Hi!
I'm taking a break from writing the frankly stupendous chapter about [spoiler redacted] - you'll never believe who [spoiler] [verbs]!
Anyway, as discussed on Discord a while back, I've set up a 2024-07-28 12:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-07-15 14:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
I just finished the first draft of the next chapter. It's a bit longer than the breezy weekend chapter I was plotting - 13,000 words already. I'll keep working on it tonight, polish tomorrow morning, and bosh it out to you.
Thanks for your patience!
2024-07-09 16:06:52 +0000 UTC View Post[Bit of a beefy boy, this. If you don't get
2024-07-05 11:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post8.
Football glossary: Well in. Praise for a good piece of play. Good job! Well played! Works best when shouted or when there's grunted vibrato on the second word. "Well innnnnnn!"
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Monday, March 3
I was looking out of my office window ...
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Sunday, February 23
The latest blog post from News of the Blues, the leading news and views platform for all things Chester FC.
Author: D.Cox<...
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Thursday, February 20
Double training is normally used as a punishment. The lads lost four-nil at home? Midfield didn't run hard enough? Defenders were out of position? Double training! At Chester we did things different. When I sent out a text saying some people were be...
2024-06-24 14:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post4.
After beating Eastleigh, Emma and I went eastly (lol) to spend a day and a half with TJ and his latest girlfriend in Crawley. We very much didn't talk about the shithead striker he had fobbed off on me, but we did spend a frankly delightful Sunday m...
2024-06-17 10:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post2.
Tuesday, 21 January
Match 24 of 46: Chester vs FC Halifax
After studying our remaining fixtures from all kinds of angles, I decided to spend five hundred of my experience points on something from way down the bottom of my wishlist. The Live Scores ...
2024-06-10 09:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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The story so far:
Max Best, player-manager of Chester FC's men's team, has assembled a talented squad that sits ninth in the fiercely competitive National League, England's fifth tier of football. Having seen off a d...
2024-06-06 21:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostHeeyyyy.
Couple of quick notes.
1. I did a rewrite of some troublesome book 9 scenes and added in a bit more stuff about the takeover. Not loads, and mostly not in Max's POV because he's in denial somewhat. But if you want to do a tiny re-read, start with the Merry Kisimas chapter. It...
2024-06-05 18:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post13.
"Before you pawn off the family silver to buy your dream defender," murmured Sandra, pulling me into a dark crevice behind the stage, "let's do a concussion protocol."
I smiled and checked the area - no-one had followed us. I spoke just as quietly. "It’s the year 3000...
2024-05-31 09:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post11.
Football glossary: "They think it's all over!" Part of Kenneth Wolstenholme's iconic commentary from the 1966 World Cup Final.
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Friday, January 17
"I thought you said you wouldn't take this takeover lying down," said Emma.
I smiled and rolled over. ...
2024-05-24 08:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post10.
Extract from the voluminous first draft sent to the editor of The First Footballer In Space: The Pascal Bochum Story, Volume 3
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Max Best has disappeared.
I...
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Monday, December 9
FA Youth Cup Third Round: Chelsea Under Eighteens vs Chester Under Eighteens
It was dead on four hours from the Deva to Kingsmeadow, the stadium used by Chelsea's women and youth teams. For once I got on the team bus with the bra...
2024-05-13 11:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey, can't write today so no chapter tomorrow. I need to stay under the blanket and eat ice cream and with any luck I'll be all right tomorrow.
Also I got the name of the next chapter wrong. The next one's actually called Copium. I'll get it to you asap!
2024-05-02 13:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post5.
Football glossary: replay. A r
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Monday, October 28
It was a foul morning in the north east, the kind where cats sit on windowsills and look out, glum. The kind where umbrellas get turned inside out. The kind where handsome and t...
2024-04-29 09:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post3.
Monday, October 14
FA Youth Cup Third Qualifying Round: Chester Under Eighteens vs Walsham-le-Willows F.C. Under Eighteens
One artefact of what we might term Historical Gammonism was that while the women didn't get to play at the Deva, the boys did...
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Saturday, October 12
FA Cup Fourth Round Qualifying: Chester vs Mousehole
I was mostly kitted out and ready. It would take me all of ten seconds to put on my boots and slip my shin pads into my socks. I didn't really expect to play. T...
2024-04-19 10:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post