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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 25

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 25: Last week, the Old Toffee team retreated to the drawing room fireside to discuss who would be taking on the managerial challenge at the Lamex. One name, it seemed, rose above the rest during the discussion. And that was a certain Graham …

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The end of a long four-day Easter weekend is always a tough one to bear – and the trudge into work this morning was a slow, weary one

That Was Easter…

The end of a long four-day Easter weekend is always a tough one to bear. Like a holiday you aren’t ready to come back from, the trudge into work this morning was a weary one. Whether you had a quiet one or a busy one, it was certainly wasn’t the …

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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 24

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 24: It’s time for another Old Toffee and still no sign of a new manager being appointed, either our Graham or otherwise. Plenty of speculation to discuss and an away defeat at Tranmere Rovers to digest, with the regular trio of host Steve …

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Tranmere: A Retrospective

Right then, did the 3-1 scoreline really tell the full story of our Tranmere adventure on Sunday? For us, we have to disagree with Ronnie Moore’s assertion that the home side “deserved” the victory. Now, we’re obviously going to a little biased here but were they even the better side …

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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 23

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 23: In what has been a quiet few days at Stevenage Football Club, the ALOOT team have little to talk about in this episode… OK, so who are we kidding. A great win against Sheffield United, an awful loss at Bury and a …

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Goodbye Gary

A bolt from the blue this Wednesday lunchtime? Or was it pretty much nailed on after last night’s tame defeat at Bury? Either way you look at it, Gary Smith’s era at the Boro’ is now at an end. It’ll probably go down as “mutual consent” reading the club’s statement, …

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The Bury Bluster…

Right, we know how this one should go. After trashing a team very much in the hunt for an automatic bump up into the Championship, we take flight and head up north to a team for whom the Who’s Who Of League Two should already be back in the bookcase. …

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St Hattrick’s Day

If we’re being honest, we didn’t see that coming. After starting a post-mortem of Ireland’s latest attempt to play that egg chasing malarkey with less than the proper number of men on the field, the texts and tweets started rolling in. “Dani Lopez has scored again” – that is one …

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What Became Of The Likely Lads

Please don’t get us wrong, See we’ll forgive you with a song we’ll call the Likely Lads. But if it’s left to you, We know exactly what you’d do with all the dreams we had… ‘Cause blood runs thicker, Oh, we’re big-strong-and-physical, you know; If it’s important to you, it’s …

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A Load Of Old Toffee (2020)

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 22

A Load Of Old Toffee – Episode 22: A disappointing couple of matches for the Boro’ have given the ALOOT team plenty to digest in this episode! Dean Thompson and Mark Hollis once again sit at the right (and left) hand of Pope Steve Watkins I. Meanwhile, Ken Jude is …

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