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It’s All About Crewe

A midweek league fixture? Well, this is a welcome treat in a season where our League One business has been exclusively done on Saturdays so far. That weekend business isn’t quite paying out in points just yet, so we may as well start moonlighting on Tuesday nights – we haven’t …

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Movin’ On Up

Have we turned the corner? Is the Destiny Train back on the right track? We are no more than 24 hours from finding out. We travel to Walsall this weekend for the chance to make it three wins in three games and continue the momentum built up with our victories …

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Taken Off The Christmas Card List?

Let’s be honest, it’s not going to come as much of a surprise to learn that Graham Westley has saved on the cost of a postage stamp this Christmas and decided not to pass on any of his season’s greetings to Karl Robinson. That might have been your opinion already, …

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Do The Zoko-Motion

“Everybody’s doing the brand new dance now; come on baby, do the Zoko-Motion” – The motion we’re talking about is the one where you stick out a foot, a head or a bum and make the ball go into the goal. Football is a sport that seems so simple when …

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Signs. Of A Positive Nature.

It is understandable that our league form this season may have been prematurely pushing some of our Worry-o-Meters into that horrible looking red zone labelled “PANIC”. But the second half of the second half of the game against Coventry City (you still with us? Good…) makes us think that the …

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It’s Not How You Start…

… it is how you finish. We’re told this often enough during our football club-supporting lives and it often gets proved to be the case when you take into consideration the full length of a season. It is easy to peer at our league results this season and feel inclined …

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All Over Bar The Shouting

There she goes. Leaving on the 16.42 from Waterloo for the evening White Star steamer to the New World. It has been an emotional, enthralling few months where moments of utter joy had been entwined in frustration and, at times, despair. But now she is leaving your life for the …

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The End Is Nigh

It’s not quite your four-minute warning, but now is the time to start thinking about how to Protect and Survive as the end is nearly upon us. The only thing between us, three-and-a-half-months without football and Boro’ withdrawal symptoms is today’s showdown at the Lamex Stadium against The Best Team …

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The Final Straight

According to every English Literature student’s favourite poet TS Eliot, April is very much considered to be the cruellest month. To be honest, we can’t help chortling at the fact that TS Eliot is an anagram of “toilets”, but he could have been onto something with this April malarkey. For …

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We Were Right. And Wrong.

In some parts, we were right. And in others, we were wrong. It was as much a mixed bag as you could’ve expected from last night’s games in the three Football League divisions. But it did make things clearer as we hurtle towards the end of the season – many …

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