate & Finchley v Biggleswade 0-0
(17/9) Biggleswade v Wingate & Finchley 4-3
B’s MoM – Twinny (Andy)!!!
Alcoholic units – Don’t ask!
How smug was I? – having booked my holiday way back in July 2012; I could only hope not to miss a home game (especially now being a season ticket holder) – and so when the fixture list came out – BINGO!! Don’t get me wrong I was a bit annoyed to miss Arlesey away, but hey-ho, I could live with that in exchange for sunshine and sangria.
Hmmmm…..
So let’s start with mine, Big Dave K and Evan Key’s birthday on Sunday 15th – thanks for all the good wishes by the way… I did however have to prompt Donners and my only son to do so; the latter being horrified at texting me abroad ££ (tight little sod!)
From what I can gather, via the tweet feed we were receiving, whilst sat in a Majorcan bar it was a pretty quiet game and of course it finished nil all, meaning I was to miss by all accounts a super exciting game on the Tuesday…

Moving swiftly on to the Tuesday match – OMG!!! A seven goal thriller!! Me and Big Al once again took residence in ‘Bar Daniel’ (tenuous link to our super no.7) under the guise of watching the football they were showing; Some team called Man U?
Big up to twitters ‘John of Wessex’ who was our very own Soccer Saturday – Move aside Jeff Stelling!
Sam opened the scoring on 13 minutes and then an apparently harmless looking challenge from Max York resulted in a penalty and was put away by W&F and then they scored again; Flippin ‘eck 2-1 down! Both Big Al, me and Tref Griffiths who was also away (not with us I hasten to add, we’re a friendly bunch – but not that friendly) were frantic! The refresh button was on overdrive!!! But do not fear Waders came back and just before half time we were 2-2 thanks to Lee Reed.
Sadly it W&F took the lead again – this was becoming unbearable! But as ever Captain Fantastic took charge and brought the mighty Waders to level the score at 3-3. At this point were beyond stressed and I felt sure my IPhone would explode!
Lee Reed made it 4-3 after 74 minutes; Now we were double stressed and ‘Biggleswade 1874’ strung the tweet’s out like a Dan Brown thriller – remind me to have a word! Thank God for ‘John (Jeff Stelling) of Wessex’
On the final whistle we were out of our seats hugging like we’d won the lottery much to the amusement of the locals as nothing was happening on the Match being screened.. “Estupido Ingles”
From what I have since read in the match report Andy Iwedz played a blinder and got MoM (he wished me a happy birthday without prompting J) – Well done Twinny!
See you all Saturday 28th for the 2nd round FA cup qualifying against Chelmsford.

Biggleswade v Hungerford 0-1

Good luck to the Waders in the FA cup (on my birthday) and away to Arlesey 17th; Redditch 21st. Me and Big Al will be sunning ourselves in Majorca (I hope). See you on 5th October.

Biggleswade v Burnham 1-1

B’s MoM: Lee Reed
Game rating: 7/10
Attendance : 135
What a difference a few days make… After such a great day out at Poole, my hopes were high for tonight’s foray – Little did I know I was destined to be bitterly disappointed … So much so it’s taken me 2 days to be able to blog about it!
On a positive:
It was good to see the ‘Noisey boys’ back in town – Missed ya Colin! And the Waders crew was complete tonight with Chelsea boy, Bunnyman, Mickey Mouser, Smart Casual, Big Al & TC… not forgetting me (WaderBird)
The san Miguel is proving to be popular with the crew – and it was lovely to be served pinot by Crowey the best barman in the SPL (if Carlsberg made barmen…)
On a negative:
I should have known it wasn’t going to be plain sailing as sadly the ‘promised’ shirts were not be … someone (has a ‘tache) had managed to wash the ‘order form’. I don’t think I’m destined to wear that shirt in Majorca for my birthday this month… Big up to Mark (nickname undecided currently) who had to break the news
Not sure about TC’s new raffle??? I think the lottery would be better odds – Yep you got it, none of us won
The match:
Reference my disappointment, don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking Nunny and the boys – I’d like to see me do any better – I think we played some brilliant football; well-done Lee Reed on his 1stgoal (in this league for us) in the 57th minute. Apart from that we just didn’t convert enough chances, and there were plenty for us… Sadly despite creating very few chances Burnham did convert in the 86th minute (Driver).
A sterling performance again from the midfield led by MG Lee and Callum, Alex and Craig both dominated the fullbacks. Captain fantastic Stevie G, Cam, Mark & Max (our very own Rory Delap, only Max can also play) were solid at the back. Ian Brown was outstanding as usual with the few saves he had to make. Sam and Lee are proving to be a troublesome duo, let’s hope we can build on that. Luke ‘The hair’ Knight and Donners made it on in the 2nd half and both made a big difference as always .
It, truly, is a pleasure to watch the kind of football the Waders are playing currently, lots of neat passes and exciting wing play – we just need to convert those chances, as I’m sure we will!
Best wishes to Tottenham Tim (also my neighbour) – Get well soon!!!
Next game Saturday, Hungerford at home – Should be interesting as they are fellow play off winners.
Don’t forget Saturday is Non-League day – So get down to the Carlsberg and support the Waders!!!

Sep, 2013

Poole v Biggleswade 2-1

31th August 2013
Alcohol units: 4 (Poole club doubles)
B’s MoM: Sam Reed
Game rating: 7/10
Attendance : 262
What better way to end August, than a nice little trip down to Poole! Big Al had already made contact with Chappo (Dolphin diehard) via twitter and so we were assured of directions if we got lost and better still a nice welcome at the Tatnam road ground
It was the 9.39 from Biggy for us and a 9am start for the Waders coach… We arrived in sunny Poole at 1.15pm and it was just a short stroll across to the ground (this was good as my new trainers were proving to be anything but comfy!!).
When we arrived at the ground we were greeted by a really friendly bunch of supporters – and Big Al spotted an ex ‘ Biggy’ pat there to, in the shape of Duffy (now a Poole local).
We popped in the clubhouse – It is probably at this point that I need to mention how good our facilities at the Waders are.. This is something I must confess to taking for granted! – Let’s just say it was very bijoux, but what it lacked in space, comfort and pinot (yes really L) it made up for in character and good banter… The boys behind the bar could give Crowey a run for his money. So with the lack of pinot and a raging thirst I went for the recommended club double (v&c).
The coach turned up soon after and we were joined by Chelsea boy and his ‘Poole’ mate Duffy. Chappo came over and welcomed us to the home of the dolphins, great bloke!
Big Al sampled the food; I’m guessing it was good as I didn’t get offered any of his burger L By now we had been joined by Big Dave K, Emma and MD…. AND…wait for it….. Peter, the plonker (his words!) from Poole trying to entice us into the raffle where we stood to win at one point £1k (pretty sure this was teeny bit exaggerated ;-)). What a scream he was though, with his impromptu ‘stand up’, lovely bloke! Watch out Brian and Emma – we’re expecting so much more on a match day now.
Another bonus before the game, was the big hug from twinny (it was defo Andy!)… they really are taking B’s MoM seriously.
Ok match time – Poole really came out of the traps and had us pinned back for the 1st 15-20 minutes… I was more than a little concerned (not least because I needed the ladies – and it was a shed!) but gradually we got into the game and I’d say by the 30 minute mark we were starting to threaten; shame they took the lead in the 25th minute!
We took a walk to the dugout side so I could get better photos out of the sun. * At this point I’d like to apologise to Brett for shouting out to him a little loudly – like your mum used to if she saw you in the playground at school in front of all your mates, lol!
I’m not sure about better photo’s but after the foul on Alex (I think) 10 minutes before half time, MG Lee taught me some new words .. I don’t think he was happy
We went into half time a goal down, but I really felt we could get something in the 2nd half. I braved the shed in half time – I no longer have to imagine what it might be like in ‘I’m a celeb, get me out of here’ again, never will I take the Carlsberg for granted
Back in the sun for the 2nd half and for me we dominated it; Captain fantastic, Craigo, Brownie, Alex, Cam, Max all played brilliantly. George, Donners and Luke ‘the hair’ Knight all made it onto the pitch later on and for me a super header from Donners made the goal that Sam so expertly smashed in
I’d of been happy with a point, it would have been the fairest result – but this is football and it can be cruel, usually in the 90th minute! Gutted but do you know what – If we were gonna lose then I’m glad it was to these guys – they gave us a ‘cracking’ day out and their supporters even clapped our boys off the pitch!!
I do have to mention a low point and that was Donners leaving the pitch topless (another MoM attempt?) and my camera being dead
I hope Nunnys boys weren’t too dejected by this result – they shouldn’t be, they did well! And this is one fan that walked away with her head held high

Tuesday night Burham at home – and hopefully my Waders shirt will be ready to collect!

Biggleswade Bedford derby 4-1

26th August 2013
Alcoholic units – 3 or 4 LARGE ones (it was hot!)
B’s MoM – Callum Lewis
Attendance – 330
Rating – 9/10
We drove back early from a weekend break – and the Waders didn’t disappoint!
Bunnyman, Mickey mouser, Chelsea boy, smart casual and a few newbies (2 of my recruits!!) were about and it was good to see a couple of old faces there to; Lets hope our numbers continue to grow
I didn’t try the new Waders ale – I have bikini’s to fit into in a couple of weeks
It was good to see the replica shirts on sale and I have placed orders for me and Big Al – Can’t wait to show them off in Majorca
So the game… I have to confess to being worried about this meeting, but as it was, the only worry for me and Bunnyman was the constant bombardment from blinkin’ wasps!!! In fact I missed a goal thanks to them – sorry Max it wasn’t a unique celebration of your super skills; I was merely running around squealing and waving my scarf in self defence – but I’m assured the goal was top class! Speaking of which – how about those goals from Sam and Callum oh yes, the boys were on fire – and lets not forget the 1st goal for us in this league scored by a bearded player (keep ’em coming TC).. Go Luke
I have struggled to pick my MoM this time as the whole team were awesome – All of the crew agreed, what better way to spend a bank holiday Monday
Its good to see Craigo back and on fire, Captain Fantastic and MG Lee played a blinder as did Cam and Alex. I was great to see Sam score his 1st goal for us, I’m sure the 1st of many! (no pressure )
I’ve collected my train tickets for Poole, I’m sure it’ll be tough – but after watching such a brilliant team performance against Bedford, I have every faith
When (Next) Saturday comes…

19th October 2013
B’s MoM – ‘Midfield General’ Lee Allinson
Attendance – 168
Game Rating – 4/10
Alcoholic units – 2
With such a big game coming up on Saturday 26th and being in the SPL where every game feels like a cup final it was hard to muster a great deal of enthusiasm for the Trophy game much as we love to watch the mighty Waders.
Chelsea boy was lured away by the bright lights of Stamford bridge, but the rest of the Green Army were on duty albeit a little subdued for this match… the main topic being “When Saturday comes”.
The Mighty Green flag was secured with purple laces today – it was a lot less stressful than the velcro option of last week (remember I missed Evan’s goal!)!
The game was evenly matched in the 1st half although we did hit the wordwork twice! and so it looked from early on that ‘Lady luck’ would not be shining down on us (she can save it for Saturday 26th!!). I’d like to give a shout out to Chesham’s no.8 Steve Wales – its rare to see sporting behaviour these days but after the ‘lino’ wrongly letting a Waders corner go – he was quick to remonstrate with the lino in our favour, all in good banter I might add (lino included).
It was good to see Donners and Natty P combining well again, Captain Fantastic and Twinny kept up the good pairing of last week and as per ususal MG Lee Allinson was boss in the midfield – hence his well deserved MoM in my opinion!! . Calum Lewis was playing right back in place of the suspended Max ‘Delap’ York (just the 1 game suspension he assured me) and it was a shame to see him go off injured part way through the 1st half .We finished 0-0 at half time, which on reflection was probably the fairest result.
At the start of the 2nd half we were sad to see Donners substituted due to injury lets hope Nikki and the other medical staff can sort out Calum, Sam, Cam and Donners in time for Saturday (if not Wednesdays league game against Corby)
As the game progressed it seemed increasingly like a draw – but just a seconds’ lack of concentration saw Cheshams no.3 Daniel Braithewate score *BTW if he played for us, he would be odds on for the end of season Player with the best hair award (awesome!).
So we finished 0-1… Were we the Green army gutted? in truth not really – Bigger fish to fry!
I have to say some of the best bits of the day came in the form of Big Al, Bunnyman and TC with our retro (Mickey Mouser might call in antique) playgroud talk – I couldn’t possibly share the banter as it’s not that kind of blog, but suffice to say if you’re of a certain age and maybe seen Mickey Flannagan’s ‘The out out’ tour – you’ve got it
Next SPL game Wednesday 23rd away to Corby
Saturday 26th we host Canvey Island in the FA Cup 4th round qualifying for the biggest game in Waders 140 year history – COME ON!!!!!!
“Donner’s going to Wembley, la la la la”

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Waders v Leatherhead 5-1

12th October 2013
B’s MoM – Andrew Iwedz
Attendance – 366
Game rating – 9 / 10
Alcoholic units – 2…
The Green army were back in force for the 3rd round qualifying against Leatherhead and we weren’t to be disappointed!!
It was good to see the Carlsberg buzzing with supporters, both home and away and great to see some new home supporters coming back again lured by the magic of the FA cup..
The Waders had a few injuries which saw Andy Iwedz starting for us in the centre of defence and Evan Key starting in the centre of midfield. The 1st half saw us the better side and I thought it might just be another one of those games where we would not have any luck, especially when a MG Lee Allinson free kick was headed onto the post by Evan Key. Luckily Alex ‘Aled’ Witham (As predicted by Soulman) banged one in right at the stroke of half time.
Donners made a start in the 2nd half replacing Sam Reed who it seems was still carrying a knock. The Waders completely ‘Bossed’ the 2nd half and Lee Reed doubled our lead after just 5 minutes with a deflected shot from the edge of the area. Leatherhead pulled one back just of 60 minutes and to be honest that was the only time our defence were opened up. Captain fantastic, Andy, Mark C and Max were simply awesome for us – and Andy in particular did not put a foot or head wrong the whole game.
Waders made it 3-1 within a minute of Leatherhead scoring – I’m told it was Evan Key, I managed to completely miss it whilst trying to rescue the mighty Waders flag from drooping! Donners headed in from a corner to make it 4-1 (I had predicted 4-3 btw) and at the ‘death’ Evan Key banged in the 5thgoal!!!!
As you can imagine we were going wild! Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, Chelsea boy, TC, Big Al and Soulman – not forgetting Tref, Dan and his dad oh and of course Tottenham Tim from his seat!
The weather was wet, but nothing was going to rain on our parade yesterday – super well done to Nunnys boys, once again you did us proud!
The draw is apparently on talk sport Monday, so we’ll see what 26th October is going to bring in the next 24 hours..
Meanwhile, back at Arlesey on Tuesday for the Red Insure cup – looks like I’m driving as its Big Al’s birthday!

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Waders v Weymouth 2-1

5st October 2013
B’s MoM – Ian Brown
Attendance – 178
Game rating – 8 / 10
Alcoholic units – Lost count!
The Green army were nearly back in force with just Chelsea boy, and the replica shirts missing in action. I actually thought it would be a bit busier than 178, but it was good to see a fair few ‘away fans’ and the 1st club mascot of the season!! It was touch and go whether one of us would need to nip down to the local fancy dress store, but in the end beer won, and there was no way Soul-boy could have been trusted with fetching us a Big Bird
Nathan Peacock (Natty P) and Donner’s started and what a good pairing they made! Bang on 13 minutes Natty P scored his debut goal for the Waders, thanks to a beautiful pass from Donner’s.
Another brilliant twosome was the awesome combo of Callum Lewis and MG Lee Allinson – super stuff! All of the hard work and pushing forward paid off with Lee Reed effortlessly sailing past the Weymouth defence (all of them!) and banging in a goal right on half time 2-0!!!! Well nearly on half time, Weymouth had a good chance just before the whistle which ’Wader’s No.1’ Brownie smacked away.
Sadly Max York was to be sent off in the 2nd half and Weymouth awarded a penalty – from where I stood the decision was harsh, but to be fair we were right at the other end and all being the wrong side of 30 (bar Matty Mouser)… who knows?
At 10 men Nunny took Donner’s off for Twinny who joined Captain fantastic at the back, and as per we’ve come to expect; Gents, Cam Mawer, Mark Coulson & super Ian Brown defended brilliantly to ensure no more Weymouth goals.
There were 5 minute added on, but I have to be honest it didn’t look like we were down to 10 men and so I never felt, as I have previously, that we were going to have it snatched away from us!
Well done the Waders – well deserved!!
Well done Crowey on predicting 2-1!
Oh and appologies to the clubhouse for overstaying our welcome and practically having to be ‘kicked out’ – But it was good to have a catch up with Gents, Nunny and Donners!
We should have been playing Hinkley on Tuesday 9th, but sadly the club ‘folded’ on Monday 8thOctober. How very, very sad – I can only imagine what that must be like for all involved in the club. I’m really not sure how Big Al and I would cope without the Mighty Waders and the idea of no more Green Army… Just doesn’t bear thinking about! So like I say I am genuinely gutted for them, it seems crazy doesn’t it all the money in the premiership and then drop down a few levels and…. I’ll leave it there I’m depressing myself and in danger of climbing onto my soapbox.

Home to Leatherhead on 12th October in the 3rd round FA cup qualifying – I’m reliably informed that they are also the Green army….Hmmm
Hoping to see a good crowd (I’ve been canvassing like mad!).

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Arlesey v Waders 3-2

1st October 2013
B’s MoM – Lee Reed
Attendance – 200
Game rating – 8 / 10
Alcoholic units – None!!
Well another great display of football from the Waders and of course a 5 goal match is always going to be good to watch, what a shame a couple of people were to let the whole thing down .
The green army weren’t quite in force tonight, but Tref, Dan and dad, Soulman, Tottenham Tim and Micky J were about and a few others who I don’t know by name.
I was quite looking forward to my 1st visit to the armadillo stadium and on the whole, the home supporters were a friendly lot.
Let gets back to my 1st statement – believe me I didn’t start this blog in order to criticize and bitch about others, but I simply cannot write this without drawing attention to the shocking refereeing we witnessed tonight! If anyone was to look at the bookings and yellow cards etc, they would assume it was a dirty undisciplined game – this could not have been further from the truth L The 2 particular bad calls for us (and trust me the ref wasn’t biased) were when Sam Reed was poleaxed from behind by the hefty centre half and got booked and a free kick given against (which by the way even the home support standing near us agreed – and the lino could also see?)???? And then the killer for us was the blatant foul on Craig Daniel late on in the 2nd half, when we were at 2-2,that was ignored and swiftly followed by a foul in their box leading to the winning penalty (Well to be fair Brownie saved it, but it was soon banged back in after a rebound)… Shocking!
Well done to Lee and Evan on their goals (the latter being a tad offside – but given some of the decisions, we’ll take that). Again we played good passing football but the chances we did create were just off or saved by their goalie & assistant manager Nathan Abbey – now I would have gone on to praise him, had he not of behaved in such a disgusting manner at the end of the match Yelling at the top of his voice “F**k off over and over again “F off back to Biggleswade” We actually thought it was all kicking off in the ground – but no it was this chap!! Really? Is that how an ex pro and current assistant manager should behave? – well I think not, and frankly if that had been one of ours I would have been ashamed. I can only hope that someone has had a word about being gracious in victory, especially if your team has been outplayed for 80 minutes and you still got the 3 points. I know there were a few people who used to rate Mr Abbey, but that display took him from ‘Hero to Zero’ in minutes… Shocking!
So back to the game – We started brightly creating a few good chances, Arlesey scored against the run of play. Waders equalised on the stroke half time – phew! The 2nd half in mine and big Al’s opinion was one way traffic for the Waders, but unfortunately, Arlesey equalised 10 minutes before the end and then as mentioned earlier scored the winner after Brownies great save. I’ll quote one of the Arlesey supporters to sum it up:

“You passed us out of the park – how did we win that?”

I know a lot of the players were seriously gutted – so were we, but not because of any of the lads performances, they gave it everything as always and I still walked away proud to be part of the Wader family

So back to the Carlsberg on Saturday for Weymouth – let’s get these 3 points and put Arlesey behind us!

COME ON!!

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“Donner’s going to Wembley la la la la”

28th September 2013
Waders v Chelmsford 2-0
B’s MoM – Cam Mawer
Attendance – 329 (??)
Game rating – 10 / 10
Alcoholic units – 5 (including post match celebrations )
What a game!!! For me this was my 2nd favourite match ever. The green army were out in force; Big Al, Bunnyman, Chelsea boy, TC, Matty Mouser, Soulman & his brand new flag (nothing wrong with lime!) and Tref having escaped the French!
Tottenham Tim was back in his rightful place, not sure that applies to Big Dave K who was trying his luck as a barman; the club was heaving (I’m struggling to believe 329 in attendance – it certainly felt more like 450). Dave the Rave also asked for a mention this week but as I don’ t do requests NO, lol.
We also had another in the green army ranks today – Big Al’s 17 year old autistic son Daniel, it could have gone one of 2 ways; luckily for us he loved it, probably more the swearing & chanting – Al could be in trouble with the ex….
As a fan you really cannot ask anymore of your team than they give 100% – the current squad (and last season to be fair) have not failed to deliver on that score in fact they deliver buckets of commitment!
The game started slowly for us, but 10 / 15 minutes in we grew in confidence and it was just a matter of time before we scored – thank you Craig Daniel, what a beauty fired in from the edge of the area! MG Lee and Callum were running the middle of the park with the wide boys running the fullbacks ragged. Max ‘Rory’ York headed in our 2nd from an MG Lee free kick – we later heard that it was his Quiff not head and so Max York takes Luke Knights ‘The hair’ crown!
At half time time I have to say I was pretty upset to hear the abuse the Chelmsford players took from some of the their own supporters? Hardly the way to inspire your team?? I have to say the Chelmsford supporters were a great bunch and I’m sure the majority would share my feelings. Scotty was about in the clubhouse at half time and came over for a chat – I should have asked him to bring the drum around.
The green army took residence at the other end of the pitch for the 2nd half sandwiched between Craig, Sam & Lee’s respective parents – Bunnyman was on top form and lead the chants “Wolfy give us a wave” “GREEN ARMY” “Donner’s going to Wembley”… The album will be out around Xmas time.
Nunny won the score prediction at 2-0! Not bad after 5 out of 7 winners at Newmarket Thursday – Midas touch.
We had afters and it was good to have a quick catch up with Captain fantastic, Nunny and Donner’s – all such great chaps.
Sorry to say goodbye to Luke Knight and Killer – all the best to a great couple of lads.
Arlesey away Tuesday night – Lets hope the green army can make it, we’ll be there!
Once again thanks to Nunny’s boys for making me such a proud Wader and to the Green army (Led by Bunnyman) for making the afternoon the stuff of dreams!

The ‘Two’ that got away,,,,

16th November 2013
Waders v Chippenham 3-3
Alcoholic Units –
B’s MoM – Brett Donnelly
Game Rating – 7 / 10
After the excitement of St. Neots on Tuesday, todays match would be met with much anticipation…
Me and Big Al called into the ‘Conny’ club for a quick bite to eat, before meeting up with Bunnyman and Matty Mouser for aa couple in the Pembroke. On meeting them there was some concern / excitement that Chippenham had brought plenty of fans – Apparently Bunnyman and Matty had been referred to as a couple of village boys as they walked through a group of red & white striped fans just minutes earlier?? It actually turned out they were Rotheram fans stopping over in Biggy before their Match at Stevenage We also found out via the power of twitter that the rogue fans from Tuesdays game were in fact our very own John of Wessex and mate currently on loan from Swindon that explains the odd red army chants (easy to confuse).
As we made our way to the mighty ‘Carly’ we were picked up by Saint Bob, Bunnymans pal and St. Neots supporter, which we thought was a kind offer of a lift – in actual fact it turned out to be a revenge attack as he hurtled straight past the gates. The 4 of us did survived, we Waders are made of strong stuff!!
Entering the clubhouse it was a disapointing turn out (perhaps we should have brought some of the Rotheram fans with us), Chelsea boy was at the bar and STILL waiting his replica shirt…Talking of strong Waders Tref ‘the armadillo hunter’ had quite literally discharged himself from hospital to be there!! and trust me if you seen any of his tweets / photo’s the previous day, I have no idea how he’d made it there ..But theres no keeping a good Wader down, speaking of which welcome back to Tottenham Tim
Special mention to Bjorn the Norwegian Chippenham supporter, we thought we did well going to Poole and back, but there’s dedication; he was extremely complimentary about our facilities
We (+ flag) went outside for kick off and joined Dan & Dad (+ flag) and Soulman (+ flag) and boy was it cold! The Waders took an early lead thanks to Donners scoring his 77th goal in this his 200th game for the club What a fantastic achievement at this level, for a very underated striker (not least by himself )
I was surprised that we only found this info out afterwards
Susan and Martin made a return trip to the Carly but managed to miss the goal mentioned above but they did have to waiting a great deal longer when Captain Fantastic scored on 20 minutes..
“Super, super Ste, Super , super Ste, Super, super Ste, Super Stevie Gentle”
Even though we were 2-0 up, Chippenham looked threatening on the break and at 34 minutes in our defence were to be punished 2-1… not for the 1st time this season
Right on half time Waders made it 3-1!!!!!!!!
“We love you Lee Reed,we do! We love you Lee Reed we do – Ooooo Lee Reed we love you!”
Hmmm Big Al then pointed out it was in fact Sam who’d scored and the Reed brothers mum and dad were to clarify this for me during halftime – but Lee had put an amazing cross in for his brother Now the Iwedz brother are used to me making such mistakes (to be fair they are identical), not sure what excuse we’ve got with Lee and Sam…
We moved end for the second half – not the best location as the loo’s are being taken out and it stunk There were to be no more goals at our end and sadly for us the match went to 3-3 with 2 goals in 2 minutes from the away team The Waders were at 10 men with Evan Key being sent off for a 2nd bookable and sadly despite constant pressure that is how the game was to end and we had sadly seen 2 points slip away from our grasp..
Back in the clubhouse for afters (never again! you’re a bad influence Chelsea boy!! ) and had a chat with few of the lads:
Craigy D is hoping to be back a fit for the next game
Captain and Mrs Fantastic – lovely couple
Donners & Dad – Top Geezers
Alex ‘Aled’ Witham – Top Lad, long drive home
It was good to see Joel Mason back in his shorts and coming on as a sub, we’ve missed the banter!
Sadly we can’t make the next 2 away games (pretty sure my liver will be glad of that) good luck to the Waders on the long trip to Cornwall, Saturday 23rd.
Donners had to be the MoM given the goal and the 2ooth Waders game
Hope Tref managed not to bust any stitches and is fighting fit a week Tuesday for Stourbridge
Still a very proud Wader

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Handbags at ‘Donners’…..

12th November 2013
Alcoholic units – 0 (Yes thats zero and not a typo!)
B’s MoM – Donners!
Game Rating – 10 / 10
After the disapointment of Saturday, it was back to the reality of the league and time to play St. Neots for the 1st time this season; this would be no mean feat after their surprise victory over Hemel at the weekend
Big Al and I made our way for the short journey up the A1, only for me to realise I’d forgotten the trusty flag – cue a u-turn! Don’t worry we hadn’t got much past the Viceroy at this point!
We made our way through a maze of houses in order to reach Rowley Park (Big Al had taken a wrong turn – to be fair I think its an estate you could easily get lost in). There was no parking available when we got there and so it was the street for us, and a fair few others.
I was surprised to have to get tickets from a box office?? The only time we do that is a trip to the theatre usually – little did I know we were about to witness high drama and a fabulous show
On entering the pretty impressive stadium we were greeted by Nunny who had a quick chat with us before rushing off to give the players their final instructions prior to kickoff; You wouldn’t get that at Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford
Dan and his dad were in their usual pitchside position and were were soon joined by Bunnyman, Matty mouser, Bozza, Colin & noisey boys, a quite a few others – Sadly Tot’s Tim and Tref the Armadillo hunter were still confined to sickbay TC, Chelsea boy and Soulman were also AWOL..
Ends were chosen and frankly we were all too cold to move so the flag was put out where we stood – despite the Waders attacking the other end – This proved to be a mistake as we struggled to see the early goals from us (in fact it wasn’t until we got home that we realised it was Donners who scored 1st and not Lee Reed). It should of been no surprise as the starting Donners was like a coiled spring and we wondered had he feasted on raw meat or gallons of redbull before the whistle?; The Consensuswas probably both
We went 2 up thanks to Craigy D’s efforts after just 19 minutes; sadly he went off before the 1st half finished due to injury – everything crossed for Saturday St. Neots always looked threatening, especially Lewis Hilliard their no. 7 and he scored a cracking goal on the 28th minute… Now is probably the time to metion that Lewis works for me and had clear instructions not to score against my beloved Waders hmmm… I was soon distracted however when Donners and MG Lee Allinson took a ‘Time out’ to discuss tactics, our singing must of been very loud as they got in quite close, presumably so they could hear each other The game continued at a cracking pace right up to half time and the teams went in at 2-1.
At the start of the 2nd half we were joined by Homer and 2 rogue fans – well, they were behind the goal – We’re still trying to work out if they were Eynesbury Rovers or maybe Hemel fans that hadn’t found there way out of the maze surrounding Rowley Road They were certainly vocal, and at times made me sound in tune!
The Saints equalised in the 79th minute with a highly contested penalty (that cost us 3 bookings!) – and yes it was Lewis Hilliard again… He clearly wasn’t listening to me . This wasn’t any good for the nerves and I could see it slipping away from us, however a fantastic free kick from Alex ‘Aled’ Witham put us back in the lead at on the 80th minute!!! And yep, you’ve guessed it – Lewis brought it back to 3-3, just 3 minutes later… I must be losing my touch? at this point I was thinking up the worst possible jobs for him the following day … I could really see this slipping away, despite Captain Fantastic’s best efforts – he had an awesome game as did MG Lee
I should not have doubted the Waders however and certainly not a fired up Donners – 4-3 on the 89th minute thankyou very much The was an added 4 minutes that felt like 20, but at the final whistle we’d collect our 3 points.
Well done lads – great result and well bounced back after Saturday!!
Walking away from the ground I was annoyed to hear a couple of the home fans complain that they should be beating sides like Biggleswade Ahem! with all due respect currently we’re 8 points ahead with 3 games in hand and reached the 1st rd proper of the FA cup, we’re not the small team down the road anymore
I did see Lewis in the morning and you’ll be pleased to know that he’s still employed He did also tell me the tale of when he 1st met Donners and lets just say it was a ‘Vinny Jones on Gazza’ moment
Chippenham on Saturday – Lets hope the Green Army are all out in force!

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A (Stour) Bridge too far….

9th November 2013
Alcoholic units – 1.5!
B’s MoM – Ian Brown
Game Rating – 5 / 10
Well for me today was a bit like Christmas, a massive build up, excitement, expectation and then the actual day turns out to be a bit flat and you don’t always get that present you’ve had your eye on for ages…
A sleepless night was had in our household and I’m sure we weren’t the only Wader insomniacs out there! After a hearty breakfast me, Big Al and the trusty flag took a slow walk down to the ‘Carly’.. Big Al was joking about how the coach would be a disaster and Homer would have booked us a school bus – oh how we laughed….
On arrival at the ‘Carly’ Bunnyman, Matty Mouser and TC were ready and waiting; Bunnyman complete with the lucky bunny T-shirt and TC in his lucky green pants (he tells us). It was good to see so many new faces and great that our neighbours Martin, Sue, Emma & Kelly had come back for more The green army would be a few ‘diehards’ down due to work and other commitments – so we needed to be in fine (loud) voice if we weren’t going to let Tref ‘the armadillo hunter’ Chelsea boy and Tot’s Tim down . Talking of diehard fans, Craigy D’s mum and dad also joined the coach party and his mum was a bag of nerves like me, at least she has the excuse that her son is on the pitch .
Now Homer had warned us that the coach we should have had, had blown its engine and so the one being sent didn’t have toilets on it, so there would be stops for the gents of a certain age – and Big Al oh and he also informed us that it was the school bus…. Right on cue, a double decker resembling something out of that 70’s sitcom ‘On the buses’ rattled its way down the pot holes of Langford road….
We made a scramble for the top deck, but were beaten to the front by the mascots; so towards the back for Bunnyman, TC and Mattymouser, Big Al and me – Soulman ‘bagsey’d’ the back seat, but his style was soon cramped when he was joined by some more of the mascots
I kid you not, I don’t ever remember a bus so bad!! condensation dripping from the roof, steamed windows and notices telling us not to stick chewing gum on the seats… At this point Homer had to become Blakey (not one for the kids!) and to be fair he played his part to perfection Off we set and thanks to the stupid road works and lights at the ‘meccano’ (another one not for the kids) bridge it took 30 minute to get out of Biggy!… TC was starting to panic about our planned visit to the Duke William pub.
Just to add to the authenticity of the school bus, one of the mascots was sick (just behind TC) half way into the journey the smell lingered right up until Stourbridge; thank heavens for Waders scarves, its amazing what they can filter out.
We arrived at our destination at 2pm and were frog marched to the pub – which unsurprisingly was absolutely rammed and so back to the ground we headed; and guess what we could actually get a drink in the cricket club!! I wish someone had let us know this prior to our routemarch so yes its true – just 1.5 units!! Why the half you ask, let just say there was some confusion between tonic water and soda water with my 1st drink…
The ground was 3 sided as they share with the aforementioned cricket club and because of the segregation we had just half of their covered terraced shed end. I set the trusted flag up and left a nice couple in charge of it and went back to stand amongst my green army mates.
There was a minutes silence in rememberance of our fallen heroes – and its was beautifully observed by everyone in the ground.
So the game; From my own personal point of view it was disapointing not to see Andy and Donners starts as they have both played such a big part in the previous rounds. In the 1st half of the game the Waders made a bright start, with Craigo getting close – but Stour were to score in their 1st attack just 12 minutes in… Not to worry we hit back within a minute thanks to a header from Evan Key – this sent the Green Army WILD!!! for all of 3 minutes… From a ball that, lets be honest, should have been cleared we gifted Ryan Rowe his 2nd goal and so the 1st half finished 2-1…
In the 2nd half Stour looked much the better side and in reality they closed us down and looked threatening everytime they got the ball going forward – Their no. 10 Luke Benbow was simply awesome. Sadly there were to be 2 more goals and not from us! we did have some chances, Evan Key and Donners, but so did they and in my opinion its is a big thanks to Brownie that we escaped with just 4-1…
I’ll be honest we were gutted, truly gutted – but ultimately Stour were much the better side and I can’t help feeling that a week and half with no matches left us short on sharpness?
But are we still proud of our boys – Damn right!! and I hope that the singing and chanting proved that because trust me at least 3 of us lost our voices and I think we pretty much outsung the opposition, even at 4-1 down and despite being outnumbered 5:1 – It does help having Bunnyman
The coach trip back wasn’t a great deal better, routinely getting soaked from the dripping condensation dependant on what way the bus turned!
We made up for the lack of alcohol when we touched down in Biggleswade and 5 of us paid the Pembroke arms a visit, here we mostly discussed the day and started to work on some new songs:
“All around the fields of Langford road, where once we watched Brett Donnelly play and could he play!” “Craig Daniels on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing about the glory around the fields of Langford road”
Big up to Homer – Dave Simpson – he did a brilliant job in organising the whole day, the bus wasn’t his fault he was let down – and at least it will be something we will always remember
Tuesday against St. Neots will be tough – but come on boys thats one match I can’t be doing with losing
Proud to be a Wader

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The Excitement Builds……

2nd November 2013

No Football today

However a trip to the ‘Carly’ was in order for us hardcore Waders and for many townsfolk and the like who have caught the FA cup bug…
Big Al and I were up early in anticipation and also starting to worry that we might not bag one of the 225 tickets the Waders had been allocated
So at little past 9 we made our way down Langford Road (Unusually we were driving as a trip to Lincoln beckoned on this football free weekend) and entered the clubhouse via the exec entrance rather than the turnstiles. Far from being 1st there, TC and Soulman + flag were at the front of the queue, followed by Colin and his Noisey boys and Wolfy taking up the rear (tickets for mum & dad) Bunnyman and Matty Mouser were just behind us, with Bozza soon to join – We got tickets 41 & 42!
I was good to see the ‘same old faces’ as someone else remarked and we’re certainly starting to get a real buzz about the 9th. Colin and I spent a little time discussing the downsides of fame, its been a ‘nightmare’ since our appearance in the Biggleswade Chronicle Big Al still hasn’t forgiven me for completely blocking him out of the picture – Well that’ll be my ‘orang utan arms’ for you
Sadly Chelsea boy and Tref ‘the armadillo hunter’ are unable to make the 9th due to other commitments (one football the other work ) – So the Green Army will need to make up for their absence – and keep them informed (not sure we’ll be up to Tref’s standards during the Burnham game (he put Jeff Stelling to shame!) in fact I know we won’t but we’ll try
The Waders also made the Daily telegraph today OMG I never thought I’d buy that paper but I did and it was lovely to see Tot’s Tim and the wonderful Elizabeth mentioned – Trust me she’s still watching the mighty Waders
I never EVER disagree with Nunny (he’s a legend in this house!) but I have to say, I’m not going to Stourbridge for a nice day out “win, lose or draw” – I want to see us win and go further in this wonderful cup and I hope I’m not alone… We can do this!!
Am I lookinging forward to 9th??? No, in truth, I’m dreading it – Why? Because I CARE, probably too much – but as Big Al tells me, thats how it get you… The Waders have certainly got this WaderBird, hook line and sinker!!
So good luck to Maurice, Nunny, Captain Fantastic and team:
‘Believe you can and you’re halfway there.’ Theodore Roosevelt
See you on the 9th!!

Also big up to Dave, Brian and Andy for opening up and sorting the tickets / coaches

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“When Gents goes up, to lift the FA cup – we’ll be there…

“We’ll be there!!”
“Donners going to Wembley la la la”

26th October 2013
Waders v Canvey Island 1-0
Attendance – 668
Alcoholic Units – Lost count after 5….
B’s MoM – Craigy D!
Game Rating – 10/10
“We’re in the 1st round, we’re in the 1st round, we’re super Waders, we’re in the 1st round”

Were do I start?.. Big Al was feeling less than confident, Bunnyman and Matty mouser were confident – I was, well, um.. nervous and very unsure??
We met up with half the Green Army (mentioned above) for a drink in the Pembroke on our way down to the Mighty Calsberg! When we arrived at the ground we could here the singing from outside and it was certainly unusual to be greeted by the police…
On entering the bar we were met with the mother of all noise and chanting – Something about being beside the seaside?? Even Bunnyman could not out sing them (that has to be a 1st!) To say we were outnumbered would be an understatement… It was all in good humour however and they were a fabulous bunch of supporters – with a couple of them even coming over and wishing us luck (not to much though!). Our club shirts had arrived – although Cheslsea Boy is still waiting his – and we quickly put them on with pride!! it was also blinkin hot in the club house, so removing our matching Waders hoodies was some relief…
When we made our way outside to set up the flag etc it was good to see so many Biggleswade faces, even our neighbours had come down! Tref had made it, having been in hospital for treatment the day before (what a gladiator!!) – although by the end he was sure some stitches had been split. TC had his lucky green Waders pants on, so he tells us – no-one was willing to check!
In the 1st half it was a pretty tight game; Captain Fantastic, Andy, Mark C and Max were rock solid at the back. MG Lee Allinson and Evan were ‘Bossing’ the midfield and Super Craigy D was running their fullback ragged – Craigy was on absolute ‘fire’ throughout the game in my humble opinion! Both the Reed brothers were as busy as usual working hard chasing every ball. However at half time it was 0-0 and Big Al felt that a fair reflection..
In for a quick beer at half time – and full credit to Crowie, Annette and the rest of the staff for their hard work in coping with so many thirsty fans – they did a sterling job
Behind the goal for the 2nd half – our usual spot was taken! and the Waders certainly picked up the pace – as did the Green Army songs “When Gents goes up, to lift the FA cup – we’ll be there, we’ll be there!!” There were more and more chances being created by us and the turning point was Donners coming on for Sam Reed. Big Al was convinced that it was not going to be our day – however Bozza assured him that we would score any minute….. and as if by magic, Donners stuck in the vital goal in the 80th minute we went mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “Donners going to Wembley, la la la la”.
Not long after we were sure it was 2-0 with a fantastic shot from Craigy – Buunyman and Big Al returned from their celebratory dance feeling pretty stupid on realising it was still 1-0.
It was a nerve racking last few minutes and I’m even told, on good authority, that ‘Mrs Fantastic’ was doing her nut willing the ref to blow for full time!
At the final whistle it felt like we’d won the world cup – what an awesome display!!
A few drinks in the bar after with Chelsea Boy and Big Al – and numerous hugs and kisses with the players (that was just Big Al) and then we staggered home singing our hearts out!
Once again PROUD to be a WADER
Away to Stourbridge Saturday 9th November! They’re currently 6th 10 points ahead of us, so I suppose that makes us the underdogs – but to quote Donner’s yesterday “Every dog has its day!” Let make Nov 9th ours!!!

Ice cold in Corby…

11th December 2013
Corby Town v Waders 1-1
Alcoholic units – 0
B’s MoM – Andy Iwedz
Game rating – 6/10
It was a cold night for football and so we were sure to take plenty of warm clothes with us – Unfortunately the 1 hour journey took Big Al and I an extra 30 minutes due to being clever and avoiding the black cat roundabout… Not so clever it would seem!
Still we managed a quick drive through at Maccy D’s for our tea (Forgotten how good they are) and were pitch side for 7.20pm. I have to say we were very impressed by the ground and a particular steward who was quick to let us know where we could get refreshments etc from – a very nice chap It wasn’t long before we were joined by Craigy D’s mum, dad and I think Craigy’s granddad (I sincerely hope I didn’t get that wrong ) ;then another Wader joined us, who only had to travel from Raunds (didn’t get his name and I’m working on a nick namel). TC did eventually leave the warmth of the committee room and join us – so there were 7!!, not quite a green army more like the TA
I didn’t display the flag – but rest assured it was with us, I didn’t dare as there was no free space where we stood.
The game started brightly with chances at both ends, Craigy D got close with a long range shot smacking the woodwork! On 15 minutes Corby took the lead from a corner but the Waders were quick to retaliate with a Max ‘Delap’ York goal 2 minutes later – It was actually Donners’ goal and he was given the credit for this a good 5 minutes later…. Not that he was bothered of course. Natty P took a nasty tumble into the advertising boards somewhere after 30 minutes and was soon replaced with a feisty looking Joel Mason (good to have him back!)
Later on in the 1st half Lee ‘Smudger’ Smith was lucky not to be sent off for nasty looking tackle – and to be honest I think if the Corby players had not pressured the ref, thus giving him thinking time – I think it would have (and should have) been a straight red; Of course there is nothing big or clever about any of it – but as a fellow ‘short arse’ I did smile when Nunny and the big centre half went toe to toe ; The home support were outraged at the lack of red and so it all felt rather awkward after
1-1 at half time .
We started brighter in the 2nd half with Joel forcing a good save from their keeper. A bit later Evan Key was clearly pulled back in the box for a definite penalty – but the ref didn’t give it, and I have to say I was ok with that, as, it at least evened things up for us following the earlier sending off that wasn’t to be… The game finished with Corby on top but the Waders held on for a well-earned point.
A few of ‘shout outs’ to Corby:
The amazing save by Paul Walker denying our Captain fantastic Stevie G what could have been a super goal.
The Corby sub that very kindly retrieved TC’s burger and chips that the dozy twit dropped over the fence.
The Corby supporter behind the goal who had his own take on the usual goal kick chant – well it amused us
The best announcer of any ground we’ve been to – top job!
Thankfully after freezing our bits off, it was a warm journey home to Biggy in just 50 minutes this time!
Best wishes to Natty P and Craigy who have both now joined the ever expanding sickbay Hope you are both fit soon!!

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Banbury ‘Cross’ the line..

Biggleswade v Banbury 1-2
7th December 2013
Alcoholic units – 3
B’s MoM: Lee Allinson
Game rating: 6/10
Today was to be DJ’s (Big Al’s 16 year old autistic son) 2nd visit to Langford road, the last one was when Leatherhead came to visit… I’ll be honest I was feeling quite negative about it, as we’d got a few missing faces and Twinny was ‘apparently’ suffering from man flu.
It was straight down to Langford road for us as today we had to be responsible adults (well Big Al had to be) oh and we all had to be in place for Donners 200 games presentation..
Most of the Green army massive were about, Chelsea boy, Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, TC, Bozza and Tottenham Tim; Tref the armadillo hunter missing in action and Soulman was AWOL. Martin our neighbour has returned again, but I’m pretty sure this was more about avoiding Xmas shopping with Susan…
Homer had organised the supporters to sign a shirt for Brett and it was great to see that get filled up pretty quickly. I was honoured to walk through the hallowed tunnel and form part of the guard of honour for Brett and then present the shirt to him just behind Big Dave K and Brett’s gorgeous girls
It was straight off after the presentations and a “Yeah cheers” from the man himself..
A minutes silence was held to mark the passing of the late great Nelson Mandela and on the whole this was observed impeccably:
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

The 1st half was pretty uneventful with both sides cancelling out the other, but it was good to see Twinny playing through his man flu and MG Lee Allinson was on super form running the centre of the park well for the Waders.
The 2nd half was a shocker when there looked to be a bad tackle on Alex ‘Aled’ Witham, which then descended into a ‘free for all’ and the red surrounding the ref; the result of which saw Callum Lewis sent off and Lee Allinson booked? So no surprises that within 5 minutes Banbury had scored.
Waders got one back within the next 15 minutes courtesy of a Donners & Max ‘Delap’ York combo… but on the 88th minute the giant Leon Simpson scored and put a stop to our unbeaten run – this despite an extra 11 minutes being added and the shot from MG Lee Allinson that blasted the post.
It wasn’t to be our day sadly and by the end of the match a loss in my opinion wasn’t the fair result, but hey thats football!
It was a shame that a few of the Banbury supporters were pretty ungracious in victory at that end of the match….. really isn’t the spirit of non- league is it?
Still onwards and upwards, Corby on Wednesday at their place and then Hitchin away on Saturday – Hoping to be at both, supporting Nunny’s boys!!

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A blog for Brett

I write a blog on the Waders, not because I think I’m some hotshot sports reporter or pundit – clearly not! I write it because I wanted to capture the whole experience and the characters involved – Someone actually likened it to a soap opera, I’m happy with that.
Life is all about experiences and characters you meet along the way, they’re what shape you and make you what you are today.
My childhood saw sporting stars such as George best, Gazza, IlieNastase,Steve Ovett, etc. Not only did these great idols have a god gifted talent, but they were interesting to watch, they had failings like the rest of us mere mortals but boy did they draw you in… Sadly in this day and age these characters are few and far between, with the new found professionalism and PR slowly sanitising all sporting arenas – Look at tennis now and remember the head banded Mr McEnroe??
“You cannot BE serious!!”
The subject of headbands brings me nicely on to Mr Brett Donnelly… I’m a mere newcomer to the Waders unlike Big Al and Bunnyman who have been supporting them on & off for the last 40 odd years….
My 1st season watching the Waders was (I believe) Bretts 2nd and I have to say I was less than impressed, in fact he was known as Brat and we’d place bets on how long he’d be on before getting booked… Of particular note was the play offs against Daventry Town, when I think Donners lasted a matter of minutes before being sent back to the dressing room with a red card… I was livid L
So how on earth did Donners turn that around for me and others?
There was something about 2011/12 season; suddenly you realised that Donners isn’t some crazy mad eyed player, he’s a crazy, passionate, mad eyed player who puts his ‘ALL’ into it – he hates being on the bench (ask Nunny) and in my humble opinion he has proven time after time to be a game changer…
Let’s move swiftly on to the Rugby play off final; I remember moaning to him on the side line “We need you on Donners” to which he replied “I keep telling the Gaffer!! You tell him!” I think Nunny might have heard as it wasn’t long before he was on and then that fantastic run from Twinny sealed the deal for us.
This season Donners has shone just as brightly and played the higher level with such heart and conviction, it makes me feel like a proud mum older sister J. The fact that he has now played over 200 games for us putting in nearly 80 goals along the way, is simply amazing at this level of football.
We even have a list of songs all for the man himself:
“Who put the ball in Canvey’s net, Donners, Donners!!” We have decided to stick with this version btw.
“Super, Super Brett!”
“All around the fields of Langford road, where once we watched Brett Donnelly play and could he play!” This one, is yet to be sung outside of the Pembroke arms it has to be said…

Of course being the shy and retiring person Brett is, he nods politely in recognition of our hearty verses – Not! He actually requested we took singing lessons, hmm.
Off the pitch Donners is a delight, he always has time to chat and I love that everyone else comes out of the dressing room clean, tidy, neatly dressed and then out comes Donners, hair everywhere, untucked and usually un-ironed (you can always tell, he’ll be wearing a cardigan to hide it, lol).
I have learnt a few things from Donners along the way:

Never open up pictures he posts on twitter
Never ask to see his collection of dolls
Never ask him for a code word
Never upset him on the pitch
Never expect him to think he’s played well (he always plays it down!)
Never ask a question if you’re not prepared for a refreshingly honest answer (I love this)

In years to come when the Green army ‘massive’ are relegated to the stands due to old age & the wrong sort of dribbling (Poor old Matty Mouser will have his hands full), and Brett has long since hung up his Wader boots, I know we will still be talking about Donners and smiling at the great memories.
Now that’s a character and a true legend.
Take a bow Super Brett Donnelly, we love you!!

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By Royal appointment….

3rd December 2013
Waders v Arlesey 2-1
Alcoholic units – 1
B’s MoM – Sam Reed
Game Rating – 6 / 10
Happy December to one and all, and what better way to start this festive month than a local derby against our arch rivals the armadillos’s.. It doesn’t seem like nearly 2 months ago that we were mugged off by this side and as I recall, a particularly obnoxious assistant manager. well how things change, a goal keeper on loan from Watford, a 10 point difference in our favour and a changed management team for Arlesey (every cloud).Earlier today our mighty stadium was graced by Royalty and who’d ever of thought that Prince Charles was a Wader?? Well I think that pretty much makes it official now
Tonight Big Al and I walked to Langford road via the Pembroke (didnt want Sam and Lee Reeds dad to think I was a mad stalke) in order to enjoy the open fire before a cold cold night ahead.The tea cosy was out again (Dave the Rave), told you it was cold! And we were met in the clubhouse by Chelsea boy, Dan & Dad, Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, Bozza & son and TC (or should I now call him Mike from the young ones – to share this joke, you would need to have seen the coat he is now sporting). Apparently Chelsea boys shirt isnt even on order yet?? We are now looking at the January sales.. On leaving the warmth of the club house it was good to see Martin and Emma saving our spot, but not sure where Susan was?? We thought Soulman was AWOL, however he was undercover by the burger Van. It was great to see both Tottenham Tim and Tref the armadillo hunter back in action – but I suppose that was never in doubt for this particular derby.
It was a pretty uneventful 1st half from our vantage point, with just a couple of chances via Lee Smith and Craigy D both hitting the woodwork – and it was pretty gutting to see Mark Coulson go off injured (all the best and get fit soon Mark!!). 0-0 at half time and a change of end for us – when will we learn, standing by the old toilet blocks is a bad and smelly idea
Sadly within minutes of the 2Nd half starting my 0-0 prediction went up the swanny when the armadillo’s hit the back of the net, however someone was very definitely looking down on us as a complete defensive ‘balls up’ gifted us a goal via Natty P (I’ll leave it at that). Arleseys chances were few and far between thanks to our makeshift defence and it has to be said, we had plenty of chances in this half including the excellent Sam Reed hitting the post – Its not good for the nerves. On 73 minutes Lee Smith scored with a looping header from an MG Lee Allinson free kick. Donner’s came on for Lee Reed and the final 15 minutes was seen out with no more goals!!
I thought we could have had more out of the game, but 3 points will do nicely thank-you very much!
On Saturday we take on Banbury at Langford road – they’re just behind us so lets hope for a decent crowd and 3 points.

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Reed all about it

26th November 2013
Alcoholic units – 1
B’s MoM – Sam Reed
Game Rating – 8/10
Sorry for the delay in this blog – this Wader has Bird Flu and it is far more dangerous that the infamous man flu . Big Al and I stopped off at the White hart for our tea on the way to Langford road, and we bumped into Sam and Lee Reeds dad there; apparently the culinary charms of the White hart have spread all the way to Cambridgeshire. It was lovely to hear how the lads have settled in with the Waders and how much they love the team already
5 minutes after we set off on the 20 minute walk to the ground we were delighted to see the ‘bunny-mobile’ appear – we climbed into the warmth joining Bunnyman and Matty mouser, It must have been cold as Dave the Rave have donned his green and white tea cosy . Big Al was greeted by Bozza who gave him a sympathetic North London hug (he was representing the red team), Dan & dad, Joe, Scotty and Terry were less sympathetic it has to be said – the number 6 kept being brought up… Chelsea boy was at the bar (still no shirt).
We joined Soulman outside and it was good to see my neighbours, Susan, Martin and Emma at another game, hoping the Green army bug has bitten
I was less than confident facing the mighty Stourbridge again but the game started brightly for the Waders with plenty of possession but chances were few and far between. Craigy D and Sam Reed worked extremely hard, but Stour were to take 1st blood after 25 minutes. Waders continued the rest of the half in the same stoic fashion but it was to no avail as it finished 1-0.
The 2nd half started with us being much the stronger side, we created plenty of chances this half but could not score. Nunny made some changes bringing on MG Lee Allinson and ‘Game changer’ Donners and on 77 minutes Sam Reeds fantastic work ethic paid off 1-1!!! We pressed for a winner, but on the 90th minutes Stour looked set to ruin our dreams again 2-1… We were inconsolable, but we should have remembered that Nunny’s boys NEVER EVER GIVE UP and in the 93rd Minute Lee Reed was to score the most awesome goal from 30 yards I have to say it was the best celebration this season, especially Brownie running the length of the pich to jump on the player pile up
I think it was a fair result in the end and it was good to show Stour the kind of side we really are.
We couldn’t help but notice Stour’s uber luxurious coach… Bet they didn’t get to play ‘condensation ‘Russian roulette’ on the way home
It was a good result at Toton yesterday 5-1, sadly we couldn’t be there as we were watching the bodyguard in London (which I highly recommend).
Some good games on the way now with plenty of local derby’s, speaking of which see you on Tuesday for Arlesey (Keep calm Tref..)

University Challenged….

28th December 2013
Waders v Cambridge City 1-2
Alcoholic units – 2….
B’s MoM – Ian Brown
Game rating 7 / 10
A surprise meet up in the Pembroke with Bunnyman, Matty mouser, Big Al and Big Dave K on a fresh a bright Saturday lunchtime could mean only one thing – Football and the mighty Langford road!!! Thanks to Big Dave K for my lovely piece of ‘art work’ that is now adorning my kitchen wall – it didn’t feel right to have Donners in my loo watching over proceedings…
After a quick bite to eat and a couple of sherbets, off we went and were greeted by a fairly busy club house. Dan’s dad was minus Dan who had been lured away by the darts; Chelsea boy was there still minus his replica shirt and it was good to see Tot’s Tim about. Soulman brought his teddy bear along to the match – cute until you pressed its belly to reveal loads of lines from ‘TED’ – quality!!
Cambridge won the toss and so we had to do a quick decamp to the ‘Sewage’ end; Susan and Martin made it in just on kick off as there was a queue to get in and cars were being turned away from the car park (the overflow was water logged) – it turned out to be a crowd of 435.
The Waders made a good start but it didn’t take long for the strong Cambridge side to apply the pressure. A hotly contested free kick after a MG Lee Allinson challenge made it 1-0 on 26 minutes – it was a brilliant free kick by their no. 3 James Brighton that went in off the post despite Brownies best efforts. We did have the benefit of video replay via the excellent non-league football TV on YouTube and 20 views later by both Big Al and me, it was no foul – but heyho, such is football.
Waders bounced back and Lee Reed scored just before halftime from a free kick (in the interests of bias, I confess to not watching that challenge back)
The club house was packed to bursting at halftime and it’s the 1st time I have seen such a big queue at Nick’s burger van – not to mention the men’s loo’s (now they know how we feel!)
The 2nd half was a good end to end football display with plenty of chances for both teams; Sadly it wasn’t to be our day and Cambridge secured the lead on 77 minutes, this despite excellent defending from the back four especially Cam Mawer who was outstanding as was my MoM Brownie! It was great to see Craigy D regaining his form after his injury and there was one particular run in the 2nd half that could have been goal of the season had the keeper not saved
The Green army were in top form today albeit slightly down on numbers – John of Wessex and his mate Keith did their behind the goals, although he really needs to remember we’re in Green and not red
Bad luck today Waders, a draw would have been fair but good luck to Cambridge City a very good side who deserve their 2nd place.
Home to St. Albans city on New Year’s day, let’s hope for another big crowd and a cheeky 3 points.
As it was the last game of 2013 all I can say is WOW what a year the Waders have given us – Thank-you Nunny and all the lads

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The Waders have landed…

Boxing day 2013
Bedford Town v Waders 1-5
Alcoholic units – 5 or so….
B’s MoM – MG Lee Alinson
Game rating – 8/10
How glad were we that today’s game was on, after the disappointment of the 21st Most of the Green Army met up in the Pembroke to await our carriage to Bedford Town and exchange Xmas stories… The best story went to Bunnyman & Matty Mouser; with a fridge full to bursting on Xmas Eve Bunnyman did the only sensible thing and sent the turkey to the shed for the night…how was he supposed to know that there would be the 1st sharp frost of the winter??? Cue a frantic run around the following morning after unsuccessfully using the microwave to defrost the over sized bird… Apparently the SPAR was over the moon to sell out of all their chicken that fine Xmas morning – if not a little bemused Anyway the day was saved and dinner was served and it gave us the best laugh this Xmas (yep even better than Big Al in his onesie or TC in his strange purple wig )
It was my 1st visit to the Eyrie and I have to say , I was very impressed with the facilities, fans and staff!! The 6 of us were soon joined by Dan & Dad and there were plenty of other Waders about including Tref, Martin, Susan, Emma, Kel and of course the shy and retiring Colin
Though I say so myself we were all in fine voice and within a minute, were able the sing our version of Jingle bells thanks to Sam Reed – well actually it was after Max Yorks on 6 minutes as we hadn’t made it to the terracing for Sam’s goal!
Bedford did come back on 23 minutes, but Max was on fire and took us to 3-1 27 minutes in! Not to out done Sam made it 4-1 just before the half time whistle and off the Green Army went to lubricate the vocal chords..
In the second half we were joined by more Waders and we sang our hearts out But in all honesty the 2nd half was nowhere near the excitement of the 1st despite Joel’s late goal taking us to 5-1 ( how about Joel’s new song??) – can’t believe John Taylors son had to ask what a discotheque was
it was a great day out, but I’ll be honest I don’t want to see Bedford relegated from this league, so it was bittersweet for me.
Cambridge City come to Langford road on Saturday, I have everything crossed that it will be on.

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If Santa was a Wader….

I’ve been thinking what the Waders Christmas list from Santa would look like, a bit like this I think:
Craigy D – More free flesh – so he can add more ink
Brownie – a Lie in
Scotty – A new drum and lessons
Chelsea boy – A Waders shirt!
Donners – An Iron
Tref – A stuffed armadillo foot stall
Tot’s Tim – Good health and maybe Spurs to pick up?
Dan’s dad – a book deal (to capture all of that great knowledge)
Dan – A Waders pitch for his Sunday team
Crowie – His own pub, on Langford road of course!
Bunnyman – To discover a new star
Matty Mouser – A hat, scarf and gloves – I do worry about him freezing.
Big Al – A new ankle
Gents – His own fitness centre
MG Lee – A gum shield for the next ‘handbags’ moment
Twinny – A ‘Mens health’ modelling deal – now that’s a six pack!
Nunny – The chance to manage England for a day (actually maybe not, they wouldn’t give him back)
Martin, Susan, Emma & Kel – Waders Season tickets.
Soulman – a year subscription to ‘Nuts and a new hip (not related btw)
Cam Mawer – The chance to be invisible for a day (he may then make a visit to some certain ex team ‘mates’)
Mark Coulson – A clean bill of health
Terry – A mirror!!
Max York – A master class with the Harlem globe trotters (for them!)
Alex ‘Aled’ Witham – A helicopter for commuting between Biggy & North London
Sorry but Evan Key, Callum Lewis and anyone not mentioned are getting Socks and maybe a voucher – I’m struggling for ideas??
Dave the Rave – A bobble for his tea cosy
Big Dave K – I think he’s had his (in the form of the latest West Ham wins)
TC – A trip to Vegas
Joel Mason – Pipe and slippers
John of Wessex – A month of hangover free Sundays
Homer – A new tweeting finger and everlasting battery
Colin – A vuvuzela
Mickey J – A book on positive thinking
Annette – A medal!
Sam and Lee Reed – A chauffeur for the week
Sam and Lee’s dad – Above, so he gets a break
Craigy D’s mum – A red card that can be used on anyone daring to foul Craigy D
The Green Army – A cover behind the goal & our very own luxury transportation. Also not wanting to be greedy, but the Waders to stay in this league – because we love the football at this level!
So let’s see who’s been naughty and who’s been nice come the 25th December
Wishing everyone at the club a super Christmas and Fabulous New Year – Thank-you for some brilliant laughs & some great memories in 2013!

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Singing in the rain…..

17th December 2013
Waders v Chesham 3-2
Alcoholic units – 2
B’s MoM – Captain Fantastic Stevie G
Game rating – 9/10
Big Al and I took the executive decision to walk tonight so that we might sample the delights of the Pembroke arms and enjoy the warmth of that open fire. As you may have gathered now, I’m always pretty pessimistic going into these games and so facing the mighty 2nd placed Chesham you might have expected the same from me – but I actually felt that we could have 3 points from this (Maybe it’s the Christmas spirit getting to me..?)
The green army were back in force tonight with Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, TC and Chelsea boy, Emma and Martin returning to the fold. Of course Dan and ‘The Oracle’ his dad were in attendance as were Bozza & Big Dave K. Colin was in good form and keen to discuss the Spurs Liverpool debacle – Poor old Big Al; Tott’s Tim and Soulman had made the wiser call of staying out of the bar…
It was pretty damp and miserable evening but 22 minutes in Donners offered us some light relief in the shape of a scrappy – but who cares – goal… and on, both teams battled, with Chesham being rewarded some 11 minutes later.
1-1 at Half time
Stupidly the green army moved down to the now renamed ‘sewage’ end (and it was pretty potent last night!) and set up camp. Within 5 minutes Chesham were 2-1 up and you began to wonder if tonight would again not be our night?? – where was Bozza ??
The Green army choir was in good voice (Terry and Scotty were nowhere to be seen) and some of the chants were being led by Colin in the seats (Can’t think why we call them the noisey boys) – sure he kept shouting Tottenham??? But as we’ve said so many times before the Waders never EVER give up and like superman coming to save the day, in swooped captain fantastic taking us to 2-2 on 54 minutes!!!
A superb goal from Evan Key on 67 minutes gave us a well-deserved and hard battled 3 points – well done to MG Lee for another superb free kick I thought Captain fantastic was awesome tonight – hence MoM, what a pairing him and the brilliant Cam Mawer are
Brett made a sorry sight limping off the pitch at the end – let’s hope he’s just trying to get out of the Xmas shopping??
We were very grateful for a lift in the bunnymobile at the end of a soaked 2nd half
Frome on Saturday 21st and Bunnyman has promised to wear his Santa hat…
Well done the Waders, it was wet, it was miserable – but boy oh boy were you guys in tune tonight (bit like the Green army ).

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Canaries in tune, Waders not….

14th December 2013
Hitchin Town v Waders 1-0
Alcoholic units – 0
B’s MoM – Lee ‘Smudger’ Smith
Game rating – 3/10
Big Al and I took the executive decision to drive to the game today, as Hitchin holds far too much temptation (Just ask John of Wessex). I loved Hitchin’s ground – it was my 1st visit and whatever it lacked in modern facilities it more than made up for in character and charm that is so sadly missing from many new grounds.
The green army numbers were due to be depleted as Bunnyman was in Merseyside watching some band called the Bunnymen?? Matty Mouser was too ashamed to be seen out with us, TC was doing the in-law thing and Chelsea boy was again sucked in by the bright lights of London..
We shouldn’t have worried to much however as it was good to see Tref ‘the armadillo hunter’ back , Mr Raunds had made to journey down, Craigy D’s family minus mum (I’m guessing she drew the short straw and was Xmas shopping), Soulman & Indieboy and of course Dan and his fabulous ‘font of all non-league knowledge’ dad. Luckily for us Terry (what’s with the new hairstyle??) and Scotty joined Tref and co. behind the goal with their ‘catchy’ new song (NOT) “Jingle” something or other “Waders”… and Brett thinks I’m tone deaf !?!
It was great to see so many other Waders supporters attend – there were faces we didn’t recognise at all, but the Green scarves gave them away
So 6 of us took our places behind our respective flags and it was good to see Joel start, but no Twinny?. Within 2 minutes of kick off, you got a feel for the kind of match it was going to be… Brett and the Hitchin no.2 clashed on the touchline and then exchanged harsh words throughout *I have to say I take my hat off to their no. 2 for holding his own against our strong and intimidating no. 9 – well done for such a young lad (he did also get MoM, which I’m pretty sure Brett would have been the 1stto congratulate him on ..).
Donners did score but sadly it was Callum playing for the Canaries who scored on 30 minutes; The 1sthalf finished 1-0.
Tref very kindly brought his choir to join us in the 2nd half (I’ll remember that) – to be honest theres not much to write about it was pretty poor with lots of Wader possession and few chances despite some awesome Max York throw ins, and MG Lee Allinson corners – Captain fantastic seemed to win every ball from these, but we were unable to pick up the 2nd ball
The game finished 1-0, I think a draw would have been the fair result but weel done to Hitchin their good form continues.
Lee Smith was my MoM because of the sheer effort he put in for the full 90 minutes and some! In my humble opinion we missed Craigy D and Twinny today and the conditions in general didn’t suit us at all
Still onwards and upwards – a tough game for us on Tuesday night against Chesham, see you there!
*It was good to finally meet John of Wessex, albeit 9 pints in (him not us!)

Disapointing Derby…

Waders v St. Neots 2-2
22nd March 2014
Alcoholic units – 2!
B’s MoM – Sam Reed
Game rating – 3/10
Today I was expecting a big crowd and an exciting game… Well considering our average attendance tends to be around the 200 mark, 315 wasn’t bad… as for my other prediction – exciting it wasn’t
Not wanting a repeat of our last Saturday home game Big Al and I had decided not to get to the club before 2.30pm … However a tweet from Matty Mouser showing Bunnyman with a pint in one hand and Waders scarf in the other had us heading for the Pembroke arms slightly ahead of our planned schedule… Imagine the disappointment of arriving to an empty pub, our ‘Fwiends’ having deserted us for Langford road ‘early doors’
The clubhouse was pretty full on arrival and it was nice to see Dave the Rave back at his post Dan and his Dad were about and even Em & M made it to the clubhouse pre-match!
Chelsea boy was missing in action; apparently he was off to watch his namesakes give some North London side a battering…
Tref was also missing in action, apparently armadillo’s stray as far as Edinburgh?
Didn’t really get a chance to catch up with Big Dave K as he was too busy hobnobbing with a ‘celebrity’ I’ll be sure to catch up at the next game!
Typically I’d just got the flag tied (to a decent standard) and the away team won the toss and decided to kick towards ‘Sewage end’… So off we went!
The 1st half was pretty nondescript from both teams, all bar the 43rd minute goal from Super Sam Reed. The 2nd half saw a penalty early on with Browney taking their man down – We couldn’t see what had happened from where we stood, although MG Lee was incensed when he later made his way near us. We we did watch in later, on YouTube, it did seem a fair call.. Soz!
1-1 it was for all of 2 minutes and then Super Sam scored again thanks to the strong arms of Max ‘Delap’ York and a helping head of Captain fantastic. I thought we might have nicked it, but 88 minutes on and it was 2-2
A tough game on Tuesday against Poole Town – I have a real soft spot for this club as we have such a lovely day out there so early on in the season; So hand on heart I’m divided; I don’t want them to go up for selfish reasons (another great away day!) but then I want them to go up as a reward to all their great fans… We’ll see what the next few weeks bring…

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Mugged off by Mid table bores….?

10th March 2014
Waders v St Albans City 0-0
B’s MoM – Andy Iwedz
Alcoholic Units – Not a drop!
Game rating – 7/10
On our arrival Big Al and I were greeted with a nice full club house, Predominantly this was away support but it was good to see a nearly full turn out for the Green army and a few new recruits
Bunnyman, Matty Mouser and Chelsea boy were all in place at the bar, unfortunately Tref the armadillo hunter and TC couldn’t make the actual game due to other commitments (of differing natures). Big Dave K looked a natural behind the bar; I’m thinking Al Murray, pub landlord?
We joined up with Martin (M) outside of the clubhouse, but the Em of Em&M didn’t make it until the 2nd half due to work; now that’s commitment !! Luckily Soulman appeared with his flag in time to remove the rumours he’d chosen Bingo over the Waders and also to save some of our flag embarrassment (prior to this point we were 1 against 3 huge Saints flags!)…
And so the game… In the 1st half we defended well against lots of possession from them and Evan Key had a cracking header that went wide – Bunnyman nearly repeated the goal celebration of Canvey (the goal that wasn’t)
2nd half we came into our own and there were good chances from Woolfy, Evan key hitting the post (I had my blog title sorted ‘Evan Almighty’) and 2 headers from Max, one that was brilliantly saved by their keeper! Speaking of brilliant keepers – how good was Brownie AGAIN!!! One save in second half was reminiscent of that famous Gordon banks save (So Big Al tells me ). Andy and Cam were immense as were the whole back 4 ; in particular some excellent skills from Andy right near us outwitting 2 of the opposition. It was a ‘niggly’ game and you got feeling we were expected to just give in and let them have the 3 points I don’t think so and to quote Tot’s Tim:
“Another team that rock up and think we’re going to roll over, no chance, Waders never give up!”
This feeling was justified when I found this quote from some of their players via the St Albans and Harpenden review; the joint manager had agreed:
“Biggleswade did provide tougher opposition than maybe the management felt them to be.”
In summary:
• I thought there was brilliant support from the Saints fans, especially the hard core and the singing was probably only rivalled by the Canvey Island crew!
• Ref’s rarely get any praise but I have to say that Nigel Smith (looked a little like Collina I thought) was excellent and did well to keep a lid on the game and just give out the 3 bookings – A few times this match had potential to kick off!
• It was a shame at the end as we waited to clap the players off, the bitter comment from one of the Saints players “You’re still mid table and boring!” For me, it kind of soured a good game and wasn’t necessary
In my humble opinion, it was a fair result at the end – we both had chances that were denied by either the crossbar or good goalie…
Oh and I nearly forgot a big shout out to John of Wessex and his lovely lady, who found and returned Big Al’s sunglasses tonight… He’s misplaced them on Saturday night (enough said)
Away to Stourbridge 18th March.
Next Home Game: 22nd March against St. Neots who will be seeking revenge for the 7 goal thriller back in November I’m sure

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Bring on the Dancing Horses….

8th March 2014
Waders v Redditch 0-0
B’s MoM – Andy Iwedz
Alcoholic Units – Even the thought of it makes me ill….
Game rating – 5/10
The last time I watched the Waders was at Utd’s ground in the Beds senior cup on 28th January.. To be fair I hadn’t been expecting the warmest of welcomes there but in actual fact I couldn’t have been more wrong! I was very impressed with everyone and everything I saw Sadly for Utd the Waders walked away 4-0 winners ..
Thanks to the dreadful weather me and Big Al have only managed 3 games this year; the last official home game was Frome 46 days ago!
It wasn’t quite the full crew today, Chelsea boy was lured away to the Big Smoke and John of Wessex didn’t make it past the Whistle and Flute (more on that later). We met up with Bunnyman and Matty Mouser on the way down via the Pembroke Arms…and arrived at Langford road in time to enjoy a couple of refreshments in ‘Happy hour’ – We’d passed a few Redditch fans on the way down in search of a pub and they all seemed in pretty good spirits.
It was good to catch up with Bozza who had returned from holiday the previous Wednesday sporting a much better tan than me (The previous week had seen 3 Waders in Fuerteventura and at the same hotel! Small world and all that…). I was keeping an eye of for Ernie who I work with (St. Ives town season ticket holder) as he had promised to visit and catch up with his ‘old’ mate, the Reed brothers Dad Gordon.. I did eventually catch up with him in the ground, I think he was quite imnpressed .
Martin and Susan made it in time for kick off and joined us along with TC and Soulman.
There wasn’t really a lot to talk about with the game, Captain fantastic was injured and watching from behind the dug out along with our very own ex Waders legend Paul Barnes. I thought both sides were evenly matched and Cam and Andy were brilliant in defence.. but at the end of the day it had nil all written all over it and that’s how it finished – Big Al spoke to a Redditch fan who thought we’d maybe nudged it, but for me it was the fair result (and I’d also predicted 0-0).
We also met Steve Alison a Millwall season ticket holder and his 2 sons, if they don’t have a home game, they will go to a non-league game and he has now been to 202 grounds , his son Teddy 134 and Luke 139 ! What a lovely family and they shared the jar of sweets they won in the raffle (pictured).
After the game it was good to catch up with Big Dave K, Donners and Barney… But after that it all be a bit ‘Pete Tong’ for me and Big Al – we were lured to the Whistle and flute by TC, where we ran into the aforementioned John of Wessex… The rest is a blur, but suffice to say we woke up Sunday, much the worse for wear and skint for the month!
Oh and I forgot to mention Steve is another Echo and the Bunnymen fan – So for a short while there were 2 of them in Biggleswade
St Albans Monday night – Its gonna be a tough game methinks…

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The GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY…

The Bad:
11th January 2014
Chesham v Waders 2-1
B’s MoM – Andy Iwedz
Game rating – 2/10
Big Al and I turned out be the only ‘Green Army’ apart from Tottenham Tim at this 1st game of 2014 for the Waders… Still, we couldn’t miss it as the football drought since 28th December was starting to take its toll on us…
The ground was easy to find and there was plenty of parking, the people we met on the turnstiles and selling programs just outside were friendly as was the lad selling ‘golden goal’ tickets, 67 minutes and 27 minutes were not to be! It was beautiful scenery surrounding the ground and the terracing on the main side was lovely and steep so you could get a great view.
We had a quick chat with Nunny as we manoeuvred ourselves across to the far goal side. Mark Coulson made a sorry sight on his crutches as he starts on his road to recovery…
The match, what can I say – from where we stood there was very little action in our half and the 1stshot on goal was a good 23 minutes in. The fact we finished half time just the 2 goals down was nothing short of amazing. To be fair to the boys this was their 1st outing since 28th and in the 2nd half we saw more of the Waders I’ve come to know and love – and of course you can’t beat a goal from Captain fantastic after a super free kick from the Mid field General himself Lee Allinson!!
The match finished at 2-1 to Chesham and in my humble opinion a draw would not have been a fair result, we were beaten fair and square – still onwards and upwards, you can’t win ‘em all…

The Ugly
18th January 2014
Waders v Eynesbury Rovers (my old team!) in a ‘friendly’ 4-0
Sadly the game against Truro was called off the previous night due to the pitch resembling a scene from the Somme…
Bunnyman, Matty Mouser and Chelsea boy all came down to get their football fix and it was interesting to see a few old players in the Eynesbury side. Mark Coulson was about and looking much more positive its great to see him at every game, lets hope he’s back on the pitch ASAP
Big Al was introduced to the fluff ball that is George, Homers new puppy At times some of the tackles our players suffered was pretty naughty and certainly enough to incense MG Lee… ‘nuff said. I could mention the fabulous mis-kick by Brett, but I’ll leave that (for now). Great goals from Craigy D, Sam Reed, Evan Key and Alex ‘Aled’ Witham. Not a lot else to say really, but it was good to meet up with some of the green army and see the boys in action again.

The Good
21st January 2014
Wader v Frome 2-0
B’s MoM – Ian Brown
Game rating 6 / 10
Alcoholic units – None! It was a school night
It was a chilly old night on the walk down to Langford road, but a warm welcome awaited us from the Green army who were in full attendance tonight; Dan and his dad, Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, Tref ‘the armadillo hunter’, Tottenham Tim, Chelsea boy, Soulman and sneaking in at the rear, just missing our super 1st goal M & Em.. oh and not to mention a surprisingly sober John of Wessex – although still he managed to chant “Red army” more than once..
Chelsea boy’s long awaited shirt had arrived… however it was long sleeved and being a ‘roughy toughy builder type’ this would not do – so the wait continues (maybe next season?)…
As I already mentioned the 1st goal came early; it was via the left foot of Alex ‘Aled’ Witham, curled in from about 20 yards – a brilliant goal! The rest of the 1st half was basically one way traffic and unfortunately for us it was the wrong way. Thank heavens for some fantastic defensive displays from Cam, Stevie G, Andy & Max, who sadly went off injured and was replaced by the equally superb Callum. Brownie was once again just awesome, is there a better goalie in our league? Boy oh boy did these guys put in a shift!
*Not sure what went on as the half time whistle went, but there were a few handbags flying around and MG Lee had one of his now famous ‘full & frank’ discussions with the ref..
The second half saw us move up to the ‘Sewage road’ end and it was a better attacking display from the Waders. Donners came on for Lee Reed and soon made it 2-0 on 67 minutes.. Some reports suggested this goal was a mis-kick? Trust me it was wasn’t, if you wanted to see that, then the Eynesbury rovers friendly was the place to be (I didn’t say I’d never mention it.. ). The Frome no. 2 wasn’t a big fan of the green army , a shame really because we’ve had some brilliant banter with opposing players and it is just banter and meant in good spirit – never mind, Donners had a quiet word. Craigy D was unlucky late on in the game with a brilliant shot that smacked the post!
The game finished at 2-0 much to their goalies disgust; Big Al & I concluded that we’ve played better and lost, sometime you’ve just got to grind out results! Yes I’d be gutted if I was a Frome fan – but ultimately our defence was fantastic and impenetrable hence my MoM choice.
Stourbridge away 25th, we had been debating all week whether or not to go and decided last minute that paying for our holiday was ‘probably’ more important… For once we had a bit of luck as the game was called off minutes before kick-off due to a huge storm..
Biggleswade utd on Tuesday 28th.. Judging by some of the tweets earlier last week, I’m not expecting a warm welcome?

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Arise Sir Nunny….

Well it’s the time of year that our gracious monarch gives out various honours to the most deserving of people for various acts or achievements. So how about our very own Waders honours list in recognition of the achievement of 2013:

Best Goal

Paul Barnes – Last goal; Rugby play off final
Brett Donnelly – Canvey Island; what an important header
Lee Reed – 30yd drive in last seconds against Stourbridge 2-2

Best Cross

Andy Iwedz – Rugby play off final, setting up Barnsey for the winner – great, great run!
Craigy Daniels – Too many to mention

Unsung Hero

Dave ‘Homer’ Simpson – Does so much for the club, always friendly and only he would be forgiven for the school bus debarcle…
Nikki Baker – For putting up with all those lads
Crowie – Barman of the year!!!

Best game

Rugby Play off final
Canvey Island
Chelmsford

Best Hair

Luke Knight – good to See Luke at the Cambridge City game, I wasn’t influenced at all!
Lee Reed
Max York

Funniest Moment

Big Dave K & Tot’s Tims pitch invasion following our win at Rugby – Quality!
Chesham Trophy game – Green army playground humour; I’m pointing no fingers…
St. Neots – Brett & MG Lee’s ‘handbags’ moment
Big Al asking repeatedly what time for the 1st goal, reference a prediction of 0-0 ‘Derr’
Best Green Army ‘song’
“Who put the ball in Canvey’s net”
“Joel Mason – Discoteque”
“Fields of Langford rd”
Best visiting away supporters
Canvey Island – Top tunes and banter (and drank bar dry)
Cambridge City – Biggest crowd of season (league)
Leatherhead
Best away supporters
Poole Town – Brilliant, friendly and welcoming! (Cheap beer)
Stourbridge – Great banter!
Best away Ground
Rugby – Great facilities, great terracing and main stand
Corby Town – Super friendly staff and the best announcer at any of the grounds I’ve visited!
Hitchin Town – Loved the character and charm (not the result)
Most underrated player
MG Lee Allinson
Cam Mawer
Evan Key
All 3 above rarely have a bad game and are consistently superb

Most Improved Player

Andy Iwedz – Simply immense against Leatherhead
Sam Reed – A slow start, now banging in goals for fun!
Max York – Gets better and better, what a throw!

Player of the Year

Stevie ‘Captain Fantastic’ Gentle – Where do I start? This guy leads by example; he’s the kind of leader that if you were in the trenches with him, you’d follow him over the top – and no worries he’d see off the opposition before you arrived! Strong in the air, good in the tackle and even shows up to score the odd goal – Awesome!!
Craig Daniels – So glad to have kept hold of him, what a winger!!
Brett Donnelly – Although not always a starter, I think we all agree, a game changer! This guy gives a damn

As for Chris Nunn, his record speaks for itself – he took over a club at the bottom of the South Midlands and now we’re holding our own at level 3! A thoroughly decent guy always happy to chat and give fans the time of day – what his players think of him and do for him speaks volumes. To us he’s more than a manager, this guy walks on water!

Pies, pints, passion and 3 points!

Waders v Truro 2 – 1
15th April 2014
Alcoholic units – 2 (ish)
B’s MoM – Cam Mawer
Game rating – 7/10
Well I’m happy to report that Big Al, TC, Chelsea boy, Roge, Wessex and Keith all survived the jolly boys outing to Bashley on Saturday! The latter being fairly worse for wear and his immortal words keep being replayed “Hit the horse”?? I did tweet a couple of things I have taken on board from Big Al’s tales; These involving the coach Loo’s and Krispy Kremes… not necessarily together or related you understand
A swift one in the Pembroke Arms for Big Al and I tonight en route to the mighty Lanford road stadium. No Bunnyman and Matty Mouser tonight – here’s hoping they weren’t fishing for mobile phones…? Loo’s and phone don’t mix, eh Pete?
On arrival it was good to see a decent amount of support for the travelling Truro, I’ll be honest I didn’t think there would be above a couple of people – so fair play Chelsea boy, Soulman, Bozza, Handlebar, TC and Em& M along with us made up our green army… I had a brief chat with Big Dave K who has just returned from the dessert and supporting his wife who was running 6 marathons Colin and the noisey boys were in residence and his chant of Tottenham has now – you’ll be pleased to hear – become Liverpool… Roy was about (sans Dan), but he stood with his mate in the away support ‘end’.
Gunns Bakery provided Bedfordshire clangers tonight and from where I stood (we had 3!) I’ll be surprised if they didn’t sell out – I hope this catches on as they were really popular and tasty, and as Bg Al tells me – you’re supposed to have pies at the football..
We kicked off towards burger van end and from the off it was clear that truro were no mugs! In fact a good portion of the game was spent looking towards the ‘Bel end’… Stand in Captain Craigy D took us to 1-0 at 9 minutes but this was swiftly followed by a fantastic strike for the equaliser withing the minute… lee Allison was on fire tonight and took us ahead on 24 minutes,direct from a corner.
The second half saw the green Army take residence in the Bel end stand – I have to say the smell of sewage was particularly potent this evening… We are loving this stand and it was nice to have the shelter as it was a cold evening – Big thanks to Soulman for lending me his Jacket Chelsea boy won an Easter egg in the raffle!
A disagreement kicked off between MG Lee Allinson and Peacock I’ll be honest I couldn’t see what was behind it all, but fair play to Cam Mawer who was straight in and diffused the situation along with Captain Craigy; Cam is a bit of an unsung hero of the Green Army and tonight only strengthened our admiration and respect for him as a player and a person! Needless to say Nunny quickly subbed both players (it looked like one was planned anyway). Lee was less than happy but when he came past us , as ever he was appreciative of the support, now there is a passionate and committed player The match finished 2-1
Following on from his Bingo absence of last week in which Soulman managed to get a full house, he also tonight bagged himself TC’s impossible score forecast (joint with Handlbar I believe) tonight ..
Bideford at Langford Road on Saturday 19th April – Hoping the Green Army will be in full attendance!

Two birds, 5 goals, 3 points!

Waders v Hitchin 3 – 2
10th April 2014
Alcoholic units – 2 (ish)
B’s MoM – (MG) Lee Allinson
Game rating – 8/10
Big Al and I decided on tea in the White Hart tonight, where we then met up with Bunnyman and Matty Mouser for a couple of ‘Sherberts’… Whilst we sat putting the world to rights the Reeds bros M&D Gordon and Carole also popped in to sample the culinary delights of our good old local boozer… We then also caught sight of Soulman who was desperately trying to sneak past the window avoiding our stares – of course this was futile and once he realised this he came and ‘fessed up’ to foregoing his season ticket tonight in favour of – wait for it – BINGO!
Burger devoured (Very nice too, thanks Rob) the 4 of us set off for the mighty Langford road stadium.
Dave the Rave was on the turnstiles (it’s good to have him back) and contrary to what another fair-weather (ex) fan (yes it is meant to be singular) might claim, I got both a ‘thank’ and a ‘you’ and a smile! In my experience you tend to get back what you put in with people oh and lets not forget, none of the committee are paid for what they do (to my knowledge)… If you’re wondering what I am on about, then you obviously didn’t read a particular bitter and personal couple of blogs about BWTFC from someone who clearly was never a real fan:
“I’m still very angry about the total disregard and apathy shown by the previous shower and I know it’s petty, but I found it highly amusing to watch them lose yesterday.”
Apparently he was less than impressed that his blog had been left out of the program for the Corby match (for a 2nd time), He must have been horrified to see that mine had been included, being so inferior and all that – which btw I am not precious or bothered by, my blog is my experiences of being a Wader fan and is not done to kiss arse and get in the programme. That being said I will do my best never to be so personal about individuals, because you never know what is going on behind closed doors.. I wonder if he would have been so brutal had he realised what DtR has been going through these last months? Oh and I always remember the tweet from Mr Wader criticizing Twinny last season – I think it’s fair to say that Twinny’s performance has more than shown him to be one of the strongest links this team has..
Anyway back to Mr Bitter, he had some valid points but to be glad to watch us lose was very disrespectful to Nunny, the team and to us the Green Army who had nothing to do with his precious blog being left out of the program..

“I am tempted to continue and really slate BTFC, but they really are not worth the time, trouble and effort.”
For me the Waders will always be worth the time trouble and effort – win lose or draw
Sorry about that, I’ve waited nearly a week to get that off my chest!
Chelsea boy was in attendance sporting his new Waders top, which unsurprisingly he sourced himself via ebay! Roy and Dan were in attendance as were Em&M.. We were kicking towards the sewage end 1st half and so off we went joined by Bozza to christen the Bel end stand (which now has a floor). Bunnyman had to stand right at the end as his preferred position is just around the corner and not behind the goal.
Hitchin made a bright start but created few chances, Lee Allinson scored on the 13th minute and celebrated in front of the ‘Bel end’ much to our appreciation that is how it remained for the rest of the half with our defence holding firm and not letting the canaries through. Just 3 minutes into the 2nd half the Waders were given a hotly disputed penalty which Mid field General Lee dispatched pefectly Hitchin pulled one back to make us 2-1 on 67 minutes but he Waders restored the 2 goal advantage after a Canary mistake gifted the ball to Super Sam Reed – who hit a great shot
Hitchin are no mugs though and made it 3-2 late on – The Waders held firm for a good and deserved victory.
I think the amount of games having to be played by both teams is starting to take its toll – but the line we had tonight was strong and fearless
Away to Bashley Saturday and while I am out in London with Waderchick; Big Al, Wessex, TC, Chelasea boy and probably Em&M are hitting the new forrest on a jollyboys outing – Oh Pray!

Not Our Greatest Day…

Waders v Corby Town 0 – 1
5th April 2014
Alcoholic units – 0!!!!!!
B’s MoM – Max Yorke
Game rating – 3/10

Big Al and I met up with Bunnyman in the Pembroke arms having just apparently ignored Bozza whilst putting on our national bets (get in there doubleseven); Matty mouser it seems had chosen fish over football today..
It was good to see Chelseaboy had chosen the Waders over the Bridge today although he may well have thought differently after today’s game
Today I was in a ‘Never touching alcohol again’ haze and the sight of TC and Homer brought it all back… Cosmo’s , new kits… Blank… Woke up (eventually) bruised after apparently practising a Browney backward flip with a wall… and apparently according to Big Al I’m much heavier than I look “How rude”… Oh the shame – soft drinks for me from now on
Dan’s dad (Roy)but no Dan today, he’d chosen Tangerine over Green, bet that was worth the 6 hour journey on a Friday night.. At least we’d only got the slow 20 minute walk home – well we had to go via ASDA as Bunnyman had strict instructions to pick up, erm, now what was it? Red stripe and apples for tea…?
It was Su & M in attendance today and I mention this only because the Corby strip did not impress any of the ‘menfolk’ in the GreenArmy, myself and Su couldn’t see the problem with a pink kit.. Although clearly ‘Handlebar’ knows a thing or 2 about his colours as he corrected me with Salmon pink not just pink…? He was then quick to say in his day (“During the war”) most of the squad would have refused to play in it
Ok, I’ve avoided the match for as long as possible – here goes; in my humble opinion I didn’t think any of us were particularly at the races today (me included!). Cam and Max stood out for me, although I wasn’t rocking the eye patch Max. It was a game of few chances and Corby took the lead on 28 minutes and to be honest never looked like they were going to lose it. Max Yorke came close for us with a shot that forced a fine save from their keeper. Natty P, Evan and Lee came off for Donners (Sans ponytail ) Craigy D and Joel. Craigy D had a good chance that went wide and towards the end Captain Fantastic pushed up but to no avail. Donners even resorted to eating his shirt after putting a ball wide..
Today just wasn’t to be, so we drop to just below the halfway mark at 15th – Still not bad when you think how far we’ve come and let’s not forget what a season we’ve had, the Waders have made some brilliant memories for the Green Army and for that we thank-you!
So comical moments at the end of the match – TC unable to read his own writing and so decipher who’d won the sweepstake
And a ‘Zip off’ between Big Al and Bunnyman on the way home – you’d have to be an annorak to understand or a long suffering partner of an annorak … but lets just say I think Trains beat stars on this one occasion, zzz
Onwards and Upwards – Banbury at their place Tuesday 8th & Home to Hitchin Thursday 10th.

Nobody’s Fools…

Waders v AFC Totton 1 -1
1st April 2014
Alcoholic units – 2
B’s MoM – Craigy D
Game rating – 8/10
Prior to this game, the talk had been that this was one we should ‘easily’ win I never take anything for granted and when it comes to football predictions, I err on the side of caution – or as Big Al might say I’m a bloody pessimist! Anyhow it was lovely evening and we met up with Bunnyman and Matty Mouser in the Pembroke arms for a swift one before we made our way to the mighty Langford road stadium
Last week Homer had promised us the new stand would be in place tonight; So when Big Al received the text informing him, and I quote, “The Bel End has been erected” we were all keen to see if indeed it was in place or Big Al is still getting messages from the ‘pink flamingo club’ I think it’s fair to say it was with some relief that yes indeed the new stand was in place behind the goal at ‘sewage end’. The stand was needed for us to qualify to play at Level 3
The green army were in force tonight, Bozza, Chelsea boy and TC all retuned to the fold along with Soulman, Em&M, Dan and Dad and the 4 of us. Homer popped out to warn me about Donners hair – braided??? That Lee Smith has a lot to answer for, 1st Sam now Brett After a nice catch up with everyone – and well done to Dan on passing his final set of exams!! – we made our way out and it was a nice change to start at ‘burger van’ end… I should also mention Brett was not only sporting braids, but also a ponytail
I thought Totton looked like they wanted it more than us in the start of the game and Roy (Dans dad) had warned me that their form over the last 6 games was not to be sniffed at – and trust me this guy is quite literally the font of all footballing knowledge So lets be honest it was no surprise when they scored on 12 minutes… Oops! On 39 minutes after a Natty P pass, the ball deflected off a Donners BRAID and into the goal giving us the equaliser (Well that’s how I saw it)
Totton kept up the pace in the second half but our defence held strong, as did theirs denying Joel Mason 2 great attempts. I think Craigy D might have got a knock as he was substituted despite having a really good game. The match finished as Wader’s draw number 16…
Annoying as it is to have another draw, it was a fair reflection on what I thought was a really good match; and let’s be honest as my St. Ives mate Ernie said:
“If someone had said at the end of last season we’ll be mid table and in a cup final – I’d have taken it and it’s the same for you?” and as is usually the way he is quite right, and let’s not forget that great FA cup run we had This season really has been the stuff of dreams and just 8 more games to go
We entertain the Steelmen on Saturday 5th – Let’s hope we have Green Army in full attendance, after all we only 3 more Saturday home games left!

Many Happy Returns?

Waders v Poole Town 2 – 2
24th March 2014
Alcoholic units – 0!
B’s MoM – Sam Reed
Game rating – 7/10
I’ll be honest I attended this game fully expecting us to lose, not as a reflection on us but more the run Poole Town have been on and remembering our 1st meeting…
Not many of the Green army were about tonight; Matty Mouser, TC, Soulman and Bunnyman were all missing in action. So it was left to Em&M and Dan and his dad to keep Big Al and me company
It was good to see a handful of the Poole faithful had made the long journey up and we had a good chat with one guy who was keen to tell us of the improvements to their ground.
We took our places at the sewage end Donners took us to 1-0 on 15 minutes but there was always another goal coming in the 1st half despite our super defending and so it was a surprise that this came via a penalty… 1-1
The second half saw Poole take the lead on 56 and over the next 10 or so minutes I started to think here we go again… But silly me, we never give up and I thought we’d equalised thanks to a Sam Reed header on 68 minutes but my eyesight clearly isn’t what it once was! But that was all the Green Army needed to feel buoyed up again. Natty P and Russ came on for MG Lee and Smudger (hope they’re ok?) and we pushed Poole hard. On 88 minutes Sam Reed scored from a 30 yard free kick – OMG!! I’m no pundit, but as a fan WOW, what a goal
So yes it was another draw, but it was a hard game and the fair result in my humble opinion.
So home I went with a happy heart, oh and a Wader mug which, by the way, makes the tea taste so much sweeter

No apology required..

Waders v Bideford 3 – 0
19th April 2014
Alcoholic units – 2??…
B’s MoM – Mark Coulson
Game rating – 8/10
For me apart from the obvious – the best bit about today was our usual pre-match meet up in the Pembroke. When we arrived there was evidence of the bunnyman (see the photo) but he was nowhere to be seen … it later transpired that he’d been there a good hour before me and Big Al and so was clearly powdering his nose; and no that doesn’t involve any substances other than lager! Clearly Bunnyman was pleased to see us as he was missing his wingman Matty Mouser who’d taken leave to visit our beloved Scouseland. We were then also – unexpectedly – joined by Chelsea boy who chose Waders over Chelski closely followed by Dan and then not long after, Roy – I do hope the landlord is appreciating the Green pound . After a couple, the 4 of us left Dan and Roy and started the March down to Langford road… It would seem a fortuitous move as Wessex and ‘Hit the Horse’ Keith invaded the Pembroke shortly after…
Neither side got on top during the 1st half hour, each cancelling out the other – Russ Short gave us the lead on 32 minutes following a corner ball. The second half saw the Green Army enter the Bel end and the tempo take a step up… all this and a missed penalty…. Craigy D made it 2-0 on 60 minutes with some awesome football and Lee Reed put the match to bed on 76 minutes, payback for his efforts during the game.
Mark Coulson returned to the field of dreams on 84 minutes following over 4 months of injury – During this time I can’t remember many matches that he hasn’t attended to support the team – That’s a true Wader and a gent!
Can’t believe just one more home game to go this season
Well done lads!

We love you Waders we do, oh Waders we love you!

Waders v Hemel Hempstead (the SPL Champions!) 5-2
26th April 2014
Alcoholic units – 2… (seriously!)
B’s MoM – Craigy D
Game rating – 10/10
Today I had to meet up with the Green Army at Langford road due to a stupidly scheduled hair cut! Luckily for me Soulman saw me making my way and gave me a lift – How nice to be greeted by a full clubhouse and a glass of chilled pinot … Everyone was in place, M&Em, Roy and Dan who’d brought their flag (last seen at Hitchin) and a rattle… TC had insisted everyone bring a musical instrument? Handlebar, Bunnyman, MattyMouser, of course Big Al (with his son DJ), Bozza & ChrisB, Wessex and ‘Hit the horse’… The place was buzzing!
We were kicking toward Burger van end and so most of the Hemel fans took residence in the ‘Bel End’ – which they did insist on calling the bus stop… Wasn’t sure if that was a clever throw back to some of the Slough banter from the FA cup qualifying defeat “You’re just a bus stop in Bedford” or the fact that the ‘Bel End’ kinda looks like a bus stop ha ha
Hemel looked like giants, especially their number 6! I’d predicted 0-0 (Big Al had predict us losing 4-2!) but this was only because my hearty will not allow me to bet against my beloved Waders..
Now contrary to the match report and taking nothing away from the awesome Hemel side.. I did not think we deserved to be 2-0 down on 30 minutes and it certainly wasn’t men against boys – I was however at this point thinking oh pray !! It’s gonna be one of those games and just one more goal before half time would see even the resilient Waders struggle to ‘Never give up’ GULP!
At this point Soulman decided to dispense with the wooden spoon and container lid (his instruments of choice)… However Chelsea boy was not to be perturbed and kept squeezing that horn…
Did I mention that M’s vuvuzela had been confiscated before he left the house…
Fear not Lee Reed was to provide the other goal thanks to some super skills on 41 minutes and the mighty Evan Key ‘unlocked’ the game right on half time with a crucial goal!!!!
Half time was lively to say the least and the loudest banter since Canvey came to visit (in my time) – What a great bunch of supporters! And I’m guessing having had the presentation last week, we were seeing the ‘proper’ supporters who support through good times and bad
So the 2nd half saw the green army take their rightful place in the ‘Bel end’ behind 3 proud flags! Let the noise, I mean singing commence…
It was neck and neck through the 2nd half with everyone playing out of their skin, it is difficult to picking anyone out but Craig D, Twinny, MG Lee and Lee Reed were on fire; Browney, Cam, Evan, Donners and Sam were awesome – and as I’ve come to expect so many time this last season Donners took us 3-2 up just after 70 minutes which earned him several renditions of “Who put the ball in Canvey’s net” – I think we might have even got it right once.. Craigy D did the impossible and made it 4-2 on 87 minutes (Didn’t you have 4-2 Big Al??..)
Forgot to mention by now, Woolfy, Joel and Couls were on and did nothing to dilute the tempo…
I could not belive what I was seeing when Joel skilled his way past and made the final score 5-2!!!!!!!!!!! I even got to be part of the goal celebrations
WOW WOW WOW!!!! We were all literally buzzing after this and it’s taken me and Big Al days to come back down to earth. Like I said earlier, this takes nothing away from the Mighty Hemel, they were great and worthy champions!– but this was the day that made right all of those draws at home and some of the losses that we just didn’t deserve – Thank-you lady luck and an even Bigger thank-you to the main man Nunny (and his crew)
This game will be one I remember for years to come; It sums it up when you hear so many different ‘man of matches’ chosen and you can’t argue with any of them. Today had everything including fantastic support from both sides – I think all of our voices were hoarse at the end of it… Special mention to ChrisB(ozza) for leading the choir and adding to our ‘repertoire’
Shame Captain Fantastic couldn’t be there – lots of love a best wishes being sent to ‘Mrs Fantastic’ Get well soon!xx

“Chrissy Nunn’s green and White Army”

Sadly we have reached the end of the 2013/14 season our 1stin the SPL and boy oh boy we weren’t disappointed! So many great memories both off and on the pitch from the players, the management team and supporters alike
I thinks it’s fair to say, a cautious start was made to the season; from that fateful 1st home match to Bashley where we only managed a goalless draw – although how excited we all were to see our beloved Waders score update on soccer Saturday! Cambridge City was our 1st away day and proved to be a nail biter where Browney provided us with the start of a what was to be a season of great performances and steady hands not forgetting MG Lee Allinson’s super chip from just outside the area
Alas the long journey to Bideford (Me & Big Al followed this via twitter in a Norfolk pub garden) was to result in another draw. A good 4-1 win over Bedford town at the Langford road stadium was to be our 1st win in the SPL and also provided the 1st opportunity to buy a replica shirt… more on that later August 31st saw me, Big Al, Chelsea boy and ex pat Duffy spend a fantastic sunny afternoon at Poole – even the 2-1 defeat couldn’t dampen our spirits, what a great club and supporters 2 disappointing home games followed drawing to Burnham and losing 1-0 to Hungerford.
Big Al and I missed 2 FA cup 1st round qualifying games whilst sunning ourselves in Majorca (no replica shirts!) – Luckily John of Wessex provided the vital commentary via twitter, for which we were most grateful. Another draw was provided at Redditch away whilst we made our way back to sunny Blighty..?
The 2nd round qualifying saw us beat Chelmsford at home 2-0, leading to the Chelmsford supporters giving their team ‘what for’… This was also the match that would hear “Donners going to Wembley la la la la” for the 1st time – Who knew Bunnyman was so musical
Arlesey away was a 3-2 loss marred by a poor referee and the disgraceful taunting of our players, especially Cam, by the Arlesey ‘management team’ Fair play to Cam who showed dignity and class, this would not be the 1st time . This is also where Tref got christened ‘The Armadillo hunter’
Home to Weymouth in October was to provide our 2nd league win this season – and the 1st time this season that me and Big Al would be the last ones standing in the club house after the game
The cup run gathered momentum with a fantastic 5-1 win over Leatherhead and a good crowd – The Green army had started to dream. Chesham in the FA Trophy was the next home game which we lost but who cares, our eyes were on the big PRIZE
Who can forget the fabulous Canvey game, not sure I ever will – from the moment we walked into a packed club house, we knew this was going to be something special, not least because our shirts had arrived (not Chelsea boys..), Donner’s winning goal and Big Al & bunnymans goal celebration that wasn’t, much to Matty Mousers disgust “Who put the ball in Canvey’s net, Donners, Donners!!” was born as well as “When Gents goes up, to lift the FA cup – we’ll be there!”… October finished with a good away win at Burnham which we did not make.
November Saw us play the mighty Stourbridge twice – the 1st meeting seeing us drop out of the FA cup 4-1 – but will the Green Army ever forget the school bus? Or the noise we made or the Russian roulette we played with the condensation best still piling back to the Pembroke with Bunnyman, Big Al, Matter Mouser and TC to work on some more songs … “There only 5 of us singing!!” Away to St.Neots was a 7 goal thriller and just the medicine we needed we were to finished November with 3 more draws and a win.
December; It was good to beat Arlesey at our place but disappointing to lose to Banbury who weren’t the most pleasant of supporters (to be fair like most things it was just a few) A freezing cold Corby away day saw us draw again, no such luck at Hitchin where Brett’s brother took first blood – but we went into Xmas with a win against Chesham under our belts.
Boxing day was a brilliant away day for the green Army at Bedford Town – with the usual suspects (and Homer) being picked up from our favourite watering hole the Pembroke Arms what a great day we had, 5-1 helped although I for one, did not want to see Bedford drop out of the SPL . The year finished with a defeat at home to Cambridge City – who to be fair were looking ‘on fire’.
The new year brought buckets of rain and severely impacted fixtures – I’ll be honest I really started to lose momentum and I wasn’t alone
January only saw 2 league games – Chesham away was 1st after 13 long days, there weren’t many of us stood out there in the cold, at 1 point just me Big Al and Gordy & Carol; It wasn’t a pretty game by any means and no surprise we came away with no points. The rain meant it was to be another big gap in games, but thankfully we beat Frome at home.
February also saw just the 2 matches, both away; A beating from Hemel and a nil all draw with Frome.
March was to see 5 draws, a win and a loss; St Albans were less than impressed to be held to a draw by us?
9 matches were played in April to catch up the shortfall 5 wins, just the one draw and 3 losses – but what a way to finish, beating the champions 5-2!!
So how about some End of Season awards? – Please be aware these are my thoughts (with some green army input) and in no way associated with the club or committee:
Biggest Wader Gob
Bunnyman
Waders preferred Watering hole (pre-match)

Pembroke Arms
Funniest Quote
“He’s t!tting her up!”
Closely followed by
“Hit the Hooorse!”
Best Laugh at a game
Chesham Trophy game – Green army playground humour (see above); I’m pointing no fingers…
Biggest Anoraks
To close to call between Big Al and Bunnyman
Most knowledgeable non leaguer
Dan’s dad Roy (what he doesn’t know, isn’t worth knowing!)
Most patient Wader
Chelsea Boy – Still waiting for his replica shirt
Matty Mouser – for putting up with us oldies
Knight In Shining Amour
Soulman, for saving me on more than 1 occasion!
Best Goal
Lee Reed – 30yd drive in last seconds against Stourbridge 2-2
Best Save
The Bashley away game from a Cam Mawer header
Unsung Hero
Dave ‘Homer’ Simpson – Does so much for the club, always friendly and only he would be forgiven for the school bus debarcle…
Best game
Last game of season win against Hemel
Canvey Island
Best Hair
Lee Reed
Donners
3. Lee Smith, Sam Reed
Best present
The photo of Bretts ‘200th’ presentation via Big Dave K – which has pride of place on the wall at home (not the loo!)
Best Banter
Joel Mason
Best Green Army ‘song’
“Joel Mason – Discotheque”
Best visiting away supporters
Canvey Island – Top tunes and banter (and drank bar dry)
Hemel
Best away supporters
Poole Town – Brilliant, friendly and welcoming! (Cheap beer)
Stourbridge – Great banter!
Best away Ground
Hitchin Town – Loved the character and charm, a proper old fashioned non-league ground!
Most underrated player
Cam Mawer
Waders Legend (s)
Brett Donnelly (Where to start??) and of course Captain Fantastic. Credit to the club and a true leader on and off the pitch.
Player of the Year
Based on how many MoM’s I awarded in the 36 games I watched
Browney, Sam Reed & Twinny all got 5
Craig Daniels & Lee Allinson received 4 each
Lee Reed got 3
So if I had to pick out of the top 3 – for me it has to be Twinny as he’s been immense and the couple of hugs I’ve received from him have done nothing to influence this…
Best Manager in the SPL (& probably the world)
No contest really! Chris Nunn is a living legend I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – this guy can do no wrong! – This time last year, promotion to the SPL and finishing 9th place in it, not to mention the FA cup run we had, would have been too much to even imagine; Well we did more than imagine it – we the Green Army lived and loved every second of it On top of all of that Mr Nunn is a TOP BLOKE, never to busy or important for a chat and a laugh
I have had a blast this season and would like thank the all of the Green Army for making it such a pleasure, I have met some brilliant people and made made some very special friends and I’m sorry I haven’t mentioned every single one of you – I do have a day job and wanted to get this done before Friday 16th, and the pub is calling!
Thankyou Maurice & Thankyou Waders for the best season ever!!
2014/15 SEASON
Things can only get better….?

Biggleswade V Chippenham 0-2
9th August 2014
Alcohol units – 3 pints of lovely cider
B’s Man Of the Match – Lee Reed
Game rating – 3/10
Attendance – 135 (5 less than our 1st Game last season)

Before I get started on my 2nd season blog – A big thanks to everyone who helped make it 8300 views I never thought anyone would be that bothered with what I have to write (Pretty sure Big Al was at least 3000 of them). As I write this one today I’m also looking back on our 1st game in the SPL last season against Bashley where we drew 0-0; a result we were to kick ourselves for several times as the season progressed….

This year Chelsea boy, Bunnyman, Matty Mouser, Em & M, Blackpool Dan, Roy, Big Al and I have all armed ourselves with season tickets. A bargain we thought at £165; £15 more expensive than last season but we were assured entry was going up from £10 to £12…
Bunnyman & Matty mouser are away for the 1st 2 games of the season (Last time Bunnyman had driven back from Devon to make the 1st game, this time the call of clear skies and stars would appear to be stronger the Green army ) So instead of meeting up in the Pemmy we took a slow stroll down to Langford Rd in order to enjoy the refreshments on offer there. How times change a year ago it was a bacon butty in the Conny club – The Pembroke Arms did end up as our preferred pre footy drinks meeting place – however this season the venue is up for grabs as our Wader piggy banks feel the squeeze!
Last year I said the following on arrival at the mighty Waders “It felt great walking through the turnstiles having flashed the season ticket, but I must confess to being a little disappointed when I saw that there were not the hundreds of people I expected to be there.” It was kinda the same this year although the turnstiles weren’t open when we arrived at 1.25pm, so we snuck in the ‘officials entrance’ giving Crowie a shout as we made our way to the empty bar.
Crowie was his usual positive self (he makes me look like Bonnie Langford – one for the kids) but no-one pours a pint and dishes out banter like our favourite barman!
Bozza & ChrisB came in to set up the club shop (a table in the bar still…) it must be frustrating for them , last year’s shirt is still on sale for last year’s price (apparently the new shirts aren’t available until the Dorchester match – Déjà vu anyone?) and the usual ‘selection’ of scarves, a bear and um, in the loosest sense of the word – programmes; oh dear oh dear the programme wasn’t the best and even featured my blog from 1st April. To be fair Homer had been let down at the last minute by the people who do the programmes and so had to knock up what he could with little time to spare – we know that, but others especially the away support don’t and it doesn’t look very good .
Dave the Rave was making another appearance on the turnstiles (he has actually stepped down, but needs must), but he took the chance for a chat before taking up his position.
Soulman (can you believe he forgot his flag! ) and Chelseaboy were in attendance, Blackpool Dan and Roy weren’t far behind (with flag! ). Big Dave K and his mate came over and sat with me and we had a good natter – BDK also explained to his mate about my blog and how he waits on a Sunday morning for its publication – the timing he reckons, dependant on how good a night I had… Hence I am up at an ungodly hour writing this; Oh the pressure
Em & M were last in and so a slightly depleted Green army assembled we made our way out to the burger van end and erected our flags… well kind of tied them using laces and my new Velcro tie wraps.
Notice how I’m avoiding the match? Even for me this is light… Well, here goes – And please understand in everything I am about to say we lost fair and square, no excuses, on the day they were better than us and penalised us with 2 good goals…
A bit like the 3 friendlies and the Luton cup game Monday night, I didn’t feel like we ever really turned up? MG Lee was suspended and Twinny never made it off the bench (Well he did actually at half time, and he gave me my 1st hug of the season ). We were pretty solid at the back (bar the 2 goals) but never really looked like scoring. Chippenham went 1-0 up on 16 minutes after a free header. Now onto the ref – what a shocker he had (for both sides), I was really impressed last year with the standard of the officials (I think there was just the one match where it was dubious) of particular note was the incident that occurred right under our noses Sam Reed was taken out by their no.3 (no. 3 thought he was playing rugby most of the match) and the ref booked Sam??
Waders struggled to find any response to the goal and 1st half finished 1-0.
You can only imagine the mood in the club house with 1 older gent being particularly vocal reference the concession price and how he wouldn’t be coming again and would rather go watch Arlesey – Yeah, ok – don’t let the door hit you on the way out! We might not always get it right as a club and us fans will have a moan and a whinge at times, but it’s our club, we support through good and bad and don’t you just hate hearing it from someone else – it’s a bit like someone criticizing your kids – you can, they cant!
The second half saw us take residence in the Bel End and we did manage 1 chant as a response to a much better Wader performance – At this point I would have gladly taken a draw , but a late goal from Chippenham took the game to 2-0 and out of our reach.
It was with heavy hearts we left Langford road, lets hope for a better result Tuesday night against Histon…
Like I say in the title things can only get better
Oh and yes I miss Donners You didn’t really think I’d do a blog and not mention him did you..

(Red &) Black is the new Orange….

Biggleswade V Histon 1-1

12th August 2014
Alcohol units – 2
B’s Man Of the Match – Ian Brown
Game rating – 5/10
Attendance – 165
Tonight Big Al and I tried the delights of the newly refurbished ‘New Inn’ before making our way to Lanford road – very nice, but not a cheap round!

Dave the Rave greeted us at the turnstiles and in we went! No Soulman tonight; he chose 2 fat ladies over legs eleven.

Chelseaboy, Blackpool Dan, Roy, Em&M, Bozza, ChrisB and John of Wessex were all in attendance as was BDK who was apparently delighted to have got me up early Sunday 10th… You will notice Histon was much more delayed.
It was good to see my Cambridge Utd mate make his 2nd visit to Langford road tonight, with 2 kids and a Histon fan in tow
Now, prior to this game a number of my Cambridge mates (including the aforementioned) have been quick to inform me of what a sorry old side Histon are this season…
The match saw a much better show from the Waders and bang on 16 minutes Evan Key made it 1-0, it was another good display from defense and I thought Twinny and Browney were both superb tonight – with Browney making a couple of awesome saves!! . MG Lee was still suspended and as with the 1st game I felt we really missed his presence on the field.
The second half saw us take residence in the Bel End and Blackpool Dan shared his win on the raffle – two wins in a row now Roy got the wine last week! Point of note, Em is the only person I know who likes the orange soft centres ???
77 minutes in and Histon took us to a draw – it was difficult to see from the Bel end, but Big Al took a wander later and apparently it was undoubtedly a penalty…
We nicked a lift of Em and Big Al managed to leave the flag – don’t worry it has since been reunited with me.
Since the Histon game we’ve taken 3 points at Frome; Chelseaboy, John of Wessex and Keith ‘Hit the horse’ all went along for the match and by all accounts it was good to have MG Lee back – sealed with a goal after 5 minutes and despite them equalising in the 33rd minute our very own wonder boy Craigy D grabbed the 3 points for us on 90 minutes!!! Apparently on 86 minutes their no. 6 exchanged pleasantries with HrH Keith – according to JoW this changed the game?
Tuesday 19th saw us go to Slough and take away a point; again thanks to the fantastic Mr Craigy D in the 91st minute!
So if I look at the table now, we’re 13th with 5 points and If I cast my eyes further down said table I can see Histon in 22nd place with just 1 point… hence the blog title I can’t help wondering if this season Histon are the waders Bashley from last season (3 points that we should have taken).
Still a better performance from us and followed by, what sounds like, 2 ‘cracking’ away games
Back to Langford road Saturday 23rd playing Dorchester who are a point ahead of us, sitting in 11th place…
Hoping to see Bunnyman on Saturday; not sure if Matty mouser has recovered from the camel ride? Lets hope we have a full house and the ‘singing’ can commence

Play it again Sam…

Biggleswade v Dorchester Town 4-1
23rd August 2014
Alcohol units – Lost count!
B’s Man Of the Match – Sam Reed
Game rating – 8.5/10
Attendance – 135
Not quite a full attendance from the Green Army – but near enough with just MattyMouser and Em missing in action
Big Al and I met up with Bunnyman and Chelseaboy in the Pemmy – Ok, ok old habits are hard to break Blackpool Dan should pay more attention as him and his dad ended up in the New Inn?? So one for the road and off we set for the mighty Langford road.. Bozza was selling programmes outside of the clubhouse, from what appeared to be his son’s paper round bag? He was just starting to wonder where the green army were. We were just in time for a drink in the club house, which was relatively busy; Bunnyman’s mates Sideshow Bob (St.Neots were playing away at Truro) and Handlebar were in attendance.
Big Dave K’s mate, made a beeline for me in order to let me know his name, rather than be forever known as BDK’s mate… No problem at all BDK’s mate Chris
JoW made a late show, but not too late for a drink Soulman was shamed into bringing his trusted flag today, and so with Blackpool Dan’s and the Green Army’s we decorated ‘Burger van’ end
M came along with S (guessing Em couldn’t fix her shifts today) and I’m pretty sure missed the 1stgoal on 10 minutes – you don’t need to sneak in late now M, you have a season ticket
Waders started well playing some great football with MG Lee Allinson and Lee Smith running the midfield – Its great the have MG Lee back, I’ll even forgive the ponytail – clearly there is more pressure to fit in, in the dressing room than I could imagine..
Big Al and Soulman also missed the 1st goal – perhaps if Big Al spent less time at the burger van, he wouldn’t be struggling to fit in his ‘speedo’s’ … So just for M, Soulman and Big Al:
Lee Smith finished off a super passing move from Sam and new Luton loanee Ian Rees, who looks like a good prospect for the future.
The rest of the half played out with the Waders looking strong, but Dorchester looking dangerous on the break
At half time we had some refreshments and I discovered that BDK is a granddad – didn’t think he was old enough – then again I do keep forgetting that I’m no longer 27 and that the 80’s / 90’s is now considered vintage years..?
The second half saw us take residence in the Bel End but there was to be no raffle prizes today! We were quite vocal in this half – the roof of the Bel End is ideal for some added atmosphere – not to mention the 2 big Gobs of Bunnyman and Big Al…
“We are the Green, Green & white army!” went down and storm; Thanks for that St. Albans – imitation is the greatest form of flattery and all that..
On 57 minutes Sam Reed hit the back of the net following a good pass from Jordan Davies. Our back 4 looked strong again – Browney has got to be the best keeper in our league, pulling off 2 fantastic saves in the 2nd half – it you don’t believe me, check out the save against Slough on Youtube ‘World class’ Speaking of Youtube links, check out the Green army in full voice courtest of Tref the armadillo hunter..
We scored again in the 63rd minute again Super Sam Reed finishing off a Lee Smith pass..
The Waders did concede with 6 minutes to go, Browney, unusually, being beaten by their no.9 Dan Cann (clearly he could – bet he hasn’t heard that before ). Zane Banton made it 4-1 on 91 minutes, running past 3 defenders… These last minutes goals are beginning to be our thing
A slow walk back, dropping JoW at the ‘Whistle’ whilst the rest of us headed home – too much excitement at our ‘ages’ and all that
What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon!!! what a pity a few more people of Biggleswade don’t try it
Monday 25th see’s us at, 5th placed, Dunstable for a local derby, hopefully there should be a good showing from the Green Army

Lucky lucky lucky…

Dorking Wanderers v Biggleswade 2-2
27th Septembert 2014
Alcohol units – 3 (thankyou Big Al, Bunnyman & BDK)
B’s Man Of the Match – Andy Iwedz (Twinny)
Game rating – 4/10
Attendance – looked like 100 – 140 approx?

After a lovely break in Greece where we met up with fellow Wader Chelseaboy for my birthday it was back down to business today with an FA cup away day to Dorking.
We were joined on the coach (when it turned up – Wessex would have been in plenty of time today) by Chelseaboy, Bunnyman, Mattymouser, tots Tim, BDK, Em & M
The journey to Surrey was pretty non eventful with only BDK supplying the entertainment by way of convincing us to part with cash on the premise that he is going BOOZE FREE for October??? Rumour has it the last time BDK managed this he was still being breast fed…! Good luck Dave!
There was bit of a magical mystery tour with the driver deciding to go the wrong way around the M25?? Still the view from the Dartford Bridge was amazing… The closer we got to Dorking however the more stunning the scenery. On arrival it was rather pleasing only having the part with £6 for entry and we were assured there was a bar (well, M, mimed a drinking sign to the guy on the gate… ).
The ground seemed to be quite new; with a railway line right behind it, flight paths from Heathrow and Gatwick visible and apparently the hills being ideal for an astronomer – yes it was a dream come true for the Waders anoraks (you know who you are??).
The bar turned out to be a wooden hut serving can of lager only with no clubhouse to speak of – still the staff were friendly and we all made do (lucky it was nice day and views over to box Hill were truly stunning ), I am also reliably informed that the burgers and sausages were up to spec!
The pre match entertainment was provided by Gordon, who is now known as Soul-boy (Soul-man already being taken) as it turns out he is massively into Northern Soul – Poor Super Sam Reed is sadly, injured currently and whilst standing with his mum looked more than a little embarrassed as Soul-boy took us through his collection of what Super Sam calls Shuffle music… It was all ok for me until Him and Big Al started on the Beach boys…
It was nice to see a couple of new faces in the squad but sad to see Captain fantastic and Craigy D forced to be spectators due to injuries … Get back soon lads!!
It was amusing listening to the announcement of the teams – still not sure who this Luke Allinson is?? And oh how people struggle with Twinny’s surname (A – wed –in – oo)
Kick off saw Dorking come at us strongly and they were soon rewarded with an early lead thanks to their no. 10 (Tom Tofrey was outstanding this match!) and I’m sorry to say we really didn’t look in the game at all for the 1st 20 minutes; no surprises we were 2 down at this point thanks to Tom T, quite frankly I think its fair to say the team and the Green Army were shell shocked – Thank God for the the lively Zane Banton who latched on the Lee Reed pass and made the score slightly more respectable 2-1 (I’m assured by Captain fantastic and Craigy D, who were behind the goal – that it was a class strike). Full credit to a team 2 steps below us, we could have easily been 3 or 4 goals down at half time – but thanks to Browney and the immense Twinny that wasn’t quite the case… We were however still a goal down at half time.
More cans of beer courtesy of BDK who is making the most of these last few days of September. It was nice also to talk to some Leatherhead fans who had visited us last year in the FA cup game and were very complimentary about our set up.
The 2nd half saw the Waders look a little more like the side they should be, but the elusive equaliser still would not come to us… Nunny made the final substitutions in the last 10/15 minutes bringing on Big Al’s player of the season Stuart Farrell (Where was he on the coach when the spurs supporting Big Al and Tot’s Tim needed him? ) and Lee Smith… The substitutions worked and Lee Smith fire in from long range to make it 2-2 (I could have kissed him!) and this was how the game was to finish. I’ll be honest, we got lucky and I’d feel pretty hard done by if I was a Dorking fan, because they deserved more and their team did them proud … But I’m not going to complain that we got ‘out of jail free’.
The lengthy journey home (due to the closure of the A1) was pretty subdued with only the North London Derby providing some excitement although even this ended as a draw – much too some people delight.
A nice gesture from the Wader Chairman to the Traveling Green Army – was much appreciated! Thanks Mo
I’m hoping a few of the Dorking fans make the journey up on Tuesday as they were a really friendly bunch!
COME ON WADERS!
We love you Waders we do!

Oh oh oh it’s magic

Biggleswade V St. Neots
6th Septembert 2014
Alcohol units – 3 (thankyou Big Al, Chelseaboy & Bunnyman)
B’s Man Of the Match – MG Lee Allinson
Game rating – 9/10
Attendance – 301

Big Al’s lad came along to Langford rd with us today – so being the responsible parent… the Pemmy was given a miss although we did peek through the windows on the way down and completely missed Chelseaboy, Mattymouser and Bunnyman (pretty sure they were hiding ). At 1.45, when we arrived, there were just a handful of people in the bar; Bozza, ChrisB and mate behind the makeshift club shop , no Crowie today so bar duties was all down to the lovely Annette D ; At this point that I noticed a young lad with his mum sporting a Waders shirt and…………………Waders Ponytail?? Surely the ‘Wadertails’ aren’t hitting the mainstream?
It wasn’t long before I had a tap on my shoulder from Waderchick who had decided to tag along with some St.Neots supporters so she could pay us a visit and hook up with M&S’s Kell. Dan and dad were in attendance apparently Roy had narrowly missed the opportunity of stamping on the injured Lewis Hilliards foots last week… It wasn’t long before the 3 Pemmy boys arrived “Green Army!!”
Homer informed me that we were a depleted side with no Gents, Sam or Lee – and not surprisingly after the shocking tackle of the Poole game last week no Craigy D for the next few weeks GULP! Although according to Twitter St.Neots were more than just Lewis down..
Soulman was in attendance with his flag and the good old bingo tale of being just one number away from riches last week Handlebar and Side show bob joined us in the clubhouse with Handle bar proudly showing off his gold pocket watch – with his check shirt and jean he looked like a cross between Wyatt Earp & John Wayne It would appear that the TC score predictor is back in force and so I parted with £2 for my usual 0-0… I actually t we would lose today, but would never bet against the Waders BDK paid us an autograph visit following his brush with fame and fortune on some gameshow called celebrity pressure pad – Bunnyman had watched the clip and aptly described the show as ‘it was utter sh!t’ … however audience figures did increase thanks to BDK and Waderbear, sadly due to his team being so good all the Wader chat was cut! As we left the bar after a few chants of ‘Max York Max York’ and ‘oh oh oh You’ll never get past Steve Gentle’ in the style of ‘oh oh oh its magic’ by Pilot (1975!!!) – I was told that I’m an embarrassment by Waderchick OMG she hasn’t seen anything, I was being well behaved
Scotty was in charge of the ball boys today; Terry was keeping a young lady company (lucky escape Em ). M & Em were joined today by Su & Kell. The Flags were all put up, it was half was through the game that someone asked if we had Russian sponsors?? Doh, Dan had put his green army flag upside down he was bothered as he wasn’t stood behind it
It was great to see the Waders Legend that is Paul Barnes today with his young lad.
MG Lee was captain for the day and boy did he lead by example! Mark Coulson returned for the injured Captain fantastic and so Twinny switched to centre back. Zane & Jordan were both out wide with Ian Reese sharing the centre mid field with MG Lee. Lee Reed and Stuart Farrell were both upfront (so not sure where Homer got his info, perhaps another Lee? Nope all 3 were in the squad today ). St. Neots looked strong in the 1st half and 20 minutes in Frater scored for them with a drop kick that I swear looked like it was going straight over the crossbar no such luck! I must confess to thinking oh no here we go… but I should know better by now; not only did MG Lee keep the players fired up but he drove as far forward as we’ve seen him and bang 1-1 on 22 minutes Barnsey got to join in the goal celebration to It stayed like this up to half time and the general feeling in the bar was that St. Neots had got the better of us 1st half…only just, mind.
The 2nd half saw the Green army in our beloved Bel End, so some noise was on the cards this half.. ChrisB won the maltesers in the raffle so these were being shared about (probably to keep us quiet ). Roger had promised a new song for the green Army – and duly handed me some printed out copies of ‘Wader waders’ in the style of ‘Daisy Daisy’ – you can only imagine the looks when I handed these out and suffice to say Rogers song didn’t get past the judges and certainly won’t make the judges houses 10/10 for effort though!
On 48 minutes St.Neots made it 2-1, which was disappointing as I felt we were looking the better side…Waders were strong. As I’ve said before MG Lee was a force to be reckoned with and was duly rewarded on 70 minutes with a simple tap in, following a Nathan Abbey ‘save’. 2-2 and I’d like to point out this was against 11 men!
It all got a bit silly from this point on and from what I could make out St. Neots went down to 10 men due to an injury to the infamous Dave Deaney and no subs left.. On 88 minutes St.Neots had a player sent of following a 2nd yellow card and then on 94 minutes Nathan Abbey was sent off after a ‘coming together’ with Twinny – I would never be one to defend Nathan after the Arlesey game last season, but it all seemed a bit daft as the ball was out of play ?? Big Al does bear a grudge and was highly delighted (what a shame Tref the armadillo hunter missed this ). Lee Smith stepped up to take the penalty, I turned away and was forcibly turned back around by Bunnyman only to watch the ball go straight into the stand in keepers hands Gutted, but clearly it wasn’t mean to be today
On the way out, I spotted the lad with the Wadertail again with his mum, the lovely Faye, and MG Lee – mystery solved!
Great day and in the overall scheme of things a good point, but it did feel a bit like we’d lost at the end…
Well after all this excitement me and Big Al need a holiday and so will miss a couple of home games – you can be sure we’ll be following on twitter though! Soulman has the flag for safe keeping, good luck in the cup games lads – would be nice to repeat last years performance
See you in a couple of weeks!

Start spreading the news….

Poole v Biggleswade
30th August 2014
Alcohol units – loads!! and posh stuff
B’s Man Of the Match – Captain Fantastic (nothing to do with him being complimentary about my hair)
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 292
Away clubhouse – 8/10
Away Supporters – 10/10
Away Ground – 7/10
We were up nice & early for the away day to Poole today – Rolls and supplies were all made the night before, so it was just a matter of the drinks menu…. It’s amazing how well me and Big Al perform as a production line decanting vodka into coke bottles – not a drop was spilt! I’m pretty sure I take less when going on holiday (stuff not vodka!!) so laden down like a couple of pack donkeys we made our way to meet the ‘coach’ at Langford rd… En route Jonny D gave us a shout out and a bit further along The Bedford boys did the same with Captain fantastic practically hanging out of the window – bit worrying as he was driving . Where else would you get the coach, the gaffer (guessing Nunny was with the Bedford boys), the captain, the no.1 goalie and our super winger Craigy D recognising you and shouting out in the street?? I’m guessing not any of the premiership teams that’s for sure Gotta love the Waders!!
We saw Chelsea boy just ahead of us, but no sign of Wessex? M & Em were just behind us and luckily the coach looked somewhat more modern than the Stourbridge debacle Bunnyman & Mattymouser were already seated “bus w@nk3rs”… We took our seat across the aisle, chelseaboy was behind Bunnyman, M&Em behind us… Now let me make this clear, Big Al choose our seat – who was sat in front of us?? Blakey (Homer)
Off the coach set without Wessex, stopping at Stevenage to pick up the General, Twinny, the Reedys and others – another stop at South Mims to pick up Farrell & Evan; the boys seemed fairly lively in the back – not sure about the singing “We’ll go crazy crazy crazy till the sun comes out” – they made the Green Army sound in tune! we did however pick up some ideas from them
An hour into the journey and Big Al was once against struggling with his new phone (not sure I can take much more ) and it was poor old Mattymouser who got the job of finding 3G for him! All that so the anorak club could see what plane was going where…Aaaargh!! I must say just an hour in and the lads all seemed pretty up for today, me – I’m not gonna lie I was a little less optimistic – although despite what Pooles website states our last meeting was actually a 2-2 draw thanks the Super Sam ! The anorak club were now discussing how fast certain planes were flying A pit stop was made at Rownhams services for 45 minutes OMG – probably (definitely) the worlds worst motorway services ever !!! After 20 minutes we were all sat waiting desperately to be let back on the coach…. Truly dreadful!
3 hours and 40 minutes in – Nunny with time on his hands starts offering his text services – the General was the 1st victim, however it wud seem our ‘can do know wrong’ Mr N is the king of charm…. say no more, what goes on tour! The traffic was a complete ‘mare and upon arrival in Poole we quickly got lost a coach driver who doesn’t have sat nav??? Homer and The Count had a bit of handbags but eventually we made it! The lady selling programmes said that she had seen our coach go sailing past earlier
The clubhouse was a completely different affair to last year, very nicely done and nicely busy – apparently Duffy our Waders ex pat was the 1st in at 10 Chappo was there to greet us and as promised, he had got me prosseco ‘Champagne!!’ What great guy and great bunch of mates he had with him; unfortunately Big Al decided to share the fizz with me…. Despite some funny stares
Outside both sets of fans tried to outdo each other before kick off with the chants we did well considering there was only 8 of us singing; think i’ve mentioned before that Bunnyman & Big Al’s gobs count as at least 10 men
We started at the clubhouse end and set our stalls up behind the goal. The Waders made the worse possible start going a goal down after 5 minutes ; I was starting to think back to my finishing line in the last blog “what could possibly go wrong..?” The Waders soaked up much of the Poole pressure; our trusted back 5 of Browney, Captain Fantastic, Twinny, Max & Cam were solid as always and boy did they need to be ! Half time saw us just the 1 goal down…
2nd half we ‘took’ the Covered end behind the Poole goalie (he was a good guy) and I’ll be honest most of the action was the other end – so what else was there to do be sing, and boy did we sing !! Craigy D was taken off after a nasty foul on 60 minutes which resulted in Pooles player being red carded… Towards the end of the half there was some action our side and we were desperately chanting “We are the GREEN, green and white army” over and over in the hope of an equaliser … It was not to be, but 1-0 is no bad show at this place! Shame about the idiot who came around having a go at us not being able beat 10 men??? That certainly wasn’t reflective of the friendliest club we have ever visited – what a great bunch of supporters, thanks for making our day out so good
It was also good to meet ‘Moorsy’ who made the journey from Weymouth to support us having done a Wessex and missed the Weymouth coach to Cambridge…
A few drinks were had in the clubhouse after, big thanks for the freezing cold hug Chappo (after his ice bucket challenge) that certainly woke me up !
The coach journey home was a laugh with Nunny talking science over and over and over … Big Al outed Stuart Farell as a Spurs fan – not only a nice fella but now Big Al’s player of the season .
I managed to leave the flag in the coach – luckily Mo spotted it, Big Al managed to lose the house keys – so we had to get his mum to the door in her nightie to collect the spare set… (The keys were later found in my bag shhhh(what goes on tour )).

Thanks for a great coach trip everyone, see you all on Saturday 6th for non league day against my ‘favourite’ team St.Neots … Let’s make sure the rest of the green army get to hear our new songs – M is currently sing one in the garden next door whilst hanging out the washing a little clue it ends in York and was a gift from the players themselves..
On a positive note Big Al has lost his voice (won’t be able to hear him moan about his bl00dy phone)

Wet Wet Wet!

Dunstable v Biggleswade 1-0
25th August 2014
Alcohol units – 3 (halves)
B’s Man Of the Match – Jordan Davies
Game rating – 5/10
Attendance – 157

Away clubhouse – 7/10
Away Ground – 6/10
The Wadermobile was full with Bunnyman, Chelseaboy, Matty mouser, Big Al and me of course! We went straight to the clubhouse and were greeted by friendly staff and a really nice set up Bozza and JT weren’t far behind, quickly followed by Blackpool Dan and Dad, then, Tref, BDK and mate Chris. There weren’t many locals in at the start, so we guessed they were at their Pemmy equivalent M ‘snuck’ in just before kick off..
The weather for an August bank holiday – was lets say, predictable… and apparently being a girl, I should have brought an umbrella??
We stayed near the clubhouse in the 1st half – although Bozza and others soon took cover near the catering hatch None of our waterproofs were ‘man’ enough for this weather
The team, by Nunny’s own admission was a little depleted with Mark Coulson, Lee & Sam Reed, Evan Key and Ian Rees all carrying knocks..
The 1st half the Waders looked strong in defence with Browney, Gents, Twinny, Cam and Max doing what they do best
Jordan Davis looked particularly dangerous on the breaks, going close a couple of times, but Dunstable finished the 1st half the stronger side and we were lucky to have 0-0 at half time.
We all took cover at half time – wet was an understatement!
2nd half we took over the ‘Goonie end’ (another one for those of a certain age) Previously populated by Dunstable’s juniors supporters club – they’ll make a lot more noise when their voices break
We did make some noise second half – but it always seemed just a matter of time before Dunstable scored Jordan came close again as did Lee Allinson…but on 85 minutes Dunstable scored and not only were we a wet, soggy, fed up Green Army, but the ‘Goonies’ then decided on a walk past, goading us ‘Beasted’ by 12 year olds… who then came back for another go on 90 minutes.. Bless ‘em, back to school soon lads! on a serious note, it’s always good to see youngsters following their local team.
Not the best away day – but A few of us will be making the trip to Poole Saturday 30th (well if Homer lets us know the pick-up time ) – so what if Poole won 7-0 today, it’s my 2nd favourite SPL club.. what could possibly go wrong?

Who’s the Boss…

Biggleswade v Camb City 14th Oct 2014 (Red insure Cup)
14th Oct 2014
Alcohol units – A cheeky couple…(Cheers Matty M)
B’s Man of the Match – Kelvin Bossman
Game rating – 7/10
Attendance – 112
Big Al and I met up with Bunnyman & Mattymouser in the New Inn for a Big Al Birthday meal a day early – I can highly recommend the burgers and as for the chips….Scrummy! Bellies full we ambled down to the Langford rd stadium, hoping to catch sight of Soulman who’d tweeted he’d be there tonight…
Chelseaboy was at the bar and Dan’s dad was about to – Big Al bought himself a new Waders scarf from Bozza as a birthday treat for 15th (last one with a 4 in front )… I think it’s fair to say tonight only brought out the hardcore Waders & Lilywhites
We were all having such a nice chat until Bozza revealed that he works for a well known rail company… I think I have mentioned before about the Green army anorak’s and let’s just say, without mentioning any names – one was particularly impressed by this and so it was train talk all the way Myself and Chelsea boy kept ourselves to ourselves and even Bunnyman & Mattymouser moved away preferring the company of Rob K who had been sensible enough to keep his distance . Em & M arrived just before the start – but still no sign of Wessex or Soulman
The Green army set up camp ‘Burger van ‘ end (only the 1 this week) and cheered the on the much changed side as they came out onto the pitch. Lee Allinson captained the side again with Farrell playing centre half tonight and Twinny being rested along with Browney. Craigy D didn’t make the bench tonight although rumour has it he is “Back in the game!” (one for Mickey Flannigan fans that).
Both sides started well playing some nice passing football, and it was City who took the lead in the 12th minute Waders continued to press but this was against a well-defended City and so at half time we were still a goal down.
At half time BDK came over to tell us how much he was looking forward to 1st November (I bet the Guinea cannot wait either – that’s if their takings survive the rest of this month ), I can also confirm that the cake replacement therapy (CRT) continues
Off to the Bel End we went and I must say I was lovely and warm tonight having brought my trusted Waders Parker out of storage tonight! . Roy won the raffle and being the charmer that he is immediately handed over the milk tray to me (I can exclusively report that they are still unopened – despite Big Al’s best efforts!! )
We only had 7 minutes to wait before Waders drew thanks to a Kelvin Bossman header – this lad is looking to be a very good signing for us . The winning goal came courtesy of a Zane Banton run down the right, firing across the goal to the feet of Bossman – almost the exact same moves of last Wednesday against City So 3 goals in 2 games for the Bossman – all against his old club, let’s hope he keeps this up for Truro – we need the points
Hoping to see Soulman and Wessex on Saturday for Truro – they have been AWOL for too long now and we miss them!

Waders

InNunnywetrust

We love you Waders we do!

Stoned….

Biggleswade v Maidstone (3rd round qual FA cup)
11th Oct 2014
Alcohol units – Lost count!
B’s Man of the Match – Cam Mawer
Game rating – 5/10
Attendance – 450
Having spent most of the morning writing blogs (serves me right for being disorganised!) and well, let’s be honest, waiting to go to football Big Al and I hooked up with Bunnyman & Mattymouser in the New Inn, it was touch and go whether we would get a drink as one of us got ID’d Chelseaboy found us soon after and a few rounds were had, not to mention a couple of very nice looking BLT’s.
A small group of ‘Stones’ supporters came in to sample the delights of the New Inn and get ground directions from us, well Chelseaboy. We also noticed Duffy (Wader now residing in Poole) wander past, but apparently he wasn’t in town to support us or Poole who were playing at St. Neots today – some poor excuse of a Christening??
Fed and watered we made our way down to Langford road,( well Matty Mouser limped down as he is still carrying a Bel End injury from a couple of games ago..) in anticipation of huge crowds.. The car park was pretty busy but surprisingly there were just the 2 away coaches.
Bozza was outside selling glossy looking programs, leaving ChrisB & mate in charge of the ‘shop’. It was straight to the bar for 4 of us – Big Al sneaked off for a burger (the diet is going well ) – it was busy, but not Canvey Island busy – BDK, still sober, was behind the bar and served us swiftly. Homer made his way towards us and presented Chelseaboy with his shirt complete with sponsors logo on the front! Apparently there are only 2 of these in circulation Dan and Dad and Em & M joined us in the clubhouse where me and Emma studied ‘player’ form on the team sheet …
Handlebar made an appearance, the 1st in a few weeks, making some excuse about being in Canada the last 3 weeks it was noted that he did not bring gifts!
We decided to go for the Bel End the whole match today as – rain was threatening and more noise can be made. The Stones took over the far stand and much of the burger van end – Oh I nearly forgot, we had 2 burger vans today so that might be a bit confusing for the non-regulars.. As it was we chose the right end as the Waders must have lost the toss and were kicking towards us.
The Green ‘Army’ assembled and although outnumbered by at least 5:1 and not feeling particular confident against an on form Maidstone side – we would do our best to cheer the boys on..
Maidstone started how they would mean to go on and were a strong and confident side although our defence was on top form and would be no pushovers. Waders chances were few and far between with Smudger having the best of those, but sadly putting the ball high and wide on this occasion I was heart wrenching stuff with most of the action happening at the other end of the pitch – to our credit, we went in 0-0 at half time but there was a real feeling that the 2nd half would see the Stones break us down.
We left the flag in place and Dan’s dad kept guard over my jacket. When we returned, we found the Bel End had been overrun with Stones supporters of course being Waders, why would we let a little thing like that get in the way?? So whilst most of the Waders chose BV end, the Green Army consisting of me, Big Al, Bunnyman, Mattymouser, Chelseaboy, Em & M, Bozza, ChrisB & mate took our rightful places in the Bel End “Theres only 10 of us singing” although I did notice Tot’s Tim had left the posh seats and was standing at our side At this point we were probably outnumbered 10:1 and it says so much about non-league football that this is possible without a hint of trouble or nastiness just some wicked banter…
The 2nd half was pretty much the same as the 1st, with Maidstone always threatening and I sure we only had the 1 shot (Zane). On 76 minutes Maidstone broke through and went 1-0 up – it was just after this goal that I realised our flag had been desecrated and so I went down to restore its glory and keep guard over it Apparently I made myself a sitting target with chants about Blondie (I’m hoping that didn’t mean I look like a woman in her 60’s? ) etc etc, it was all good fun until the knicker chant, although when I turned to tell them off they soon turned into naughty school boys each blaming the other. . 5 minutes from time the Stones put our FA cup dreams to bed 2-0 at the final whistle…
So after 45 minutes with Waders and Stones singing their hearts out at each other, it wasn’t to be for us; Handshakes and well wishes from both sets of fans at the end I even got a few hugs and a hand with the flag.
Homeward bound we walked with Stones fans Jim and Shelley who’d parked the other side of the Wade. Time to concentrate of the league now Waders – although we have the Red Insure league cup game against Cambs City Tuesday
Good luck to the Stones, hoping that they get a decent draw Monday – they deserve it.
COME ON YOU WADERS!
We love you Waders we do!

Lets get physical

Cambridge City v Biggleswade 1-1
8th October 2014
Alcohol units – 2 (school night!)
B’s Man of the Match – Zane Banton
Game rating – 7/10
Attendance – 256
Big Al picked up Bunnyman, Mattymouser and Chelseaboy in the Wadermobile tonight and then collected me from work (Cambs) – to fill in the time I had been stupid enough to attend a circuit training session after work!!! I was horrified to find out this is done outside, it was bad enough colleagues seeing me – but the thought of my fellow Waders, didn’t bear thinking about! Luckily just a warm up, walk through and about 4 minutes of exercise in the heavens opened and I was saved It is a bit of a concern that 3 days later I am still in all kinds of pain… Anyway the Wadermobile arrived in plenty of time and in I squeezed. We opted for the car park and parted with a £1 for parking???
In the clubhouse, we were joined by Bozza, JT and RobK – BDK appeared as well bemoaning the lack of weight loss 8 days into his sobriety – me thinks it might have something to do with him saying he’s replaced pints with cakes
My mate Lurch (a Cambs UTD fan) came along and was quick to let us know that their goalie wasn’t up to much…..
Em & M arrived in time for kick off and we made our way to behind the goal.. Stuart Farrell started tonight and Lee Allinson was rested.
Cambridge started the brighter side and after a rare mistake from Twinny they were gifted a goal on 16 minutes This seemed to galvanise the Waders and we came back strong although I’m not sure that Lurch got it right about their goalie as he put in an awesome shift , much to our dismay behind the goal; and to Stuart Farrell who was unlucky not to score towards half time thanks to ‘said’ keeper.. The midfield and especially Lee Smith played some great passing football and the 2 youngsters on the right (Zane & Connor) both combined well. At half time we were still a goal down and I think its fair to say this was not reflective of the game we were watching..
I was freezing & wished I’d brought my big thick football parker along (oh wait a minute it was in the boot ) – Football weather has finally arrived.
The 2nd half saw the Waders dominant at the start, Nunny made some changes taking off Smudger (who had bossed the midfield ), Jordan and Farrell (who had his best game in a Waders shirt ) – and bringing on new signing Calvin Bossman, Sam Ives and Loick Pires. Wonderboy Zane Banton made another fantastic run down the right and some fancy footwork before crossing to Bossman, who scored on his debut!!! Bossman looks really quick and skilful, what a shame he is cup tied . After the goal its fair to say that City took control again, but the Waders defence held strong for the point
Maidstone on Saturday 11th October – it’ll be tough, but the Waders never give in
COME ON YOU WADERS!
We love you Waders we do!
“When Gents, goes up the lift the FA cup, we’ll be there!!”

Message in a bottle…

Biggleswade v Paulton Rovers 1-0
4th October 2014
Alcohol units – Erm…hic!
B’s Man of the Match – Andy Iwedz (Twinny)
Game rating – 4/10
Attendance – 135 – Still no John of Wessex

Big Al and I had DJ (Big Al’s autistic son) with us today – DJ was given the choice of football or Granddad’s, but let’s be honest there is no contest when it comes to the mighty Langford road – I’m pretty sure the burgers, the singing and the swearing play a big part too…
It was pouring with rain today, but given our ‘health kick’ we walked and left early in order to meet up in the Pemmy – however it was closed due to illness! So the Langford road bar it was – on the way we were passed by the impressive looking team coach – here come those flashbacks again We were so early the turnstiles weren’t even open! Bunnyman and Mattymouser weren’t too far behind us (although they drove as Bunnyman wasn’t willing to risk his famous BM hoody shrinking in the rain (Dunstable had been a close call I’ll have you know! ) )We’re thinking that the New Inn may well get a try out as our prematch public house in future…
Big Al was on the wine today as we are desperate trying to shed a few ‘stone’ between us and apparently wine is less calories than pints of beer (hold that thought)
Nunny popped out to see us and very generously got a round in (I’m not sure I can make him MoM??)
Chelseaboy arrived soon after and had also managed to avoid the rain thanks to his lovely lady. By now Big Al had decided it was cheaper to buy a bottle of wine….
Sam Reed, Captain fantastic and Craigy D are all still out and it seems this could be the case for another few weeks!
We made for the Bel end 1st half as it was still peeing with rain, and were joined by Bozza, Em & M, Dan was there with his Dad although Roy had his Scottish mate over and so kept his distance – anyone would think we’re embarrassing??
The game started ok, but soon became a pretty dull affair with the highlight being a Zane Banton Super Goal after 20 minutes.
Half time saw more wine for Big Al – and as Bunnyman commented rather bemused, “Surely its only less calories if you’re not drinking gallons of the stuff compared to a couple of beers??”.. Hmmm, very good point me thinks! Bozza won the raffle and the tin of heroes was enjoyed by all, especially Big Al and DJ!
The Waders dropped to 10 men straight after the 2nd half whistle – following a Cam Mawer 2nd bookable. We defended really well with 10 men and Andy Iwedz was simply awesome today
At the end of the game we popped in for ‘afters’ (never a good idea) to keep Chelseaboy company more wine was had (??) a good chat with Nunny , a hug with Twinny and a pep talk for Stu Farrell and then off we set for home and ‘Strictly come dancing’ – Nunny did stop and offer us a lift, but we declined as some of us need the exercise!
Unsurprisingly Big Al fell asleep and missed strictly and pretty much most of Saturday night (Most of our Waders buddies would think missing ‘strictly’ a good thing – not Big Al)
I’m thinking that Big Al, wine and football will not be mixing in the very near future
COME ON WADERS!
We love you Waders we do!

Survival of the fittest

Biggleswade v Dorking Wanderers 1-0 (2nd rd qual FA cup Replay)
30th September 2014
Alcohol units – 3
B’s Man Of the Match – Ian Brown
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 160

After narrowly scraping a draw on Saturday Big Al and I made our way down to Langford rd via the Pemmy hooking up with Bunnyman & Mattymouser. It was a swift drink and off we set hoping for a better Wader display at home…
BDK was in the bar enjoying his last day before sobriety hits him in October. Chelseaboy arrived soon after as did Dan and Dad then Em & M. Bozza was serving in the ‘shop’ and had a nice surprise for Chelseaboy – his long awaited shirt had arrived, Homer did the honours – but having had at least 3 holidays since ordering the shirt, a medium was pushing things; so still he waits his replica shirt (I do believe it’s now over a year)
Still no John of Wessex – we miss you Wessex!!
I have to mention the Dorking team coach – boy did they travel in style, leather seats, table and even a kitchen! Memories of our school bus to Stour came flooding back.
Sam Reed, Captain fantastic and Craigy D are all still out.
Kick off saw Dorking come at us strongly reminiscent of Saturday’s game – Oh pray… Luckily Browney was on his usual fine form and produced a string of good saves keeping it goalless at half time.
The second half saw the green ‘army’ in our favoured Bel End and our songs were rewarded with a bit more action at our end, although Dorking were no mugs & defended well; although in the last 10 minutes fitness played a part and the Dorking lads started to tire and we all know that the Waders never ever give up . Just when it looked like extra time was a certainty; Wonderboy Zane Banton went on a skilful run that finishing with the goal that put us through to the next round “Super Zane Banton!!”
We clapped the away team off the pitch, they had played their hearts out and in truth, I believe they deserved it more – I would have been devastated if I were a fan, and it’s fair to say they were But as my Green Army buddies keep reminding me it’s not always about how you play it, it’s about the result. So bring on Maidstone on 11th October!!
COME ON WADERS! And all the best to Dorking Wanderers for the rest of their season.
We love you Waders we do!

Re-light my Fire….

5th Nov 2014
Biggleswade v Brentwood 3-2
Alcohol units – 0
B’s Man of the Match – Connor Roberts
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – ? (Guessing less than 100)
Off we set this clear Bonfire night for the replay against Brentwood that was to be played at the St.Neots town ground as our floodlights were still out of action following an altercation with a birds nest . Tonight was ‘Proper cold’ and so the idea of going to a stadium known as the ‘Cozy’ was quite appealing ! It was just the 3 of us in the Wadermobile tonight, in the form of Big Al, Chelseaboy and of course me.
A swift journey saw us arrive around 20 minutes before kick off, and after parking up in a somewhat ‘tight’ car park (at least they don’t have the cheek to charge… Cambridge City & Histon are you listening.. ) and the 3 of us managing to squeeze out (that’s a summer of good living for you! ) I was still a little confused to see Bozza selling programs the other-side of the turnstiles with Homer manning the aforementioned…. I think its fair to say Homer is either in need of more practice or he exacted some revenge on me tonight and I now have a big fat bruise on my knee .
Roy was in attendance whilst BP Dan was apparently football training. It was truly freezing and so we went off to find the clubhouse and very impressive it was to … although I’m guessing a good night had been had the night before as the floor was pretty sticky. A few other Waders made the trip out including , RobbieK & JT along with their lads who play for the U15’s and a couple of the more senior Waders … My 7 foot tall, new mate was there, bemoaning the fact I’d said he was 7ft… Ok, 6ft 11… Wessex and keith (HtH) made it in time for a quick drink and by all accounts this was needed as Keith had, had a terrible experience when the train pulled up – the station had run out of platform!!! Luckily Wessex was able to guide him to the correct side of the train and so o ut onto the platform and a short walk to Rowley Park – the problem was clearly that only 1 drink had been had
Em & M snuck in just as we were about to kick off, so the Green Army was 8…. Oh and guess who forgot to bring the flag. Doh! BDK had a quick chat with us, but will miss the next few games as he is doing the delights of Singapore and Malaysia – I’m defo in the wrong job
Brentwood started strongly and we looked much the weaker side – apparently not dissimilar to Saturdays game. So no surprises when after just 7 minutes Brentwood scored… however before we hit 15 minutes of play Wonderboy CraigyD showed his exceptional talents running down the right hand side and turning on a sixpence and hammering home one of the best goals this season – The type of move that would have been played over and over on MOTD… Brentwood continued to press and as per most of the season thank goodness for Brownie . On 34 minutes MG Lee found the back of the net and this wasn’t without incident as the Brentwood team were outraged by what they thought was a foul… We were right in the line of play and honestly did not see what the kick off was all about??
At half time we sought the warmth of the clubhouse as did Twinny who was, enjoying the cold weather as much as me – not! Hopefully he will be back in the squad after a couple of weeks rest.
Waders went 3-1 up not long into the second half courtesy of Bossman… I was at this point I heard someone in the ‘crowd’ say oh well we might as well go now, we’ve won it.. Noooooooooooooooooooo! Within 2 minutes the industrious Brentwood side took us to 3-2 and frankly every time the ball ended up in their possession, it felt like we were in mortal danger … Again Brownie was a life saver on more than one occasion and he was also less than impressed given some of the choice expletives he was booming across the pitch…
At the end we were doing all we could to just hang on and frankly I wasn’t up for extra time tonight… So it was a mighty relief to hear the final whistle go Fair play to Brentwood they were a tough and physical side, the bookings and cards probably reflect the kind of game it was? But it wasn’t to be their night tonight
It was great to see CraigyD at his best and I can’t wait to see him do a full 90 minutes – Connor Roberts had an immense game tonight and ran the wing like a pro.
So we face the mighty Dolphins on 15th November – it’s not a meeting I relish, from the football perspective but it’ll be nice to catch up with our Dolphin mates from a banter and beer point of view….
Saturday 8th sees a few of us visit Dorchester Town (who? )

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Sam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

Dark Knight

28th Oct 2014
Biggleswade v Slough Town 3-3
Alcohol units – 2
B’s Man of the Match – Craigy D
Game rating – 7/10
Attendance – 145
It was a funny old day Tuesday 28th – not in the sense of hahaha and not even because today was 18 years since losing my lovely (football mad) mum in fact what better way to mark the ‘date’… No today was strange and somewhat subdued following a horrible month where I really have seen some nasty traits of people I thought I knew good people going through bad stuff and not least our beloved Waders dogged with injuries and bad luck So I make no apologies for waiting until November to write this blog – October didn’t deserve it!
Big Al and I made our way to the New Inn to grab a bite to eat and toast a lovely lady – we got our favourite seats and posted a picture on twitter in vain hope of enticing Bunnyman & MattyMouser out although we knew today was doubtful. We did however see Blackpool (BP)Dan and Roy who also popped in to get their tea – I’m guessing, on our recommendations… The lovely Roy had brought with him a couple of programs from 1960/61 for Big Al, as his dad had played for the Waders 5-6 years around this time; How proud we were to read:
“Don Pryor (centre-forward): Set up a club record last season by being top scorer for both Biggleswade’s first and second teams. He netted 22 for the first team and 12 for the reserves”
So a big thankyou to Roy who has not only verified Don’s tall tales but also sorted out this year’s Xmas pressie!!
After around 20 minutes waiting for our food I was informed that the chunky triple cooked chips were in fact going to be slim fries … Roy and Dan were told the same to accompany their cod – however they were also, soon told that the chef had no cod! And so they ended up with burger and fries. We finally got our cheese baguette and fries after 30 minute wait ; A bit dispointing especially as we have recommended this place to others – but we’ll put it down as a one off, as this is currently our favoured watering hole .
Fed and watered we took a walk down to Langford road, forgoing the lift offered by Roy in the vain hope of working some calories off…
Still no open pedestrian gate, in fact only 1 vehicle one was open! – not the best, especially in the dark… Come on Town, you need to be protecting the Green Army from all the traffic
At the ground it was just the 2 of us and Bozza, with the Slough fans out numbering us 16:1. Crowie tried a bit of stand up with the away fans – but Peter Kay he is not … It was a nice surprise to see Bunnyman appear through the doors, he’d just missed us at the New Inn and so joined BP Dan and Roy for a pint and a lift (he doesn’t need to worry about the calories ). BP Dan was in good spirits as unlike the rest of us it wasn’t a school night for him. Chelseaboy arrived sporting his new Waders jacket (well its green) and handlebar wasn’t far behind. We were all having a look through the 2 programs and handlebar remarked that he remembered Don Pryor and “He was good player, he was”, really nice considering he didn’t know he was Big Al’s dad
As seems to be tradition the last few weeks we started towards the BelEnd and were joined by Em&M. Tref (tAH) was about and behind the goal with his new fiancee – congratulations to them both it’s good to have yet another Waderbird aboad!!
Cam was back, but no Brownie or Twinny.. Craigy D was on the bench. Slough started strongly, they’re a big side and it was good to see Luke Knight (although I’d prefer him in Green and white ) – but to be fair we weren’t being pushed about as in some games prior.. However 25 minutes in Slough scored courtesy of E Smith,
not to worry though we weren’t out of this game yet. Sadly Smith made it 2-0 just before half time and as much as we should NEVER give up – my head did go down “Bloody October!” after congratulating Mrs Armadillo Hunter at half time I made the walk around to the bar, I was stopped en route by a very clean shaven Captain Fantastic – maybe my prophesy, reference facial fuzz, was way off the mark . I did however steal a massive hug from the lovely Twinny as he came out to chat with the skipper – poor lad!
In the bar BDK was still on the cake and it was all a bit doom and gloom – not even Brownie could raise our spirits, Sam reed didn’t even try he is seriously fed up waiting his knee op
As we trudged out for the second half – all we could hope was that Slough’s lead did not increase, not sure I could take another 3 goal deficit… In fact so deflated were we, and grasping at good luck omens I didn’t even put the flag out
Jordan Davies who in mine and some others opinion had his best game in a Waders shirt and went and topped this with a goal on 59 minutes!! Somewhat unluckily he was taken off soon after, being replaced by the Boy wonder Craigy D. Boy wonder indeed because just 9 minutes after the 1stgoal Craigy D made it 2-2…. As sombre as we all were – we went ballistic!!!! And the Waders kept on pressing, imagine what we were like when Craigy D ran 60 yards with the ball shrugging off defenders on the way before firing in an unstoppable 3rdgoal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was scenes reminiscent of the Canvey Island game, with both Big Al and Bunnyman taking a victory lap (only to the burger van and back ). Maybe our luck was changing?? Of course not it was still October wasn’t it, and so in the cruellest of blows E Smith banged in his hat trick on 92 minutes (So did he keep the match ball?)
It was gutting but, this game was always going to be tough and at half time if I was offered a point, I’d have ripped someone’s arm off
So October saw us plagued with injuries, play 8 games; taking just 8 points from 6 of these, and go out of the FA cup . The end of October still had some blows for us with the news that Zane Banton and Ian Rees were being recalled by Luton and then it would seem one of our floodlights caught fire … I’m pretty sure I will not be the only one glad to see the back of October!
On a positive note, Captain Fantastic is now clean shaven (and we didn’t lose, so beards are bad luck!) and not far from fitness, Craigy D is firing on all cyclinders, Browney is back and we have a replay in the FA trophy; Sadly me and Big Al missed the game at Brentwood having to be ‘responsible’ parents (well I just had to provide a taxi service ) – but Twitter & Chelseaboy kept us informed.
A massive well done to BDK for the money he raised – £1200 for Macmillan Cancer support – I’ll be honest I didn’t think he’d last a week. The Guinea will be happy although Mr Kippling could see a fall in sales … Oh and he also became a grand daddy, so I suppose October isn’t all bad

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Sam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!
Rumour has it – Tuesday is probably off due to the lack of floodlight??? –

Frome Alone….

Biggleswade v Frome 25th Oct 2014
Alcohol units – 2 large’ ‘uns
B’s Man of the Match – Mark Coulson
Game rating – 2/10
Attendance – 125
Big Al and I played ‘hard to get’ today waiting until at least 12.30 before we headed off to the New Inn to meet up with some of the Green Army Bunnyman and Matttymouser were already nursing a couple of pints, although by all accounts the fosters was pretty ropey today…? As we walked in, a couple of guys commented on Celtic, when I looked at them bemused they suggested we might be Plymouth??? Shame on those Biggleswade residents not even recognising the mighty Waders – I did take a couple of seconds out to explain … and they did look suitably embarrassed; they didn’t even use the excuse of being Biggleswade utd fans…
3 pints of English Lager (Noble) followed and the New Inn was back in favour , I stuck to my wine served in a decent glass; When Chelseaboy joined us he wondered where the goldfish were – apparently my glass being big enough to house a couple .. Bunnyman was a tad grumpy today and we put that down to him being awake since 4am to stargaze mad eh?? Discussing the Tuesday game did nothing to lighten the mood until Chelseaboy pulled out what looked like a hair extension and placed it on his head wondering if this might help him get a game today “Are you Sam Reed in disguise” you probably had to be there but boy did it make us all laugh (can’t wait to hear his explanation to Josie, when she goes looking for ‘said hair extension ).
Surprise surprise the pedestrian gate was not open, so Homer had either completely forgotten our request or the key was still lost or they figured todays crowd would be low and so we’d be safe and there were no puddles for Big Al to step into
Dave the Rave was AWOL for his turnstile today enjoying a well earned rest.
The bar was quiet with Crowey and BDK being todays serving wenches BDK assured us he had stocked up on CRT and was on the final countdown to what could be a very messy November .. We also had a chat about his latest celeb interview in the Biggy chronicle supporting the town getting a Wetherspoons – Good on you BDK the Green Army couldn’t agree more!!
Bozza was behind the counter (table) with ChrisB and his mate who I now know to be called Toddy. Dan’s dad Roy was in attendance and waiting for Dan to arrive, having missed the last couple of home games , Handlebar was in attendance to, this time being a little less hungover; he’s giving karaoke a miss for a while … Em&M arrived with Em having brought her mate, every little helps! Oh and M sporting his newly shawn barnet having had his annual haircut
Terry brought over Scotty’s drum for us to use today – however there was only one drumstick?? Not to worry our resident professional drummer in the form of ChrisB had his in the car… The Green Army did warn him that it can’t sound too good and show up our slightly dubious vocals..
As we waited at burger van end for the teams to choose sides (the sun was strong today) – there was a strong rumour that Wessex and HtH (Hit the horse) had entered the bar and low and behold they did indeed come out, to a chorus of “Wessex Wessex give us a wave” and take their places behind the goal with Tref TAH (I’m sure Tref would like me to assure everyone that they are in no way connected ). It’s good to have them back, but I fear we won’t be seeing Soulman any time in the foreseeable…
Frome won the toss – well I’m guessing that was the case as we went off to the BellEnd to watch the Waders kick towards us and the Sun I’m sure if I’ve got the sun’s position in away wrong a certain Mr Bunnyman will be quick to tell me.
My initial optimism having heard that Cam was fit and playing today, was put back to bed when I heard that Browney was still out… So we are missing Captain Fantastic, Super Sam Reed and now Waders no. 1
The 1st half was made up with the Waders having plenty of possession and few chances; the closest we came was ruined by a good save from their keeper at the end of a Bossman shot. Twinny took a knock towards the end of the half but soldiered on I’ll be honest there isn’t great deal more to be said about the 1st half…We were kept amused during the half with the young Waders doing their best to drum out a tune thanks to Chelseaboy handing over the drum we did have some success, but not a lot – must try harder lads!
We had a quick chat with Captain fantastic on half time, that is once we had realised it was indeed him and not some passing vagrant as you can tell I am not a big fan of the facial fuzz – sorry Gents, I did warn you and I can’t believe for one minute that Mrs Fantastic approves??? There was only one Wader who could carry this look and that was Luke Knight who we will no doubt be seeing on Tuesday as he now plays for Slough.
The 2nd half saw the Green Army venture over to the River side of the pitch due to the glaring sun it felt really strange and Bozza actually got lost we had to chant at him so that he found us… Oh and Bunnyman who had been put in charge of the drum had ‘accidently’ left it in the clubhouse ‘Luckily’ Bozza retrieved it for us. Talking about being lost accidentally or not – Em managed to lose M, but she did briefly reappear in order to retrieve her drink
As the 2nd half started it would appear that we had also lost our 2 centre halves in the form of Andy (Twinny) and Cam … No sooner had we realised this than we were punished with a goal from Powell on 45 minutes it was so early that neither Bozza nor Chelseaboy even saw it or believed we were 1-0 down. Not even ChrisB getting on the drums could lift our mood we did sing and chant but it was with heavy hearts when Frome added a 2nd goal 20 minutes later courtesy of Powell again … Bossman made it 2-1 on 93 minutes, but it was of little consequence as it was followed straight away by the final whistle…
One disappointing display from the Waders is unusual but 2 on the bounce is gutting for all involved But as we’ve said before we win as a team and we lose as a team and the Green Army march on!
It was an amusing walk back with Mr ‘Grumpy’ Bunnyman & MattyMouser – All I’ll say is if you’re gonna criticize a player make sure his 7ft tall dad isn’t behind you, LOL This particular dad was actually ok and we had a good laugh with him (btw criticism is a strong word and that was really the case, just a bit of a moan)
Oh and just an observation on my part – it would appear that the beards are bad luck … We didn’t have this run of bad luck when clean shaven… Just sayin’

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Cam,Browney,Sam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!
Tuesday night home to Slough

Nightmare on Bridge Street

Histon v Biggleswade 21st Oct 2014
Alcohol units – 1! (School night)
B’s Man of the Match – Nunny
Game rating – 1/10
Attendance – 130
In a repeat of nearly 2 weeks ago, the Wadermobile containing Big Al, Bunnyman, Chelseaboy and Matty mouser made its way into Bar Hill to pick me up from work, en route to Histon, for tonight match. On arrival at the carpark, Big Al produced the £1 for parking that we’d moaned so much about when play Cambridge City … Only to be informed that its £2 for Histon when question the quick witted carpark attendant retorted “Well they’ve got more money than us!”… Fair enough
Through the turnstiles and up to the club house for us, hoping that the drink selection might have improved since last 8th October (it was actually worse – no ale for Chelseaboy ). The only other people we could see in the clubhouse (drinking soft drinks) were Sam, Browney & Cam OH dear the latter 2 were not expected . Browney was still nursing a knock he picked up on Saturday and Cam had pulled his back trying to keep up with the youngsters at work (his words)… The only positive was that Craigy D was out and training, so looked like he’d be in today’s side
The bar wasn’t very busy with only Em & M and then another couple of home supporters popping in to joined us followed by the ‘golden goal’ sellers… We did get our money’s worth out of the car park when the very nice attendant reappeared asking if we had the red car and if so we’d (Bunnyman ) left the back door wide open… It appears there was some confusion, Bunnyman had held the door open for me but neither of us were bothered about shutting it… details!! and it gave Big Al a bit more exercise
BDK snuck out of the committee room to share his latest CRT, in the form of ‘nice’ biscuits… and to bemoan the fact that not only is he 21 days sober, buts he’s now on a diet as he hasn’t lost a pound…
Homer also paid a visit, feeling happy that now Chelseaboy is in possession of his long awaited shirt, there would be no more grief from the Green Army How wrong could he be!! Our latest (and just) gripe is the fact that the pedestrian gate is never open on match days and so we have to run the gauntlet of cars or worse still get soaked traipsing through muddy puddles poor Big Al and Chelseaboy last week… Anyway Homer assures us this will be rectified IF he can find the key!
Off we set to stand behind the home goal and were joined by Roger, Zane’s mum and then Mickey J. The 1st 20 minutes started well for us and apart from it being freezing cold it could be a good night Silly me… at the other side Akintunde put one past the keeper on 21 minutes we were all a little shocked as it didn’t look to be going past the keeper, but sadly it did… the match carried on at 1-0 until the whistle with Histon looking much the better side and chances for us being scarce…
Burger and Chips all around at half time (ok just me and Bunnyman went the whole hog, the others preferring one or the other ) – this you understand was to stave off the cold and boy was it cold!!! 8/10 for the food, very impressed the Green Army were . It was good to have a chat with Zane’s mum and I did ask I it was wrong of me to hope he fails his driving test?? Sorry Zane, purely selfish reasons… But at the very least I think him and Ian Rees are enjoying playing at the Waders
The 2nd half still didn’t see anything great from us and you kind of had the feeling this was going to be a full on nightmare just in time for Halloween I suppose… Freeman took full advantage on 72 minutes with a goal that, well, what can I say – from where we stood it made no sense that it wasn’t stopped; although to be fair apart from Em & MattyMouser we’re all the wrong side of 30..
By now Craigy D was on and there were some small flashes of the side we know and love in the dying minutes – but on a roll Histon took it to 3-0 courtesy of Clarke in the 92 minute…
To add insult to injury there was also an announcement that cars would be held in the car park for 5 minutes to allow the crowd to leave 1st – seriously its didn’t even look like 130…???
I’m not going to lie we were all gutted and no we weren’t great tonight but I’m also not taking it away from Histon, they didn’t play like a side bottom of the league.
I know Nunny has taken responsibility on himself and that is why he is my MoM – I get it, as a manager the buck stops with you (trust me after the week at work I’ve just had! ), but sometimes there really is nothing you can do in that particular situation, at that particular time with those particular circumstances. It wasn’t a failure who brought the Waders this far and it won’t be a failure who re-groups the troops and leads us on, on Saturday – IN NUNNY WE TRUST, in the Waders we believe; through good times and bad we stick together and NEVER EVER give up!

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Cam,Browney,Sam

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!
See you all Saturday for the Frome game!

Back to the Future…?

Biggleswade v Truro City 18th Oct 2014
Alcohol units – 3
B’s Man of the Match – Zane Banton
Game rating – 9/10
Attendance – 175
Big Al, DJ (now a fully-fledged Wader fan every other weekend) and I wandered straight down to Langford road today; Me, having spent the last week struggling with a knee injury positively sprinting thanks to some ‘magic’ tablets the Doc prescribed on Friday wonder if they’d help Super Sam Reed?? Who has now had the scan results and sound doubtful this side of Xmas
We arrived at 1.20pm before the turnstiles had even opened and before the Truro coach – Quite why Big Al had spent most of the morning hurrying me along I don’t know In we ‘Sneaked’ past the Doormen and sat waiting for Crowie to serve some drink and dispense with some pearls of wisdom … We even beat Bozza to it, who today was setting up stall alone and doing some proof reading of the program Why is todays blog titled ‘Back to the future’? well not least due to the front page of today’s program being dated 18th April 2014 with a picture of Evan Key who left us over a month ago .. I’m guessing a bit of cut and pasting was involved as we did play Truro City 15th April this year but to the best of my knowledge it is now October, Eeeek Bit embarrassing; Perhaps I need to start a side-line in program writing .. Still they all sold, as I do believe poor old Bozza ran out of them.
Chelseaboy arrived in time to save us from Crowie tales of woe (Well, he will Support a club such as Luton Town – what more can I say ) Roy was without Dan again (Dan went to watch Blackpool lose against Huddersfield 4-2… should’ve come to Langford rd Dan! ) but was meeting up with his mate from Truro so had already excused himself from standing with the riff raff… Em & M were in attendance – Em is bl00dy good at the those work rosta’s
Bunnyman (complete with Bunny-flu – that he very kindly decided to spread amongst the Green Army ranks ) & Mattymouser arrived a fair bit after 2pm with Sideshow Bob (ST. Neots were away at Cirencester today – and only managed a draw; Lewis Hilliard was on the score sheet again – must have stronger words with him ). Handlebar also made an appearance although he was suffering the effects of a late night singing Karaoke – Something about a geezer named Jerry Lee and a piano??? It was good giggle hearing how he is currently in Doghouse and grounded for the foreseeable not to mention the last time he went to Karaoke on a bike, it didn’t end well and let just say the bump on the head he received, perhaps goes a long way to explaining a few things I did laugh at Handlebar sharing the same theme tune as Chris Eubank ‘Simply the best’ – my fellow comrades will understand..
Tot’s Tim was back in the posh seats and Tref the armadillo hunter was back behind the goal. Still no Wessex or Soulman…
We set up camp in the Bel end the 1st half – I’m actually wondering if my injury was all of that “stamping up and down on the Bel End???” When I’d suggested this in the bar, it caused much merriment amongst the schoolboy humour?? Anyway I wasn’t taking any chances today and so kept my feet firmly on the floor.
The game started positively for both teams and Truro were no mugs as you would expect we were pretty evenly matched. Our new signing Liam Beech who appears to be a Stuart Farrell clone (I can see some Twinny moments happening again ..) started in place of Smudger who has left us and re-joined Lowestoft. On 34 minutes Super Zane Banton took the Waders 1-0 up following a pass from Ian Rees this lad (Zane) has so much promise, what a shame he’s a loanee. About 5 minutes later Big Al had to take DJ to the loo and so managed to miss the now signature move between Zane and Bossman on 40 minutes!!!
2-0 to the Waders at half time and back to the bar for a cheeky drink – I took the flag with me this time following the stones experience
Despite out chant Of “who ate all the cakes” BDK came over sharing with me his new strain of CRT (Cake replacement therapy), Battenberg was todays choice I did get a picture.. I also discovered that the hanky is still in use amongst certain gentlemen(bunnys) – I thought this was something only VERY old people still used, even Handlebar claims not to use them – although thinking about it, I dread to think what he does use
Being a decrepit lot today, we couldn’t be bothered to take back the Bel End and so just settled in at Burger van end for the 2nd half…
The 2nd half started much the same as the 1st with Browney making 2 superb saves from the veteran Barry Hales The turning point of the game came when at 2-0 and potentially coasting Connor Roberts received a red card; I can’t comment on the foul as I seriously didn’t see a thing; but there didn’t seem to be much argument about it, so I think it’s fair to say it was deserved.. 10 men against a feisty Truro city side was going to be a challenge in the extreme. On 91 minutes Truro looked to have got a late consolation goal courtesy of Duff (he certainly wasn’t). We could not believe it, when just 1 minutes later it was 2-2 at the hands of Wright – Oh Sh!t!! We would have hung our heads if it weren’t for a loan City fan goading us with “You’re not singing anymore!” We’re Waders and we never give up – and don’t ever insinuate otherwise OR that the Green Army wouldn’t support their boys!! Cue a string of ‘songs’ from us followed swiftly by a free kick to the Waders finishing with Pires scoring his 1st goal for us!!!! On the final whistle, the said fan could not leave fast enough – but not before Big Al had shaken his hand and wished him well
It was the right result (I suppose I would say that) if we’d have drawn, it would have been a travesty. I would like to mention the Truro City fans who reminded me of the Green Army when we go ‘away’ Although outnumbered they ‘sang’, cheered on their boys throughout and never gave up – Top fans!
Histon away Tuesday 21st (The Wadermobile will be transporting half the Green army – and no I will not be doing circuits prior to the game! )

Waders

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

Pinch Punch!

Biggleswade town fc v Cambridge City 1-4
31st March 2015
Alcoholic units- 1 (Only the club house counts!)
Game Rating – 2/10
Attendance – 179
After the euphoria of Saturdays game – yep you heard that right euphoric over a draw ?; Nope euphoric over a fantastic display of teamwork and football from my beloved Waders… As I was saying… Big Al and I ventured down to the New Inn (Big Al carrying the flag bag – please remember that bit ) for a couple; Bunnyman and Mattymouser joined us after having a cheeky burger at Georges hall (By all accounts the service is still leaving much to be desired – At this rate I’ll never persuade Big Al to give it a try! ) Matt’s treat. SideshowBob had decided to come and watch the Waders tonight and so joined us in the pub for pre match drinks he was on fine form this evening with stories ranging from the nymphomaniac gothic neighbour to bizarre methane induced sound effects… Pretty impressive to wake someone up from their slumber, thinking their tyres were being let down on the car ??? That has to take some beating… We were all very grateful to Sideshow not only for his one man cabaret but also for the lift he then gave us down to the mighty Langford road (saving us from some pretty evil looking weather).
On arrival at the clubhouse Big Al enquired after the flag…. Ooops… Apparently it wasn’t his fault it was mine?? Anyway the New Inn are keeping hold of it for me and I’ll collect Thursday evening ‘Any excuse’ …The clubhouse was fairly busy with quite a few travelling fans, not to mention Colin and the noisy boys… It looked like poor Tracy D had drawn the short straw and was alone behind the bar , to be fair she didn’t keep anybody waiting . It was good to see Stirling back in the fold (BP Dan was on his way) and we were quick to update him on Saturdays solid performance… Still no Handlebar?? Although rumour has it , he’s been seen playing darts of a Monday night; So maybe he has given up on the Waders as well as Bedford Town? Handlebar, Soulman and TC… Is it something we said..
There was no burger van tonight – apparently the van had been broken in to??? Why??? This would not be good for Em who would be late, getting here straight from work without her tea…
We made our way out for the start of the game and took shelter under the BelEnd with Dodger; Chelseaboy, Bozza, JT&son, M and BP Dan all joining us there. Twinny was on the bench again and to our utter amazement so was Stuart Farrell who was so key to that awesome display on Saturday??? Josh Beech took his place. CraigyD is still out (everything crossed for BH Monday). We’d also all just heard the news that Sam Reed has left us – I’m gutted, not least because I got on really well with his mum and Dad (Great people and she’s a ‘Top Bird’) but could he not have come back for us the last few desperate games of the season?? … I’m sure there is more to it than meets the ‘eye’ and M did provide some rumour and conjecture (sorry folks the Green Army rules “What goes on tour, stays on tour”).
With City kicking towards us in the 1st half, that is where most of the action took place – always a bad sign … A goal was coming from the ‘get go’ and it would be in the wrong half….sadly on 33 and 38 minutes this was indeed the case and we found ourselves 2-0 on half time…
Sadly the second half, still under the cover of the BelEnd (and now joined by Wessex) we were to see little action and City were now shooting toward the burger(less) van end and their efforts were rewarded on 69 minutes with another goal and then, again, a minute before time with what has to be said, was an amazing goal from Bacon – Like Em needed the lack of food rubbing in… (she had now joined us after a long shift at work). Beech did get us 1 back on 90 minutes, but too little too late..
So our game in hand is lost and next we face a side with an impressive away winning record… Many of us feel the the most important game is the one we face on Monday 6th April and make no mistake, clearly the Abbey brothers do to, well that or they were at a loose end last night….
Do you know what I think – Win, lose or draw its about that fighting spirit and that’s what we’ve got used to watching in seasons past and that is what we saw on Saturday, against a side 6th in the league… So for what its worth, I hope we see Twinny and Farrell start and I hope CraigyD is back to join the ‘Waders’, and when I say Waders, I mean, those lads that care if we win or lose – and do so as a TEAM not individuals… But then what do I know I’m just a girl, who’s favourite film is Rocky… (BTW doesn’t he (Rocky) look like Donners – I never noticed that before… Did I ever mention how much I miss Donners?)
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

InNunnywetrust

LettherealWadersstandup

(In my household pinchpunch was last day of the month as well as 1st – Big Al thinks its a stupid Eynesbury thing…. I’m now wondering if my mum just like to pinch me? )

The Hunger Game…

Hungerford town fc v Biggleswade town fc 1-1
28th March 2015
Alcoholic units- o (Me and Big Al shared the driving…. )
B’s M(‘s)oM – Stuart Farrell & MG Lee Allinson (I make exception for today as last week I didn’t choose one and frankly today it was difficult to pick out 1 single player)if I could of had 3, it would have been ‘Cool as a cucumber’ Couls
Game Rating – 9/10
Attendance – 150
Myself Big Al and Bunnyman made the trip today – we chose the Wadermobile over the players minibus and Homers lilac dream machine … Unfortunately most of the rest of the Green Army were otherwise engaged, with either work, fishing, family stuff or in M’s case he was grounded (according to Em). It was a battle getting out of the Wade with London road being shut again! But by 12:15 we were on the way – I’m not sure what time the players and officials left but Mo was at the mighty Langford road at 9:30 when we’d walked past on our Saturday route march this morning; it’s funny because we also saw a battered old white transit go in at that time and you had to wonder had Homer arranged the players transport …. Big Al made pretty good time on the journey down right up until the M4 junction J11-12 when we were delayed a good 30 minutes thanks to some nob head who’d managed to turn their landrover & trailer over in what were near perfect driving conditions … Although the funniest thing here was the complete ‘bell end’ who came zooming down the hard shoulder thus avoiding all the queue….. Only to see him on the receiving end of a very p!ssed off traffic cop as we eventually got through #Karma
Hungerford looked like quite an interesting town – Sadly we only knew it because of the events back in 1987 and the events of this week probably brought that back to the fore for some – There are simply no word to describe such evil…
Anyway spot on with the sat nav eta we arrived at the Bulpit stadium at 14:29. We spotted the green a white of Dodger a mile off – I’m guessing he bunked in with the players… Well I suppose someone has to keep an eye of them? Once in the clubhouse (first having to fight out way though people to get to the door ) it was pretty impressive AND they have BT sports! not to mention 2 pints for £5.20, Big Al and Bunnyman were so impressed they had to squeeze in another not sure how much my can of coke was… Did I mention we were sharing the driving..? I wasn’t really bothered as we’d arranged to have a couple in the New Inn later (so my eyes were on the prize so to speak )… It was a good view of the slopey undulating pitch from the clubhouse and a much safer vantage point to watch some of the goal practice – I’ll just say some players are in defence for very good reason
It was great to see captain fantastic on the pitch and it looked like he would be starting – Twinny on the other hand was warming up but still very wrapped up indicating he was going to be on the bench again – although he likes the cold about as much as I do, so who knows? On that note I was taking no chances after last week’s ice cold experience and had my trusted Parker on Luckily we had a good view from the clubhouse as the team and officials made their way out at and the game kicked off 5 minutes early… Guessing the ref was on a promise ? We made our way out and over to stand at the far end goal, stopping briefly to greet Nunny who by his own admission is currently all consumed by football. We joined a few kids in the stand (Was it going to be another Dunstable??) and ‘sort of’ put the flag up … We were soon joined by another couple (not seen before) but it turns out they were Waders fans – Bunnyman had already guessed this as in the bar the lady had order 2 Jack Daniels and much to the barmans shock, no mixer Must be Waders… So I’m guessing parents or family of one of our players (this is always a worry with Bunnyman – remember the Goalies dad… ), my money is on Mike King who I haven’t seen play before.
It was a wet windy and miserable day and the Waders were kicking uphill. Gents was back as skipper, a very fuzzy faced Farrell was up front, a newly shorn (so much better) MG Lee was in his usual spot commanding the midfield, Brownie took charge in goal (where else?) with the support of Couls, Connor, Cam and as previously mentioned our very own captain fantastic – I can’t tell you how great it is to see him starting again for us .. Immediately you knew today wasn’t going to be the doom and gloom I’d been expecting – the team looked like the Waders of old, strong, hungry and full of heart
We started strongly and most of the action was in the Hungerford half, we had some nice passing in our midfield. I’m thinking Stu Farrell had feasted on 3 shredded wheat this morning as he was immense as the lone striker, challenging as winning balls that in reality should have been lost – he looked like a player reborn holding the ball up well and his passing was 1st class On 10 minutes following some nice passing by all the midfield the ball came to MG Lee who powered it home leaving their goalie no chance – it was a great goal, a superb strike The Waders looked more than comfortable but a slip in defence on 25 minutes (against the run of play) saw Hungerford equalise… The next 20 minutes continued with both teams being equal and a great shot from Farrell that just went wide.
Half time saw a magical mystery tour for me trying to find the loo’s and ending up in the food queue – I think I got away with it … talking of queues, the ref was ‘Right on queue’ being back out at 15:55 (I’m telling you he was defo on a promise!) we had a bit of a laugh ref Nunny’s exchanges with the ref during the 1st half; when he asked the ref to do his job properly the ref had replied “Why don’t you manage your team properly” touché… So behind the goal for us again this time with no shelter (although the rain had given up by now) I left flag duties to Bunnyman and Big Al…. It’s a good job Em wasnt here today, that’s all I’m saying I discreetly moved a way to get some shots from behind the goal (and to be fair I got some good ones – I was also not trusting Big Al to protect me from the ball )
Again we started the half strongly and only a good save by their keeper denied Stu Farrell (I captured this); the Waders held firm during the half that saw Farrell drop back to centre half and King be replaced by Burnett due to injury Nunny was shutting up shop – Hungerford came at us in the dying minutes and thank God for our Waders no.1 who made at least 3 1st class saves . So we got a point and the same result as the last time the teams met… Personally I think we were worth 3 points in that game and this was discussed at length on the not so long journey home (I was behind the wheel ) – as Bunnyman pointed out to me, if Nunny had put on Bossman and we lost 3-1 we would have been complaining why didn’t we shut up shop..? Fair point.
So in summary a very good Waders performance with some outstanding efforts from Mark Coulson, Connor Roberts, Mike King, MG Lee, Brownie, Farrell. This is why I support the Waders and I know I’m speaking for the Green Army to when I say that.
I dropped Big Al and Bunnyman at the New Inn & popped home to get changed before joining them both to enjoy a nice glass of pinot (or 3) – what more can you ask, a great day, great company, ok not 3 points but a great effort from a great TEAM of players.
In other news Arlesley only managed a point, Burnham are relegated (despite coming back from 3-1 down to Weymouth to 3-3 ) – Bank Holiday Monday is going to be a cracker!! Although Cambridge City on Tuesday and Cireccester on Saturday – Lets hope the Green Army are out in ‘force’, to support our boys!

InNunnywetrust

RIPGermanWings155

Mar, 2015

Superstition

BIGGLESWADE TOWN 0 v BANBURY UTD 0
21st March 2015
Alcoholic units- 2
Game Rating – 2/10
Attendance – 154
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behaviour has the power to influence an outcome, when there’s no logical connection between them.
After a rather disappointing semi eclipse but then what turned out to be a delightful spring like day on the Friday, many of us were fooled into thinking a few less layers for today’s match … Literally the whole of Saturday morning was spent just waiting for a ‘reasonable’ time to make our way down to Lanford road – No New Inn for us today:

The Rugby was on (zzz)
And we had DJ in tow…
Nunny had decided to bring the lucky joggers back out of semi-retirement , and so following his lead I decided to retrace my good luck charms, the ponytail was easy (and sorry lads, yes you as well Lee, it does look better on a girl… Even today’s lino sported one ) and then it occurred to me, having earlier been sorting out my wardrobe(s) and shoes collection I’d stumbled across a dusty old converse box containing my Waders lucky pumps – last worn for the now infamous Rugby game in 2013:
They haven’t been worn since as I cannot put up with the ridicule from Big Al who feels the need to sing ‘smooth criminal’ to me and reinact the Michael Jackson dance move – thus suggesting my size five’s look huge, like clown shoes
Anyway encouraged by Nunny and in dire need of some Lady luck today, on they went! I wasted my final hour before we set sail watching a documentary on a Killer whale in captivity who had, shock horror, killed a couple his trainers??? Like I said I was killing time until the footie…
When we arrived – it was soon apparent we were completely and utterly unsuitable dressed for today’s biting wind … Crowie was behind the bar giving out his pearls of wisdom (?) and there were already quite a few Banbury in place. Bozza made an appearance behind his makeshift counter and Big Al got himself yet another pin badge – pretty sure one day we’ll find a collection of them behind the sofa… We were soon joined by Chelseaboy and then Bunnyman and Mattermouser appeared having frequented the New Inn beforehand… It was good to catch up, it’s been a while – (well if you don’t count Sunday and then Monday I can’t believe it has been reported to Bunnyman that we were in the New Inn every night last week – I refute that allegation on the basis that we didn’t even go out Wednesday or Friday night! – I mean, who’s counting anyway? ) So a good old chat was had:
• Where’s Handlebar gone?
• Twitter – Good or bad
o Speaking of which whats occurring with Gazza
o Being underwhelmed by the food at The embankment hotel in Bedford
o Mcculloch being amazed that we have electricity in Bedfordshire?
o Fuertevtura being to chilly at night in March
§ but 5 euros for 2 large wines!
§ The Hitchin game…
On the latter point, apparently comments were made about whether some of us would still support the Waders( if God forbid we are relegated ) and bother with season tickets next season – Well yes!, we support the team through thick and thin; that’s what makes us the green army , we might be few in number but not in spirit … I do have to wonder about some people… ? why bother coming down just to moan, well that’s ok but I mean sometimes it feels like there are those people about that would be happy to see us back down in the south Midlands league; That’s people for you I suppose, just gets on my nerves at times..
It was great to see Nikki come to watch us today
4 of us went in together for the goal predictor, I went for 0-0, 3-1 for Chelseaboy, 3-0 for Big Al and I think 2-0 for Bunnyman/Mattymouser.
You’ll notice I’m doing my best to avoid talking about the match but I suppose I ought to have a go.. We were now joined by Em&M and ChrisB had joined Bozza oh and not forgetting Wessex and HtH Keith – so we all made our way to the BelEnd in the hope of getting some desperately needed shelter. Dodger was already in place in his trusted kit… Due to Brian Doggett being out of action having broken his leg a few weeks back It was good to see him there today Terry and his lady friend were in charge of the raffle, we all stuck to pound coins…
In a nutshell the game was pretty poor (Oh no, I just turned into one of those people ) with few chances – the 1st half Banbury were kicking towards the BelEnd and frankly most of the play was at this end – BUT very few chances DJ was hyper, he either thought we were winning or it was the E numbers in the poweraids he’s been drinking . I was so pleased when the whistle went for half time – I could barely feel my feet (The last time they were in these pumps it was a steaming hot bank holiday Monday); Chelseaboy had got the drinks in – more E numbers for DJ, he was just starting to ‘come down’ … Back to the BelEnd for the 2nd half and still much the same. Myself and Em went off for hot drinks (hmmm Bovril for me) and I brought back a hotdog for Big Al that DJ promptly took off him… The Banbury keeper made a couple of good saves as did Brownie in the dying minutes…
All in all I just wanted to get home and warm – not a good day at the office, although my score won (To be honest, we’d all happily swap our £23 kitty for the 3 points that were on offer today ) It was long walk home for us; Chelseaboy, me, Big Al, Em & M and I think it’s fair to say the general consensus was its didn’t feel like a team today (or by all accounts, Hitchin) but then with the amount of new faces (2 more today), and injuries (Twinnyy, CraigyD & Sam?) that isn’t going to happen overnight But if anyone can motivate and get a team to play together, then that is Nunny and in Nunny the Green Army TRUST
On a positive note, Nunny can chuck those joggers – Superstition, I have decided isn’t what it’s cracked up to be; you make your own luck in this life.
Hungerford next weekend, we weren’t going to go – but to quote Big Al “It’s at times like this that the team needs your support” So the Wadermobile may well be making the journey West on Saturday..

Superstition gone mad:
England’s great captain always insisted on being the last person to put on his shorts before kick-off. For Bobby Moore this was not a light issue. In 1981 journalist Desmond Morris wrote the following: “Moore’s team-mate Martin Peters was fascinated by the way he stood around holding the shorts, waiting for everyone else to finish dressing.” Peters would put on his shorts, wait until Moore had put on his shorts too. Peters would then suddenly take off his own again.
Moore would inevitably respond by taking off his shorts again, and only put them back on after Peters had done so too.

InNunnywetrust

RIPTwigs

Fifty shades of GREEN

BIGGLESWADE TOWN 3 v CORBY TOWN 2
28th February 2015
Alcoholic units- 3 (ISH….)
B’s MoM – Gavin Hoyte
Game Rating – 9/10
Attendance – 254
Having waited what seems like an eternity for a home game, the Green Army met up in the ‘chosen’ pub, The New Inn – Bunnyman and Matty mouser were already well oiled and so myself Big Al and Chelseaboy necked a couple ourselves before setting off for the mighty Langford road stadium….As we staggered walked towards the ground SideshowBob pulled up and in we all clambered (How many Waders can you get in a Ford Focus? )… Anyway on reaching the assault course that is now the driveway into the ground we spotted Nunny and team training at the front – I’m sure he appreciated our greetings .. In actual fact he must of, as he promptly came in a bought us all drinks… This we took as Nunny wanting to help lubricate our vocal chards and get some noise going – and you know how obliging we all are.. Bozza was struggling with just a handful of programs that promptly sold out before the delayed Corby crowd finally arrived . Today we settled at Burger van end for the 1st half with BP Dan, Stirling, M&Em and The Waders legend himself Donners, who paid us a surprise visit (he is currently ‘resting’ ) – It was great to see him, although Bunnyman was clearly more excited by it, knocking my wine all over the place when going in for a ‘man hug’ …Like I say, it was great to see Donners, oh how we all miss him – such a big character I was starving and could of eaten a horse , so partway through the half I paid Burger van Mick a visit for one of his infamous delicacies – Now ok, it may well have been the wine, but I have to say that was the best cheeseburger I’ve had in a long while … I’m glad I got my fill when I did because rumour has it he ran out of supplies before the game was done
December 6th was our last win in the league so this game mattered … We looked big and strong as a side and started well – sadly we were a goal down within 5 minutes , luckily David Hutton put things right on 16 minutes we looked immense! It was the BelEnd for us the 2nd half and boy did we make some noise especially when wonderboy CraigyD put one away after just 5 minutes Josh Beech took us to 3-1 just 10 minutes later but sadly not long after he was sent packing by the ref … Oh dear, 10 men. It was during this half that Brownie made the save ‘dreams’ are made of – it would, for sure, of been played over and over on MOTD… A near miss from CraigyD showed our intent; we weren’t shutting up shop, Hell no! We were going for it … With just a couple of minutes to go another red card was shown, this time it evened things up for us however .. Corby scored again with a minute to go and then we had the longest extra 5 minutes EVER …. But my God we did it and frankly its felt like we’d won the FA cup. The whole team were awesome today – but we all agreed it was Gavin Hoyte who deserved the crown – he was immense
It was shame to hear about some of the away fans behaviour on the day – to be fair we (The Green Army) didn’t have any trouble or see anything untoward; But apparently there were some bits, its the same old story and few ruin it for the majority…
Well done lads – We can do this

InNunnywetrust

GetwellsoonBrianD

Indecent proposal

27th January 2015
Bedford Town v Waders 0-1
Alcoholic units- 0
B’s MoM – Craigy D
Game Rating – 7/10
Attendance – 117
3 of us made the journey today in the Wadermobile, me, Big Al and Bunnyman. Not a huge amount to say really apart from Craigy D looking to be back at his best and a welcome win… I’ll be honest its taken nearly 2 months to write this short blog having only just got over the shock of my half time entertainment
So the highlight was probably at half time (for some )when the 3 of us made our way back to the clubhouse and a low / husky voice rumbled out “’Ere, How’d you fancy a room in Falmouth in |March?” Shocked by such a proposal and starting to recognise the voice I looked desperately in front of me for the support of my dear husband and Bunnyman…. Nope, nowhere to be seen – they’d run off laughing like school kids having heard the words uttered from Dave the rave…. Yeah cheers! Anyway thankfully all was ok, he was merely offering the room as someone had pulled out of the Truro trip March 7th.. Thankfully myself and Big Al will be making our way to Fuertevenrura that particular weekend. Still it greatly amused my 2 fellow supporters.
A good win – but its the league I’m interested in…
#InNunnywetrust

Only the lonely

24th January 2015
Burnham Town v Waders 1-1
Alcoholic units- 3
B’s MoM – Kelvin Bossman
Game Rating – 6/10
Attendance – 104 (??)
With the thought of no home game until 21st Feb Burham was a must today. Bunnyman couldn’t make it on account of being up at silly o clock to ‘capture’ Jupiter and then having to work – Dodger was also AWOL due to work commitments so it was to be a sorry old away showing from the Green Army today with just me Big Al and Chelseaboy making the journey south…
On arrival there looked to be a quite impressive stand (looking from the outside) and as we’d made good time we went to the clubhouse 1st a set up a bit like Arlesley, the clubhouse being outside of the ground, although that is where the comparisons stopped; it was freezing cold (both Big Al and Chelseaboy kept their coats on) with little or no atmosphere the toilets were much warmer to be fair.. At 2.40pm there were just 5 people in the bar and that included us 3???? Chelseaboy was convinced that there must be another bar in the gound..(there wasn’t). It was a bit of worry when we’d not long arrived being joined by Homer who stated that he wanted to come here as he had aspirations for our club to be the same??? OMG, I’m hoping he meant the gym facilities etc (which did look pretty busy).
MG Lee’s Faye and son also made the journey to watch her man today – that’s love for you, her mum was happy to babysit and she chose the football
In the ground I started a count of the supporters in place and those coming through the turnstiles… I didn’t get above 33 by kick off? It was pretty stunning watching the red kites fly overhead – maybe they’re secret Gores fans? Nunny and Gents had a quick chat with us and we were surprised when Connor didn’t rush in tto get changed? He reliably informed us that he wasn’t starting today??
We made our way around to the stand, on the side of the dug outs and hung up the trusted Waders flag – Big Al missed Nunny’s photo opportunity when he went off in search of the loo (all that diet coke!). It was a funny old stand? The stanchions holding in up at the front (bloody great metal girders were pitch side – I wonder if any over enthusiastic player has ever mad contact? ) It was mulchy and muddy in the stand (made my new trainers dirty ) but that was nothing compared to the pitch, which was VERY boggy in places
I shan’t labour too much about the match, it was a much better display from the Waders with Twinny, Couls, Hoyte all putting in a remarkable 90(2) minutes of effort but make no mistake Burnham didn’t look like a side at the bottom of the league (to be fair their run of form over the last 7 games was better than us albeit by just the 3 points…), but with us desperate for a win, having only managed 1 draw since our last win on December 6th (7 games ago) we certainly came out fighting and Josh Beech another player who had a very good game gave us the lead on 28 minutes Big Al even managed to film it!
What was hugely apparent to the 3 of us was the lonely figure of Kelvin Bossman throughout the whole of the game he was immense today and played his heart out… but what is he to do, just him, against 4 big defenders? But, trust me it wasn’t for lack of effort or putting himself all over the pitch that he didn’t score today. *Just a thought, I’d love to see Craigy D play up front with him
Sadly Lee Reed missed a sitter later on – but it’s very easy to say when you’re just watching… In the dying minutes of extra time we had a corner and I had this dreadful feeling when I saw the short ball played…. It doon fell into the feet of Burnham and low and behold they scored on 92 minutes, with the ref blowing for full time straight after I can’t repeat the language…
So it was a rubbish day all around for footy today – Spurs and Chelsea both lost to lower teams in the FA cup Gotta love it – Sorry Big Al and Chelseaboy ). But hey you could be a Blackpool supporter like BP Dan (he chose to watch them today) and watch your team lose 7-2 having been 2-0 up…
What a depressing ground and what a depressing result today – Although I have to be honest in my summary and the result was probably fair overall.
It was a quick and pretty quiet journey home we go again Tuesday at Bedford, its (only) the Beds Senior cup of which we are the current holders – so heads up lads lets finish January on a high!
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”
Bill Shankly

InNunnywetrust

‘Never Forget’

20th January 2015
Waders v Rugby Town FC 2-0
Alcoholic units- 0
B’s MoM – Connor Roberts (3 in a row the young superstar)
Game Rating – 2/10
Attendance – Not sure, but felt like no more than 100?
Still recovering from losing to St. Neots on Saturday , but having survived the onslaught from the Saints fans at work not to mention Mr H… I was ready for tonight’s game, although I was surprised it was on (thought the pitch would be frozen?…
It was always going to be a sorry old turn out tonight, even Matty Mouser stayed home to watch the redmen draw with Chelski.
Em and M joined Big Al, Bunnyman, Stirling, Chelseaboy, BP Dan, Wessex, Bozza and me in the bar to report that the BelEnd had been taken …. On arrival at the BeEnd they were indeed right – although Dodger had seen them off and was a lonely figure guarding our territory I say our territory, it looked like it belonged to the opposition who had swathed it in super sized flags – I counted 5, infact so big were they, I kid you not, they had a suitcase to hold them; not just any suitcase, but one the size I take on holiday (I’ll let you imagine )… With no Soulman and BP Dan being forgetful – it meant just the one flag for us which I placed in the only remaining space behind the goal … Next to theirs ours looked like a hankie . Sadly we didn’t get a photo – not keen on being reminded of our inadequacies – I hadn’t brought my phone; it was suffering the same problem as Homers the last game ..
I forgot to mention in the last blog, that Wessex and Keith HtH were off ice skating Sunday 18th – How I would love to see Keith on skates (I suspect he never left the bar though!) – anyhow Wessex wasn’t displaying any war wounds so I’m guessing all was well … The game was delayed by 25 minutes as the team coach was held up on the way – we actually got held up behind the coach attempting to park on the way in (typical we drive on the night the pedestrian gate is open ). Most of the Green Army were suitably winter attired, in fact Big Al was wearing his now famed anti avalanche coat tonight – you never know in Biggleswade!!
We were joined by a lone Rugby fan just prior to kick off – it was only after 5 minutes that he confessed he’d assumed we were Rugby – bloody flags!. Anyway after the ‘toss’ with the opposition choosing to kick towards the BelEnd the rest of the Rugby crew, who’d made tonight’s journey, set up camp behind Brownie.
A lacklustre start from both sides, but good to see Twinny back in the starting side and Cam! I still struggle with the fact our announcer cannot pronounce Twinny’s surname … Our defence played well in the 1st half and for me, Twinny and Connor stood out with some brilliant tackles and nippy runs (from Connor). Sadly on pretty much half time our very own Captain fantastic was judged to have ‘handballed’ now this was plain for us to all see, yes it was handball (by the letter of the law – according to Big Al), but he had actually turned away raised his arms and the ball hit him square on the back of his right shoulder… I mean I thought it was a bit tight to award a penalty, but I bow down to those who know better… Now the result of the following penalty kick, caused Bunnyman to cheer out loud – long with the Rugby fans…? Apparently he had seen Brownies hand touch the ball and in falling back with sheer glee, completely missed the fact that the ball still hammered home into our goal.. Oops!
A pretty uneventful half time and back up to the BelEnd for the 2nd half, having collected a cup of Bovril from Burger van Mick (and it was the tastiest things I’ve had this week – yep I’m back counting the calories – which means I will be surviving on dust this month ). The 2nd half looked to be a repeat of so many we’ve seen this season, it was as if it were a different Wader side to the 1sthalf and unfortunately unlike seasons past, it wasn’t a NEVER GIVE Up/In, side that came out..??
I’m guessing at the timing here, but at around 10 or so minutes in we had a good call for a ‘proper’ handball that was denied! Twinny and Bossman came off this half and It would appear we have a new signing someone Bamford (couldn’t hear it properly)???? I did look on the official website, but according to that we still have Evan, Max, Zane (I wish!), Jordan and Farrell… So I have no idea about this new name? So with smoke blowing across the pitch – and I can vouch for Dodger, it wasn’t his funny fags this time – we played on, but it wasn’t to be our night and I’m not sure we had a shot on target to be honest, I’d say 70% of the action was the other end (Chelseaboy stayed burger van end for the 2nd half – and we weren’t even singing.. but I’ll catch up with him on Saturday to hear more) anyway the match was put to bed on 71 minutes by the opposition and despite some last minute Wader flurry’s it was not to be tonight!
Now I’m not lying when I say I’m not bothered by that cup I’m more concerned about our league performance – the rest of the Green Army don’t necessarily agree (or didn’t before this result). It wasn’t our best tonight and not a patch on Saturday – but lets not forget the journey we’ve been on and where we’ve come from; Most importantly its in the ‘bad’ times that we should stick together in my experience its the bad times that show you who you can and can’t rely on Sadly that can be quite surprising (and disapointing) at times, but fear not – the Green army are going nowhere!
So Burnham on Saturday it is – Me, Big Al and Chelseaboy will defo be there!

InNunnywetrust

“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”
Bill Shankly

The one that got away…..

17th January 2015
ST. Neots v Waders 2-1
Alcoholic units- 1… (Sorry but the bar was a nightmare, biggest queue this season!)
B’s MoM – Connor Roberts
Game Rating – 7/10
Attendance – 491
Not my most anticipated derby game I have to say… and with our ‘dubious’ form of late compared to the Saints 13 points out of the last 15 – My pessimism was reaching new lows… Still Lewis had assured me he would probably be on the bench (so at least Mr Hilliard wouldn’t let me down..? ) #Waderstrainawayday was the hash tag for today’s foray into Cambridgeshire. True to form and desperate to watch some football it’s been 17 days! The Green Army met in the New Inn for a couple and then made our way to the station where Big Al used his anorak abilities to get the 5 of us a group saver £2.30 each what a bargain, so much so that Matty Mouser paid for Bunnyman and himself using a fiver and let Big Al keep the change … On arrival at the platform there was already a Wader fan waiting and we were soon joined by a couple more, not to mention Wessex who was topping himself up between the whistle and the Cozy stadium (apparently Polish beer is all the rage? ) so a quick journey to St.Neots, collecting Keith (HtH) en route, then a 5 minute walk to the ground – Its so much better with that bridge! The clubhouse was busy, but we were able to get served before the queues started forming. Sideshow Bob was there to greet us, but that would be the only time he’s be joining us today as sadly he’s a blue Myself and Chelseaboy found ourselves seats to rest our weary legs and contemplate the coming 90 minutes – Stirling and BP Dan joined us to look over the team sheet that Homer handed – Twinny on the bench again ??? Oh and Lewis not on the bench but in the team!?!
Big Al was chatting to JT (about trains no doubt) and was then joined by Rowan a Twitter ‘FWIEND’ and Saints fan – I didn’t get to speak to him but am assured he’s a good guy
We set up camp behind the goal and were joined by Bozza, ChrisB, Em & M who all drove?
St Neots came at us early on with a couple of good chances including a good Brownie save! Captain Fantastic had a shot on goal from a Craigy D cross but as with our previous match, their goalie was to play a blinder this game (his 997th league match I’m told! ) and hooked it over the bar… Unfortunately a ‘soft’ (we couldn’t see where we were – but I am assured of this from some Saints fans at that end) penalty was awarded and on 19 minutes Lewis stepped up for the Saints and banged it home!!! I made a note to have words Monday…
The match was pretty even with a good save from Brownie and a super chance for us that was sure to be goal but sadly for us and Ollie Thorne it was way off the ‘mark’…
Josh Beech had a go in the 2nd half but it hit the post. Another ‘soft’ penalty was awarded in the 80th minutes – but this time to us – I couldn’t look… But I shouldn’t have doubted Bossman 1-1…
Sadly on 91 minutes we maybe went to sleep – I’m not sure – But what ever happened, it allowed St.Neots to sneak a winning goal…
Gutted yes – we should have had a point from that game and we certainly were not outplayed. There were plenty of ‘proper’ Saints fans who said this to us as we left… But at least we played the best I’ve seen for a lot of games this season – Not bad for a bus stop in Potton, eh???

InNunnywetrust

Glory Glory….?

NYD 2015
Arlesey v Waders 2-1
Alcoholic units- 0
B’s MoM – Connor Roberts
Game Rating – 3/10
Attendance – 222
Having decided the walk from the Arlesley train station would be far too much for the Green Army today, I was the nominated driver …. It was a windy and cold day, maybe not the best for a football match; but at least it would be a chance for some of the Green Army to regroup after the sorry old Boxing Day game… No Bunnyman, MattyMouser or Em today, just me Big Al, Chelseaboy and M in the Wadermobile.
On arrival at the ground we headed for the bar – which you cannot get to, pitch side, prior to kick off. It was good to see a few more Green Army in the bar, namely Bozza, JT, Small Dave K , Big Dave K and Mad Hatter. The clubhouse is one of the better ones I have been to and has really good facilities, but most importantly the feel of a proper pub, not that I could appreciate it fully with a diet coke in hand
We headed to the raised stand behind their goal for the 1st half – it was pretty windy up there but proved to be a great view (perhaps we could get some stilts for the BelEnd??? ) anyway as I was the designated driver and with Em missing it was decided that Flag Duties should fall to Big Al today…. Now I’m not sure if he was employing the old ‘If I do the ironing really badly, she won’t ask me again’ technique or he really is, um how do I put this??? A bit of a ‘spaz’ when it comes to flag hanging… Either way Chelseaboy saved the day Tref the Armadillo hunter joined us as did Stirling & BP Dan. Dodger was kitted up in his faithful striped jumper & hat preferring the relative shelter of the covered stand next to us – although we could still smell funny fags Rog??
So with a starting line including 5 ex Arlesey players the game kicked off with the wind against us and we started strongly; Within a minute we had a free kick, which unfortunately Kelvin was unable to get hold of… A couple of strong chances followed for the home team but not to worry 5 or so minutes later Kelvin made amends for his earlier Misdemeanour, 1st blood to the Waders
Brownie had a good save later on and we were all speculating how much better it would be for us 2nd half with the wind assuming it didn’t change direction. Craigy D had a good chance a bit later but unfortunately their goalie was going to earn his keep this game and so he did when Kelvin tried for a 2nd with his head – not today Bossman . More chances came for Arlesey and so no surprise when on 26 minutes they made it 1-1.
Josh Beech could of brought it back but instead shot just past the post – this really isn’t good for the nerves, I was sure it would go in! The ball spent a bit more time with the home team before Boy wonder Craigy D took out 2 defenders on a run for goal, but alas just past the post – again my heart was in my mouth …Brownie was to make another 2 great saves before half time. Surely the 2ndhalf should be ours for the taking..?
Now I’ll confess, I’m not the most optimistic when it comes to football… but I was already planning my blog – I mean with a player called Halelujah on the pitch and our bad form of late about to take a turn for the better.. Perfect? I should have kept that thought to myself
Arlesey came out strong and we looked to be a completely different team to the 1st half… Early on the aforementioned player tried a shot on goal but thanks to the nifty Connor Roberts he was denied as was a shot from a corner shortly after . Sadly on 52 minutes Halejujah ruined my blog and my day when he shot past Brownie with what would be the winning goal… MG Lee was to be denied by the wind then Bossman again by their Goalie Thompson . Craigy D had a couple of good crosses, but they were going nowhere as no-one came in to collect . A couple free kicks for MG Lee were well delivered but both were shot over the bar on receipt
Hallelujah did try again but was expertly tackled by Connor Roberts I think he was probably annoyed by my spoilt blog too
So 2-1 it finished, in my humble opinion, unlike our last meeting at the Armadillo, the best team won today
The funniest thing about today, and trust me it’s hard to find when you lose – but their manager screaming at the team to celebrate after a goal..???? I thought Tref would go into melt down…
Good banter with their goalie today – top lad, just wished he hadn’t played such a blinder!! And as for Halelujah, Happy New year!
So a sorry, quiet drive home for the 4 of us – not much to say really; Gutted.

InNunnywetrust

New Years Honours 2014

Well it’s the time of year again, our very own Waders honours list in recognition of the achievement of 2014:
Best Goal

CraigyD home (away) to Brentwood at St. Neots ground – Fantastic turn and shot
Best Cross
Zane Banton – awesome moves to the byline, just when you though the ball had gone out, he’d manage to cross inevitably for a goal
Mark Coulson – some great performances so far this year, that goal is on the way Couls
Unsung Hero
Brian Doggett – all that abuse when we don’t win the raffle
Homer of course… Best game
Last game of last season Hemel

Best Hair

Smudger – although it did set a ‘bad’ precedent..

Funniest Moment

Terry rescuing Scotty from the quicksand
The worlds oldest ball boy
Me, Bunnyman and Chelseaboy taking back the BelEnd from the ‘Stones’ Best Green Army ‘song’
La la la lalalaLA……………………….Wadeeers (Thanks for the song Maidstone!)
Oh oh oh he’s magic… You’ll never get past Styeve Gentleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……..
Best visiting away supporters
Hemel
Maidstone Best away supporters
Poole Town – Brilliant, friendly and welcoming! (Cheap beer) and Processco!! Best away Ground
Dorchester Town FC
I hate to say St. Neots Town FC Most underrated player
Mark Coulson – He has been phenomenal this year

Most Improved Best loan Player

Zane Banton – Awesome!
Most missed Player
Brett ‘Donners’ Donnelly I know, I know… I’ll let it go in my own time

Player of the Year

Brownie – What can I say, truly, truly outstanding; The best goalie in the league FACT!
As for the Gaffer, Chris Nunn, he still walks on water, albeit the ICE variety his record still speaks for itself – it’s a difficult 2nd season in the southern premier league, but we have faith

All the best for 2015 for my fabulous Green Army mates – you made 2014 special, thankyou

Dun…But not out

26th December 2014
Waders v Dunstable 0-2
Alcoholic units- 2… (Big Al spilt the 3rd!)
B’s MoM – Captain Fantastic
Game Rating – 3/10
Attendance – 202
Lets be honest any supporter worth their salt loves Christmas, nothing to do with santa’s visit on the 25th but everything to do with dusting off the cobwebs and meeting up with mates to watch the boxing day match and we’re no exception, so having collected Big Al’s son DJ from Letchworth (he was already chanting “Green Army!” – can’t think why his mum doesn’t like me; but that’s a whole other story!
So with DJ in tow it meant, no New Inn for us, and so, straight down to Langford road for the 1pm kick off, we ventured, arriving to see a locked pedestrian gate – Homer had promised faithfully via twitter, that the gate would be open… It turns out he was running late.
Big Mo was behind the bar, with what has to be said the best santa hat EVER! It made our sequinned green and white efforts look a bit ordinary… We were soon joined by Chelseaboy who is nursing an injured food (something involving a hammer and brick – and I bet he was in flip flops! ). Bozza was behind the Waders stall and was today joined ChrisB and what looked like the youngest Bozza… Bunnyman wasn’t far behind with MattyMouser who’d brought along Minnie for company … Em & M soon joined us along with Em’s mate who Minnie referred to as biscuit boy?? Anyway the hats were shared out between 5 of us – and despite Minnies best efforts, this did not include MattyMouser – far too cool for all that; not so myself, Big Al, Bunnyman, Chelseaboy, M and Em (who later lost her’s to Jammy Dodger) . Stirling and BP Dan were joined today by who I’m assuming is the uber glamorous Mrs Stirling, BP Dan’s mum – Stirling probably wasn’t trusted to drive ‘carefully’…
So we joined Roger (must sort a nick name out..) and Brownie at the BelEnd – Wessex wasn’t too far behind… seemingly still recovering from his Christmas Eve marathon A few of the Green Army had met up in the New Inn – most of us had gone home after a couple of hours…
It was great to see the Waders back in our preferred green and white striped kit and to see MinnieMouser back doing the raffle – offering a ‘strip for a pound’… Fear not, it was Brian Doggett she was offering on behalf of – rumour has it, someone chucked in an extra 10p to stop him stripping…
The 1st half saw the Green Army in fine voice, but sadly the Waders were getting battered by a strong looking Dunstable, Woolfy managed to get himself booked early o and Lee Reed had the only near chance of the half for Waders – Captain Fantastic made a great double act with the newly signed Gavin Hoyte … it was only thanks to our heroic defence that we managed to go in 0-0 at half time.. But we all agreed it was only a matter of time before Dunstable were rewarded and so it happened on 64 minutes.. By now CraigyD was on the field in place of Wolfy, but sadly Boy Wonder did not manage any magic today and Dunstable pushed on for their promised 2nd goal – being rewarded just 7 minutes after the 1st… A late shot came from the substituted Jon Edwards, but to no avail – It all starting to get a bit tatsty toward the end with Beech getting himself cautioned as a result of a rash challenge .. But 2-0 it remained at 90 minutes – in truth, it could have been far worse, but thanks to our back 5 this wasn’t that case
So another defeat for the Waders… Its easy to get despondent, I’m not going to lie – I have been this last month … but lest we forget where we came from and where the Gaffer has taken us. In Nunny we trust, ALWAYS. Things will get better, this isn’t because we got bad – it’s a tough 2ndseason in a tough league and we have been battered with injuries to massively important players – here’s hoping that is all done with now, as Sam is back in training and the others have all started making their way back to match fitness.
Congratulations to MG Lee & Faye on their little bundle of loveliness that is Baby Betty
And who’d of thought after all these years – Captain Fantastic has only gone and proposed to the delightful (and patient) Mrs Fantastic
Brilliant news for 2 fabulous couples; So 2014 hasn’t been all bad after all

InNunnywetrust

Almost forgot to mention the best chant of the game – in the absence of ballboys today – Homer stepped up “The worlds oldest ballboy, your just the worlds oldest ballboy!”.. Don’t think he saw the funny side… We love ya really Homer

That Sinking feeling

13th December 2014
Waders v Redditch 2-5
alcoholic units- 2…
B’s MoM – Lee Reed (spelt right this time!)
Game Rating – 5/10
Ok having struggled for words the last couple of weeks or so, just a short blog:
Not the best day at the office for the Waders today, although it was good to see Lee Reed show some flashes of brilliance resulting in 2 goals for us… Sadly we never recovered from being 3-1 down at half time and despite Bunnyman’s ever optimistic “We’re still in this” after Lee put his 2ndin… the truth was we, were well and truly out of it and Redditch punished us with cruel 5-2 defeat… Fair play to them, they are flying currently – but it’s never good to see the Waders lose especially by a 3 goal margin…
There was an amusing moment today however and not surprisingly it involved the ball ‘boys’ Terry was a paying spectator today in protest at being ‘bossed about’ in a previous match (??? I didn’t ask for details, I only had 90 minutes ) however all was resolved and he sprung back into duty when poor old Scotty managed to hit quick sand when retrieving a ball from the back of the BelEnd Fear not! Terry rescued him …. I think the heroics might have gone to his head though, as at the end of the game as we ‘skulked out’ he had his ladyfriend collecting the flags for him .. I must get Big Al or Bunnyman to give him some ‘Wooing’ tips
Apart from that, oh, and Keith HtH being a bit feisty (and Wessex leaving me to babysit him I won’t forget that ) with Big Al (it’s not Big Al’s fault he supports the same team as your ex Keith???) – it was all abit ‘rubbish’ today and we left feeling pretty flat and still no raffle win
Still positive thoughts… Onwards and upwards
Good Luck to Stuart Farrell who has gone off to find his fortune in Oz – or something like that…

InNunnywetrust

Said it all….

13th December 2014
Waders v Redditch 2-5
alcoholic units- 2… (Stirling spilt the 3rd!)
B’s MoM – Lee Read
Game Rating – 5/10
Struggling for words- give me a couple of days! On a positive, the Green Army were back in force all bar Em who was doing community service at Argos
like I say, struggling for words give me a few days to pick out some positives

YELLOW….

9th Dec 2014
Biggleswade v Chesham 1-3
Alcohol units – 0
B’s Man of the Match – Captain Fantastic Stevie G
Game rating – 7/10
Attendance – 100

Yes you did read that right, no units anywhere tonight, I drove, preferring the warmth and dry to the wine!
Most of us met up at the clubhouse tonight, Bunnyman was already there along with BDK and his mate Chris; Roy wasn’t far behind and chelseaboy just made it – Dan, Em&M followed on joining us in the BelEnd with Roger and his funny fags just before the whistle.. No Bozza tonight , Mattymouser stayed home to torture himself via the redmen and handlebar is still missing in action?? If he’s still missing Saturday I’ll start to ring around the local ‘nicks’… Oh and apparently Wessex failed a late fitness test, so couldn’t make tonight either!
It was a pretty good show from the chesham fans today and the Green Army were certainly, by my reckoning, outnumbered…
As BP Dan was a late arrival Roy had a quick catch up letting him know he’d been caught for speeding the previous day, Poor old Roy… “Yep it was coming through Barton having come off the M11, in a Sneaky place it was” – Hmm I have been going past that speed camera the last 16 years to and from work Roy – its not that hidden ??? It then starts to unravel a bit more, to be fair to Roy (Stirling) his car doesn’t go slow??? BP Dan was clearly enjoying the moral high ground tonight having spent many a long year being lectured on his driving – anyway it turns out this isn’t the 1st time, in fact it’s the 3rd in the last little while and actually his 15th, oh dear oh dear Stirling!!
Both sides started out strongly and as the away side were shooting towards us, there looked to be plenty of action. Our new loanee ‘Johnathan Edwards’ from Peterborough looks to be a good signing and appeared to fit into the team nicely . After about 10 minutes or so, it was clear that no matter how well our defence were doing – and once again Stu Farrell looked strong as a centre half – it was only a matter of time before they broke through, so a credit to Brownie and the lads that it took until 23 minutes in . Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t all in our half I think it was pretty 50/50… In fact for probably the 1st time ever I was praying for the ref not to blow for half time as we were pushing so hard at them; but as is so often the case in life, it wasn’t to be case and so half time saw us 1-0 down.
Back out for the 2nd half in the BelEnd, and once again no raffle winners between us! Again we looked strong and Couls had some lovely crosses in across the goal mouth – but Chesham were to be rewarded a second goal on 56 minutes with a controversial strike that saw Brownie becoming very animated with the ref – this is most unlike him … Of course our vantage point gave nothing away and so we had to wait until we spoke to someone nearer the event – Big Al did this and was ‘reliably’ informed by Deano that the goal was offside and Brownie had absolutely been fouled … Oh dear. To be fair even their goalie came out in support of Brownie! Anyway we did get a consolation 4 minutes later with our new signing scoring his 1st goal for us Big Al and Bunnyman ushered the fateful words that we were still in it and stuff about the next goal sealing it… sadly it went to them on 81 minutes and despite the Waders best efforts, it wasn’t to be tonight – A point would have been a fairer reflection on the game we watched, but that’s football isn’t it. I’m hoping CraigyD is ok, he hobbled off in the 2nd half and it was good to see Andy back albeit on the bench. I thought the defence were cracking tonight – which might sound silly as we conceded 3 goals, but boy were Chesham strong up front and so Brownie, Couls, Farrell, Connor and Gents had to be at their very best and in my opinion they were – MoM was a hard call between them all, So it went to my favourite Captain .
Oh and before the disgraced Stirling sloped off early (apparently it would take so much longer to get home driving sooo slowly) – he did also innocently ask Big Al “Is that a boy or a girl on your phone?”… Now I love Stirling to pieces but imagine my shame and everyone else’s amusment to find out it’s a picture of me in shorts and top on holiday!!! (Not sure why he though Big Al might have said picture of a boy on his phone? ) – now had it of been a topless shot I could understand the confusion , but really?? So I don’t think it’s your car Stirling – you’re clearly not looking properly… Lets just hope it wasn’t a WPC that stopped you .Don’t worry Stirling, I didn’t cry myself to sleep for too long…
As Roger said when walking away, yellow isn’t our colour on a Tuesday night, forget ‘black Friday’ or ‘orange Wednesday’… Yellow Tuesday
Redditch Saturday – Rain dependant methinks!

Waders

GetwellsoonSam,Kelvin

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

When the red,red robin goes bob, bob bobbing along

6th Dec 2014
Biggleswade v Bideford 3-0
Alcohol units – 2… (Thanks Nunny!)
B’s Man of the Match – Craigy D
Game rating – 7/10
Attendance – 125
A bit of Xmas shopping was in order before Big Al and I set sail for today’s Match against the robins – Shopping, survived (Just!) meant a well-earned drink in the New Inn as a reward As we sat waiting for Bunnyman & Matty Mouser to arrive; Michelle from behind the bar asked if we were going to the football (guessing the scarves, flag bag and green attire were a give away ) as there was gentleman who was asking where the ground was – she pointed us out to him and so we met Scotch Robin (Richard from Edinburgh – originally Bideford) who had started his journey down at 6.30am … He even got offered a lift to the ground by one of the New Inn regulars – makes you feel proud to be from the Wade! We were soon joined by Bunnyman and Matty mouser – Sadly Chelseaboy was unable to make today as he’d been commandeered into being taxi driver for his mother in law We took a slow walk down to Langford road with Scotch Robin in tow – now he might of just been, being polite, but it turns out he knew of some of Big Al’s relatives down Bideford way?? How small a world? Talking of all things amazing… Homer had found the key to the pedestrian gate and yes, no more trademans entrances for us!!!!
In the clubhouse the usual suspects were waiting; Bozza in charge of the club merchandise and Roy waiting for Dan , who wasn’t far behind…. Em & M arrived with minutes to spare – although enough to neck a swift one ! and BDK managed to extort a fiver from Matty mouser for his Sober October. No handlebar again today? I’m guessing he is either grounded or has been arrested following one of his notorious karaoke sessions . Wessex was also in attendance sans Keith, who wasn’t getting into Biggleswade until 5pm for a curry night at the whistle?
It was pretty cold and so as in previous weeks, it was the BelEnd all the way for us – although on seeing us, Brownie moved to the other end!!
Waders started cautiously – unlike our choir , who went for it right from the whistle! – as did the robins but it was only a matter of time before boy Wonder CraigyD scored on the back of a Josh Beech pass… I didn’t think the Robins ever really looked in it, bar one try on goal in the last 10 minutes of the 1st half – and despite or best efforts, half time saw us at 1-0. Me and Big Al had walked down to get a burger and get the drinks in courtesy of Nunny , stopping for a quick chat with Cam and Andy on the way… I love how Cam is the most mild mannered and thoughtful lad right up until he gets onto the pitch ! Scotch Robin was treated to another pint on half time and quite right too – what dedication to the cause!!
Back up the BelEnd for the 2nd half and another week with no raffle winners … Still we sang our hearts out and Stuart Farrell responded with his 1st goal in a Waders shirt 11 minutes into the half, from a corner!! Well done Stu! Lee Reed replaced the newly engaged, but injured Bossman a bit further on into the half and Waders continued to dominate a pretty submissive Robins side; On 79 minutes CraigyD put on his magic 30 yard display yet again!!!!
It’s a funny old game, Bideford beat the 3rd placed Corby last week, so none of us were expecting a 3 goal win today; but then Hitchin took out league leaders Poole 1-0 today, Paulton Rovers v Arlesey finished 6-2 and look at St. Neots winning 6-5 against Dorchester – and to think Dorchester had been 5-4 up… You really never know in this league!
But it was great to get the 3 points – and a much nicer walk home today
On the way home Matty Mouser treated us (me, Big Al and Bunnyman) to a drink at Stratton, we were then joined by Wessex, as Keith had managed to miss his train – well according to Keith the train went without him … Not to worry he was on the next one and also joined the Waders Xmas party… We didn’t hang about, Strictly was calling Big Al – although he was asleep 1 dance in
Chesham UTD Tuesday – Hoping to see a full house

Waders

GetwellsoonSam,Andy,Kelvin

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

Dark news…

2nd Dec 2014
Biggleswade v Hitchin 7-3 (yep you read that right..)
Alcohol units – 1… (I’m not explaining this again Bunnyman!)
B’s Man of the Match –
Game rating – 1/10 (I’m sure Hitchin thought differently)
Attendance – 190
Ok, how do I go about this blog?? Well on a positive I survived Sunday with WaderChick – although Xmas shopping ought to come with a health warning! I met up with Big Al in the New Inn on the way home and Soulman spotted us, he stopped for a brief chat – it was good to see him and he assures us that he will be returning to the fold with his trusted flag in the near future…
It was the New Inn for us again tonight on the way to the mighty Langford road on this punishingly cold night , so a bit of food was in order to set us up for the match; Bunnyman and Mattymouser joined us soon after having gone for the burger option at Georges hall. It seemed a while since we’d met up, although it was only Saturday that we all missed.. Bunnyman had been in the loft (I suspect an Xmas tree was involved) and found some old copies of SHOOT that he brought for Big Al to have a gander at; 1985!! With about an hour to spare we made our way – and yes, had to traipse through puddles and navigate traffic as it would appear the pedestrian gate key has still not been found – At this rate Big Al is running out of clean trainers!!
Bozza and ChrisB were busy behind their stall, Roy was waiting for Dan and confessd to watching St. Neots last Saturday …. Chelseaboy came in quite late for him, but then he explained that he was taxi driver tonight and so would also be leaving early (to think I commiserated him on this?? )
BDK was back and struggling with jetlag – well if he will be an international jet setting man of mystery and kitchens, then these things are to be expected ! All the same, despite him admitting to being a tad grumpy that day, it was a delight to see him back; I dread to think how grumpy he was, come 10pm….
As it was cold and wet, it was the BelEnd all the way for us today – and as I’ve said before, it’s nice to make Brownie feel loved and offer Roger some company ; That the Green Army for you, all heart!
The Flag was nightmare to get tied to tonight – I love how all the male Green Army were offering advice and passing judgement on my flag tying skills all of course from the relative warmth and comfort of the stand … Wheres Em when I need her? (Struggling to get parked with M, by all accounts the car park was stacked)
It was sad to see Donners come out dressed in yellow – it really isn’t your colour Donners ; Green and white shows off your rugged good looks so much better….
So there’s no getting away from it, the match ; We didn’t make a good start and I’m afraid Hitchin did (So much for us being favourites) On on around 16 minutes, right in front of us, Cam caught the ball and in trying to control it, seemed to hand it to NattyP who poked it straight in the back of the net – oh dear Of all the players – NattyP!.. Just a minute later saw Hitchin smack a 30 yarder straight through Brownies hands – This is just not something we are used to seeing from Waders no.1 So of course it should have been no surprise that on 20 minutes Waders Legend Donners took the score to 3-0 (Why couldn’t he have been wearing green???)
Oh dear oh dear this could be embarrassing a 3 goal deficit is the worst I have seen since watching the Waders (Stour & so recently Histon) – 3 goals down in 20 minutes and the Waders looking decidedly out of the game, this could be a new record? We got a slight reprieve when awarded a penalty (of course we were far too far away to see whether this was right or wrong) and Kelvin stepped up to the spot making it 3-1. “The next goal wins this” says Big Al…. Yep, it had to be NattyP again didn’t it when he was allowed to run all the from his own half, before crossing it and then coming in to take the glory.. Ouch! Sam Ives took it to 4-2 for Half time and Bunnyman was still optimistic at this point… I wasn’t
Back out for the 2nd half, none of us won the raffle and roger was nervously getting through his funny ‘cupcake’ fags … We thought there might have been some changes made, having seen Nunny’s face like thunder at the half time whistle – but it was the same team & same lacklustre start .. The only light being provided by MG Lee on 50 minutes 4-3, ok we could still be in this??
2 minutes later and Hitchin were all over us again and after a few attempts to clear it they stuck a 5th in. I could barely watch anymore… But watch I did and saw Brownie beaten again on 65 minutes and then flippin NattyP collect his hat trick on 85 minutes… By the end of the match the flag was down and me and Big Al were waiting by burger van end to make our escape; wet, cold and fed up – Chelseaboy had the right idea tonight…
What to say?? It was the worst I’ve personally seen us play and it took me back to the Stourbridge FA cup game It’s not about the losing, it was the manner in which we lost; We didn’t give good representation of the club I know and love, and to do that against Hitchin and the returning Donners – so disappointing
Hitchin’s no.7 was a class act tonight – he ran us ragged! Not such a class act was their ‘supporter’ who came past us before we’d kicked off saying that we’d left the N and the K out of our Waders chant… To be honest I thought he was a bit of a nob who can’t spell (and old enough to know better) – however on reflection that actually makes ‘Dark News’… So perhaps he was just sharing a premonition for the match… Spooky!
Onwards and upwards – but come on lads, we are better than that.
Bideford on Saturday at the mighty Langford Road – You can do this!

Waders

GetwellsoonSam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

Confessions of….

22nd Nov 2014
Biggleswade v Hungerford Town 1-1
Alcohol units – 2…
B’s Man of the Match – Connor Roberts
Game rating – 5/10
Attendance – 131
Despite it being a wet and miserable day requiring a morning pitch inspection, the game was still on, Phew! I was so looking forward to, today’s, match as it would be the pretty much a full house for the green Army By way of celebration (some might say any excuse ) Big Al and I met up with Bunnyman, Matty Mouser and Chelseaboy (who wasn’t happy to have contracted my WaderFlu ) in the New Inn – for a couple… It was good to see another Wader in there today as well (all the way from Plymouth I kid you not!)!
It was fairly ‘sober walk to Langford road,although Matty mouser and I kept well ahead of the rest; Not least, when they started naming 70’s porn stars???? I might be being a bit naïve here, but seriously who know’s these things? I still cannot believe the look of disbelief on their faces when, on hearing the name Ben Dover, I just looked blankly back at them all…. Apparently he’s a ’film star’ and his son is the older kid in the program outnumbered?? – I have since looked this up and it would seem my fellow comrades were not pulling my leg at all Thank God, I didn’t look him up on the work’s PC I might like to add
BDK is still at sea, although I suspect by the time this blog hits the internet he’ll be well and truly home! It’ll be good to have the old seadog back
Bozza was in attendance, with ChrisB and Toddy; It was great to see Dan return with his Dad in tow … Em&M made it in time for a swift one (and it was swift Em! ) followed closely by Handlebar – I make that pretty much a full house?
Despite kicking toward the burger van end, we decided to keep Brownie company and set up camp in the BelEnd… I’m sure this was a big boost to him
Within 10 minutes Kelvin Bossman had scored his 10th goal in as many games! And the Waders were looking strong – albeit, CraigyD was on the bench and Twinny was still out. Greg and Connor worked well together and so I’m happy that Connor’s loan is extended to January Sadly, as seems to be the case with us so often this season we started to lose some ‘control and so it wasn’t really any surprise when Hungerford were awarded and scored a penalty just before the half time whistle!
I made my way swiftly out for the 2nd half, but a full bladder (at my age ) meant a hurried discreet walk back to the clubhouse (it’s alright for you blokes )… with the Green Army all wondering “why didn’t she go at half time”… Big Al did tell me later that rumour was we’d had a big row – I wish! Anyway I decided to play it cool returning to the fold and so, stopped to have a look at the BelEnd from a different vantage point; I also spotted Twinny and went to have a chat with him, he is sadly out for another couple of weeks!!
Still playing it cool, I tried to quietly make my way back to the BelEnd, not the easiest when you have Colin and Noisy boys to walk past.. and chants of “It’s nice to know you’re here!” from the BelEnd I was presented with some cadbury’s heroes from Em – I kid you not, M won the raffle again!! And Big Al managed to win a small box of jelly babies …I would say Hungerford had the better of us for most of the 2nd half (that I saw) although we did come close thanks to Sam Ives. However, we were very much on the back foot and that was pretty much the second half; I wasn’t sorry to hear the whistle after a desperate last minute scramble from Hungerford, that saw our awesome defence thwart the crusaders every last attempt. It was two points lost, but a fair result that could have so easily gone the other way…
We are playing Hitchin Town Tuesday 2nd December and so will be welcoming back the legend that is, Brett Donnelly (I’d so hoped we’d be welcoming him back as a player ). I will try my best to make this meeting – although I cannot guarantee it, as Waderchick is insisting I go ice skating with her this Sunday and I’m no Jane Torvill – more Eddie the eagle… (and I can’t believe Big Al asked if my will is up-to-date on hearing this! )

Waders

GetwellsoonSam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

Return of the King….

18th Nov 2014
Biggleswade v Dunstable 2-1 (RED INSURE CUP SECOND ROUND)
Alcohol units – 1
B’s Man of the Match – Mark Coulson
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 70
Despite my WaderBird Flu I soldiered on and made my way to the Waders tonight – in truth I couldn’t face missing Captain Fantastic’s 1st game back in 10 weeks .. and then having to hear Big Al’s catch up with the Green Army minus me
We went straight to Langford road and were not surprised to be so few in number – in fact at one point it was just us and Bozza… Things were so desperate we enrolled BigDaveG (BDG) into the ranks for the night He had already sampled the delights of The New Inn and so no initiation ceremony was required ! Em&M soon joined us but that was to be the Green Army tonight although Wessex did appear from nowhere to make us 6 and a loanee…
After a shakey start that saw the ref pull up and have to be replaced… Is it something about Langford road and injuries???
Waders started ok and it was so good to see Captain fantastic back where he belongs – an early goal from Kelvin Bossman gave us the lead within 7 minutes 9 goals in 9 games, not a bad start Kelvin I’ll be honest I think we were lucky to still be in the lead at half time as Dunstable put on plenty of pressure.
Back in the bar England had just taken the lead, I’d much rather see the Waders win!
2nd Half in the Bel End, with a nice reminder that it used to be called Sewage end – thank God for my Flu!!!
Dunstable continued to press us and had the lion’s share of possession. A couple of moves stood out for me; Couls’s fantastic run and cross to Kelvin, that sadly Bossman couldn’t finish and then on 76 minutes like de ja vu the superb move from Couls again , this time to MG Lee Allinson who cooly finished the job taking us to 2-0 .. Game over?? Oh no, just 2 minutes later Dunstable scored that threatened goal – Me and Bozza prepared ourselves for the worst!! However, Lady luck was on our side tonight and we held on to go through to the next round! Gents, Cam, Couls and Connor were outstanding tonight
M won the raffle again! I wonder how long the shortbread will last this time? The last lot didn’t make 12 hours..
A Big thank-you to Em, who gave this poorly WaderBird and Big Al a lift home tonight – much appreciated x
Glad to hear that Twinny is fit again – Can’t wait to see him back in the squad Just Sam to go now – and it was good to see him walking about tonight

Waders

GetwellsoonSam,Ref

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!
Hoping to see a full Green Army on Saturday 22nd for Hungerford “Green Army!!”

Double Trouble…

15th Nov 2014
Biggleswade v Poole Town 1-2 (FA Trophy 2nd Qualifying Rd)
Alcohol units – 3
B’s Man of the Match – Mark Coulson
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 170
Big Al and I made our way straight to the ground today (on account of having DJ with us – nice burgers! ). No BP Dan or Roy today, Treff TAH wasn’t in attendance either… BDK was I’m assuming still cruising and so it was left to Chelseaboy, Bunnyman, Matty mouser, Bozza, ChrisB, Em&M, not forgetting handlebar to make up todays Green Army ‘choir’ Handlebar was recovering from his recent knee op and being the ‘old fashioned’ double hard football player – he barely mentioned it … John of Wessex was without HtH today as sadly Keith had been grounded by his daughter – I didn’t ask and I dread to think…
Quite a few Poole supporters turned up, sadly our mate Chappo wasn’t amongst them.
We set up stall burger van end but the low sun meant a swift move to behind the goal where Terry has assured us the vantage point was better – it wasn’t!
It was great to see the Waders legend that is Paul Barnes come to watch us, with his lovely wife , son and twin boys in tow! I kept my distance as I don’t think any of them would have been pleased to get my WaderFlu.
The 1st half saw us go 1 up thanks to Kelvin Bossman, after a superb cross from the new loanee Greg and the Waders were looking pretty strong with the defence being a tight as ever. CraigyD looked on fire playing on the left , and Mark Coulson after his injury layoff last season just gets better and better (not sure about the hair?). Just as the rain started to fall we made a sprint for the bar at half time… and it was great to have all of the green Army together again.
A quick jog (well ok, bimble) to the Bel End saw us safe and dry and able to make some proper noise! And we did make some noise, sadly the tables seemed to have turned and Poole were now much the stronger side – it was only a matter of time. Poole got a penalty (Here we go) but the fabulous Brownie got us out of jail…
On the subject of Brownie – I was very amused to hear that their supporters told him off for swearing, lol
Not for long however as on 59 minutes they were 2-1 up having scored twice in 3 minutes – Ouch!!
The game all got a bit scrappy towards the end with us getting a red card (McNulty) and a few yellows being handed out too – their goalie was keen to get involved and got stuck in after 40 yard run??? Big Al was no innocent during this time and in response to the Poole supporters chant of “We’re gonna win 5-1” he had to be restrained by Bunnyman for using the F word (and we’re not talk flippin – as was the preferred Dolphins swear word ). On the whistle the their goalie decided to give us some stick – take a leaf out of Brownies book mate, you can’t buy class!
Sadly that’s how it finished, despite a few chances at the end – No Wembley for us this year!! So for the second time this season Poole have beaten us; I did however come away proud of our performance and a draw would have been fairer, but time to concentrate on the league (oh and that red insure cup thingy…)

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Sam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

One for sorrow, TWO for joy…

8th Nov 2014
Dorchester Town v Biggleswade 1-0
Alcohol units – 5….
B’s Man of the Match – Stuart Farrell
Game rating – 6/10
Attendance – 265
A 9.30 start for us today with strict instructions from Homer that we needed to be at Langford road for 9.15… and so we arrived to find only 2 other Green Army members in the form of Chelseaboy & Roger; with rain forecast to fall all day down the south, a pitch inspection was happening at that very moment … So for once it was to be the Waders keeping Cozy’s (the coach company) waiting …The prospect of a Tuesday night rearranged fixture was not something anyone wanted, so it was with some relief we all boarded the coach on Mo’s instruction that the game was on!
It was to be a quiet journey with the lack of Nunny and liquid refreshments.. Nunny was making his own way down following an evening in Birmingham and watching the fabulous John Bishop. As for the other bit, all I’ll say is, look what happens when me and Big Al don’t travel to an away game #Brentwood #Coachseat
With so few of us travelling we were able to spread out nicely, thus saving me from Big Al’s anorak commentaries… Stuart Farrell sat behind Big Al, clearly a secret anorak as well as the only other Spurs fan on the coach… Lee Reed sat behind me, so he could quietly contemplate the coming match, oh and borrow my handcream (no one likes dry skin, boys! )
The quick stop at Fleet to take on some supplies and pick up Bossman, saw us meet up with the Wingate & Finchley team (who we knocked out the FA cup a couple of years back)… There were also a few Hens’ collecting refreshemnts at the services, much to the delight of a few of the lads…Personally speaking 80’s fluorescent lycra is not the most flattering of outfits to pull off – I give you ‘Mr Motivator’..
The rain was really hammering down when we were about an hour away and you had to wonder if we were going to get all the way there, for it to be called off (as happened and Poole / Burham )… When we arrived we saw the poshest Tesco’s EVER (Really?) I am reliably informed (I am married to an anorak remember) that Prince Charles had a hand in designing it and the Dorchester ground – ok that explains the fountains etc
Desperately trying to dodge the rain, we bought our tickets and entered the surprisingly small clubhouse. The bar staff and everyone were really friendly and not for the 1st time that afternoon we were asked where Biggleswade is, Roger did the honours. Free WiFi was a really nice touch (not that it was any good to my phone that was now on 10% charge.. I was surprised that the clubhouse never really got that busy, I was also keeping my eye on the largest cobweb ever near the door, hoping that its owner wasn’t home
We had a few reasonably priced drinks (Thanks Roger & Chelseaboy) and then made our way out to the ground having got our hands stamped 1st. We took cover under the far side stand and it gave a brilliant view of the impressive main stand
The match was hard going as the pitch was soaking and the rain pouring, but on 34 minutes we scored and I am assured it was actually Lee Reed and not Bossman who tucked the goal away … The Waders always looked comfortable and Dorchester were never really a threat. The Waders back 4, in Coulson, Connor, Cam and Farrell were superb today, ‘solid’ and so no expletives from Brownie (that I could hear) – any one of them could have been MoM, but for me Farrell just edged it … I think he should seriously think about defence as his new position however much he enjoys the fruits of being a striker .. Another goal was not to come despite MG Lee running the Midfield. So on 90 soggy minutes we had taken another 3 points from the magpies…
Back in the clubhouse, we had a brief catch up with Nunny and Coach Duggan, before we had to set sail for home..
Oh and the goal, Big Al spoke to Lee asking who had scored the goal out of him & Kelvin (we were all sure it was Bossman???) “It was definitely me” Lee said before sarkily adding “It’s hard to tell us apart” Oops, that told Big Al.. Although I notice that even the league website is denying him his moment of glory..
A quiet journey home, I slept most of it and then then a quick ride into town in the Mo mobile (much more up market than my Wadermobile) – where else, but the fabulous non-league, would your club chairman being offering you a lift?? Gotta love the Waders!
I was disappointed today when Big Al read out some Dorchester Town forum comments from the match “Another loss to another shit team, that no-one’s ever heard of” A big thank-you to the Weymouth fan who replied “If they were shit, how come you lost to them?”
I know it’s only a couple of people, but how disrespectful?? We might be a small club from a small town, but we’ve earned our place in this league thanks to Maurice, Nunny and the players. How many times do we have to beat you, before we’re afforded the respect we deserve?? And as for our side being shit, injury ridden yes, shit NEVER.

Waders

GetwellsoonGents,Sam,Andy

InNunnywetrust

COME ON YOU WADERS!

The Hunger Game… Part 2

Biggleswade town fc v Cirencester Town 1-0
4th April 2015
Alcoholic units- 2 (that I remember…)
B’s MoM – Mark Coulson
Game Rating – 5/10
Attendance – 129
2 massively important games in 48 hours await us this Easter holiday… and today was the 1st of them against a side battling for a playoff place and with a superb away record (2nd best in our league) – nothing for us to be concerned about then… It’s fair to say I woke up with that familiar knot in my stomach, you know the one containing a heady mixture of excitement, dread, anxious for a win but nervous for a humiliation – the stuff of FA cup days; only in this instance this is about us fighting for survival in this league we have all enjoyed so much. Big Al had sadly woken up with what is turning out to be a bad case of the dreaded ‘Man Flu’ . It wouldn’t be the New Inn for us today as we’d got DJ in tow (by all accounts his teachers do know when he has been to the football with Dad of a weekend… ) but the need for a calming drink or 3 meant a pre-match drink in the Conny club for us – it’s not my favourite place in the world on account of the appalling décor (recently redecorated to the style of a 1970’s old people home ) and its lacking in any kind of ambience despite Ant and Ange’s best efforts, but the drink is cheap and Ange makes a decent plate of food, that Big Al and DJ decided to partake in , I would wait and treat myself to a burger later if hungry, (having just seen the picture posted of Bunnyman and Matty mouser’s all day breakfast in the New Inn) Another reason not to frequent the club so much these days is that the Landlord is a St. Neots town fan and yes he was quick to came and have a chat with me (although he actually had no clue as to how well his team are currently doing ). So 2 bottles of wine, 2 pints of blackcurrant and 2 sausage sarnies later we set off for the mighty Langford road, with the flag safe and secure after its short stay at the New Inn in the week
On arrival at the car park it was good to see the pedestrian gate open – not least because the driveway was resembling a large pond. Turnstile duties had fallen to Homer today and I’m pleased to report he has got the hang of it, so no bruised shins for me today . We were pretty much the last ones in today (not counting Em, who was again coming straight from work today) and so joined Chelseaboy, Bunnyman, Matty mouser and M to the tunes of “Lalalalalala lalala Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadersssss” clearly our self-medication was starting to kick in, and the nerves were well and truly calmed… In fact I even had a cheeky bet on the Waders to win (£10, which I kept secret from Big Al who likes a bet but it always has to be each way and NEVER more than 20p… ) It was good to see Tref back in the fold… he is clearly getting warmed up fro Monday…
As with Tuesday there were to be no burgers – so it’s a good job a few of the Green Army had already had their fill… In fact Burger van end was no more – following the robbery BV Mick had been and uprooted his culinary caravan… So it would be a rush on crisps today (I had my eye on the last packet of cheese and onion –but I’d wait until half time). We set up camp at Burgervan (less) end, M insisting that this had held more luck for us in recent times and we all know what superstitious lot football fans are, and none of us were willing to jinx his wise words… Bozza shut up shop to join us and Sideshowbob made a surprise visit (he had planned to go to Slough with the blues but unexpected events of the day had meant his only football option of the day was the Waders of which he is a secret fan, having spent his 1st 28 years living here and his dad playing for them in the 60’s).
The starting line-up included Stuart Farrell up front, and the rest of the squad fairly unchanged with a strong Waders attitude on display ; Twinny remained on the bench and CraigyD was still out injured. To be honest, this wasn’t a classic Waders game, perhaps there was just too much at stake? However on 21 minutes following a brilliant free kick from Mark Coulson our newish signing Burnett fired home From then on it was a game of few chances but 1-0 at half time was a certain relief… I went in to get the half time drinks (with the Waders kitty from the previous Saturdays score predictor win) and Crowie being the barman extraordinaire that he is, already had them lined up – Chelseaboy was on the Larger?? I paid up and was going to get my longed for crisps… but Sideshowbob had beaten me to it….Looks like I would go hungry today (should of had the Sandwich)
It was the BelEnd for us in the 2nd half, joining Dodger (who had his own very poignant reason for wanting a win today ) and it was a half that held few chances for either side, although Tony Burnett went close on about 65 minutes. Twinny came on five minutes later replace the aforementioned Burnett – it was great to see him back on the field of play having struggled this season with injury. There was a slight scare when Brownie decided to practice his juggling skills – but those hands are just made for catching the ball, not clowing about, and so he did secure his catch, much to everyone’s relief . I spent the last 10 minutes at the other end of the pitch hiding behind some of the Noisey boys, too scared to watch, that nervous knot having returned to taunt me – The BelEnd did sound magnificent though!! I cannot tell you how good it felt when that whistle went – If you were there then you know that feeling not quite winning the FA cup… but close! We hung around to clap the boys off the pitch and I even got a big fat hug from Twinny
So we have moved up to 19th with Frome slipping just below us on 38 points having lost to Hitchin, St.Neots chucked away a 3-0 lead drawing 3-3 away to Slough and more importantly to some of us (In particular Tref the Armadillo hunter ) Arlesley lost at home to Hungerford.. Don’t get me wrong it’s still all to play for, but it is very much in our hands…
“We love you Waders, we do. We love you Waders, we do. Oohhh Waders we love you!”

The Geen Army we reconvene Monday Pre Match in the New Inn to discuss tactics and ensure Chelseaboy gets a decent pint(s)
Loved it today – absolutely loved it! The boys were hungry for it and it showed (Oh and I won £36… not bad)

InNunnywetrust

LettherealWadersstandup

Never Give Up….

Biggleswade town fc v Arlesley 0-1
6th April 2015
Alcoholic units- 2
B’s MoM –
Game Rating – 2/10
Attendance – 207
So for the 2nd of 2 massively important games in 48 hours this Easter holiday…
The New Inn was the meeting place for the green Army; Bunnyman and Mattymouser were there 1st and Chelseaboy arrived soon after having been shopping for mobility scooters of all things … Now I’m not being wise after the event, but today didn’t bode well for me, not least because Big AL’s man flu was threatening his attendance at today’s game but also having played so well the previous game, were we to plummet in form today like we have in the last few games – Yin and Yang 1 good performance followed by a bad one and so on ..? Anyhow not everyone shared my pessimism and so a few drinks were had before we made our way down to Langford road on this gorgeous sunny day … On arrival, the club was pretty busy, BDK was back aboard, ChrisB’s mate Toddy made another appearance, Em brought along one of her friends and Wessex brought Keith HtH along with him and of course Stirling brought along BP Dan… With the burger van having done a runner, it was Homer’s long suffering ‘Julie’ who was on hot drink and bacon butties’ duty – I snuck a bite of Big Al’s – very nice to! We stuck with the tradition of the last game and set up camp at burgervanless end… Tref the armadillo hunter joined us, he was particularly psyched up for today’s game, not being the biggest fan of the away team … I popped to join Wessex and Keith HtH behind the goal so I could get some photo’s, but there is only so much you can take of Sandy’s very own Alf Garnett and so I headed back to join the ranks … It was good to see Carol and Gordy pay us a visit today – and how could forget Soulman who popped in at half time for a quick catch up with us all.
I wasn’t impressed by the team sheet, it was almost a complete change to Saturday; It turns out it wasn’t only Big Al suffering with fitness today and so from what I can gather Nunny had a real struggle to find 11 players … What do I say about the game?, not a lot really we never really looked in it, we ended up playing against 10 men and we were a goal down on 66 minutes … and so, just 4 points separate us and Arlesley again – both clubs having just 3 games left to play… I can see this going right to the wire and the game on 25th against Weymouth being massive for both clubs as Weymouth teeter precariously in 5th place…
As much as it grieves me to say it – well played to Arlesley who never gave up despite playing with 10 men for most of the game… As a wader thats the sort of spirit we admire – and in truth I’d rather us both stay up (local derbys and all that), so who know maybe Frome will slip up??
Big Al is desperate to go to Bideford – but despite Dodgers best efforts of bribes with jelly babies, I don’t think we’ll make it (well I won’t), not sure about Redditch as it’s a ‘DJ weekend’ and so its looks to be an 18 day football break for me and then probably the most important game in a long while
There seems to be some funny old results in the league of late, another 3-3 draw for St.Neots who are battling for a playoff place and Poole losing at Dorchester (who we did the double over??)…

InNunnywetrust

LettherealWadersstandup

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“Donners going to Wembley la la la la!”

“Donners going to Wembley la la la la!”

28th September 2013

Waders v Chelmsford 2-0

B’s MoM – Cam Mawer

Attendance – 329 (??)

Game rating – 10 / 10 👏👏

Alcoholic units – 5 (including post match celebrations J)

What a game!!! For me this was my 2nd favourite match ever. The green army were out in force; Big Al, Bunnyman, Chelsea boy, TC, Matty Mouser, Soulman & his brand new flag (nothing wrong with lime!) and Tref having escaped the French!

Tottenham Tim was back in his rightful place, not sure that applies to Big Dave K who was trying his luck as a barman; the club was heaving (I’m struggling to believe 329 in attendance – it certainly felt more like 450). Dave the Rave also asked for a mention this week but as I don’ t do requests NO, lol.

We also had another in the green army ranks today – Big Al’s 17 year old autistic son Daniel, it could have gone one of 2 ways; luckily for us he loved it, probably more the swearing & chanting – Al could be in trouble with the ex….

As a fan you really cannot ask anymore of your team than they give 100% – the current squad (and last season to be fair) have not failed to deliver on that score in fact they deliver buckets of commitment!

The game started slowly for us, but 10 / 15 minutes in we grew in confidence and it was just a matter of time before we scored – thank you Craig Daniel, what a beauty fired in from the edge of the area! MG Lee and Callum were running the middle of the park with the wide boys running the fullbacks ragged. Max ‘Rory’ York headed in our 2nd from an MG Lee free kick – we later heard that it was his Quiff not head and so Max York takes Luke Knights ‘The hair’ crown!

At half time time I have to say I was pretty upset to hear the abuse the Chelmsford players took from some of the their own supporters? Hardly the way to inspire your team?? I have to say the Chelmsford supporters were a great bunch and I’m sure the majority would share my feelings. Scotty was about in the clubhouse at half time and came over for a chat – I should have asked him to bring the drum around.

The green army took residence at the other end of the pitch for the 2nd half sandwiched between Craig, Sam & Lee’s respective parents – Bunnyman was on top form and lead the chants “Wolfy give us a wave” “GREEN ARMY” “Donner’s going to Wembley”… The album will be out around Xmas time.

Nunny won the score prediction at 2-0! Not bad after 5 out of 7 winners at Newmarket Thursday – Midas touch.

We had afters and it was good to have a quick catch up with Captain fantastic, Nunny and Donner’s – all such great chaps.

Sorry to say goodbye to Luke Knight and Killer – all the best to a great couple of lads.

Arlesey away Tuesday night – Let’s hope the green army can make it, we’ll be there!

Once again thanks to Nunny’s boys for making me such a proud Wader and to the Green army (Led by Bunnyman) for making the afternoon the stuff of dreams!