Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
On Thursday lunchtime, Northern League club Billingham Synthonia tweeted out a statement that indicated that they needed to raise £10,000 in order to see out this season after the sponsor / benefactor who had been funding the club walked away. Like us here at Cables,...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
Last Saturday’s important victory over Kidsgrove Athletic put me in a pretty good mood but, as happens so often, this beautiful game we’re all mad about was winding me up again pretty quickly. The postponement of the North London Derby on Sunday left me baffled. The...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
In this strange Step 4 season – a campaign in which Cables have both scored and conceded seven goals in League fixtures – Tuesday night saw possibly the most remarkable shellacking of the campaign so far. In the Isthmian League South Central Division, Staines Town’s...
Jan 30, 2022 | Football Writing
The challenge with writing a column for a programme being published on New Year’s Day is that you have to work to a pre-Christmas deadline. Rather than take a punt at predicting the future, I started wondering how our predecessors would have coped with Bank Holiday...
Jan 26, 2022 | Football Writing
Here we are again, gathered at the IP Truck Parts Stadium for the proverbial ‘six-pointer’ against Market Drayton Town. I’d fought against using that old cliché on this page, but we’re nearly at the end of a challenging year and the League Table doesn’t lie. A...