Player Manager Fantasy Football
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 Dis...
2024-07-28 12:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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10.11 - Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
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Player Profile: Emlyn Hugh
2024-07-15 14:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Tomorrow
Hi!
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 ...
2024-07-09 16:06:52 +0000 UTC View Post10.9 - The Prisoner
[Bit of a beefy boy, this. If you don't get
2024-07-05 11:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post10.8 - How to Tame Your Dragon
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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, Ma...
2024-07-01 11:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post10.7 - Bodycam
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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.
Solid Sealettes Sink Sorry S... 2024-06-28 10:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post
10.6 - Keep It Simple, Seals
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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....
2024-06-24 14:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post10.4 - One Man Banned
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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
10.2 - I Came In Like A Wrexham Ball
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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 wa...
2024-06-10 09:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post10.1 - The Cambrian Explosion
Player Manager 10
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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, Eng...
2024-06-06 21:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostHe Writes Rewrites On the Sea Shore
Heeyyyy.
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...
2024-06-05 18:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post9.13 - Epilogue
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"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 ...
2024-05-31 09:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post9.11 - They Think It's All Over
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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 ...
2024-05-24 08:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post9.10 - Plymouth Argyle
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Extract from the voluminous first draft sent to the editor of The First Footballer In Space: The Pascal Bochum Story, Volume 3
Chapter Ten
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 2024-05-20 09:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
9.8 - The Lone Star State
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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 ...
2024-05-13 11:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostBit Sick Soz
Hey, 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...
2024-05-02 13:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post9.5 - With Ball Without Ball (Part Two)
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Football glossary: replay. A r
2024-05-01 16:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post9.4 - With Ball Without Ball (Part One)
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XP balance: 6
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 ge...
2024-04-29 09:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post9.3 - The Long Way Round Part Two
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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 ...
2024-04-22 11:10:40 +0000 UTC View Post9.2 - The Long Way Round (Part One)
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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 sock...
2024-04-19 10:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post