Wycombe keep falling down that same hill

Wycombe 0 Rochdale 1
Robert Dwyer

ADAM LE FONDRE's celebrations following his last minute winner for Rochdale were no doubt tinged with more than a little relief, after spurning a glorious opportunity just before half-time, somehow heading wide from no more than five yards.

Continue Reading... Comments (0) 24.03.2009. 09:12

Picadilly Palare

Brentford Away by oily sailor

Every pub in Brentford/Ealing has the same name: "The New Inn", so meeting up with people can be a tricky business. "I'm in the New Inn" Barry Kool texted at half past 10. "I'm eating a Thai breakfast of snakes and ladders," Peg Henderson barked into his '98 Nokia. "Shit," I thought "I'm the only one in the New Inn, so where are they?" Turned out I was in the Lesbian Dockworkers New Inn on Beeks Road, opened in 1906 for workers constructing a ship canal between Ealing Common and Wembley Arena. Glenn Miller was going to sail to his gigs in a u-boat but funding ran out.

Continue Reading... Comments (0) 20.03.2009. 13:09

With never the need to fight or to question a single thing

Dagenham & Redbridge 0 Wycombe Wanderers 1
JKDH

Following a week where much has been said about WWFC topics bigger than the issue of getting 3 points at Dagenham (see elsewhere on SMBU for that but suffice to say it is not the time to merrily bob along with your head in the clouds and a mouthful of pie) it was time to concentrate on GETTING 3 POINTS AT DAGENHAM. Massive.

Continue Reading... Comments (0) 18.02.2009. 16:37

Cocaine, coffee and other great South American exports

Wycombe 4 Macclesfield 0
William Poths

If you’d told me five years ago you’d seen Wycombe win a league game 4-0 featuring Scottish and Northern Irish internationals combined with Brazilian, Colombian and Belgian flair I would probably have told you to put down Football Manager and get out more. But that’s exactly what happened at Adams Park last night against Macclesfield Town.

Continue Reading... Comments (2) 03.12.2008. 11:23

The hills were smoking as the men withdrew

AFC Wimbledon 1 Wycombe 4
Stevedore from Tyneside

“It’s going to be like playing on a paddy field”. “My mascara will run”. “I haven’t owned an umbrella since 1986”. “Are tracksuit trousers waterproof?” The melodramatic outpouring from all corners of South Bucks and beyond on Monday afternoon was washed away come the end of the evening, not by the intermittent cloudburst, but by a sleek and slick Wycombe performance which harked back to the O’Neill era.

Continue Reading... Comments (3) 12.11.2008. 14:05

Mark the blanket where the sparrows play

Rotherham United 0-0 Wycombe
TGAS

The first thing I thought when I approached the bizarre structure that is the Don Valley Stadium, is how much I missed Millmoor. Not something I thought I would ever say, but it’s true. The football phrase ‘corridor of uncertainty’ was born from the alley that used to take you down to the away end and it was a good attempt at a lower league ground. .

Continue Reading... Comments (0) 03.11.2008. 15:46