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Five Reasons Wycombe Are A Bigger Club Than Oxford

by admin on 18. Aug, 2010 in Editorial

1) Oxford Are The Provincial Chelsea
Just as Chelsea’s success is built on the former wealth of the Russian working class, Oxford’s brief taste of the top table was funded by Robert Maxwell’s obese pension raids. United fans may still pathetically celebrate the 1986 Cow’s Milk Cup but thousands of shivering pensioners still can’t afford to [...]

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I don’t believe in what my eyes don’t see

by admin on 07. Sep, 2009 in Match Reports 09/10

Brighton Away, oily sailor
Bleak. Bleak House, Bleak To The Future, The One Show with Christine Bleakley, Bleak Morrison, Bleak Party, Ivor Bleaks, Bleaky Bleakinsop, That Bleak Bloke Blake. It was a bleak day alright, down on the coast with the sand from the long jump pit gritting our eyes, drying out the tears that were [...]

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2008/09 Season Review

by admin on 15. May, 2009 in Uncategorized

SMBU end of season review 2008-09
Here be a review of the season 2008-2009 and what happened within it. We are Wycombe Wanderers and this was our campaign. And let it be known, that it ended in success and festivals. And God was glad.
August
The season began in a gloom matrix as playoff failure lingered in the [...]

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Picadilly Palare

by admin on 20. Mar, 2009 in Match Reports 08/09

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,” [...]

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Rage Against The Machine

by admin on 16. Sep, 2008 in Match Reports 08/09

Wycombe 0-0 Brentford
oily sailor
No-one minds queuing in certain circumstances. Queuing for food vouchers or guns or just to see what’s at the other end. That’s all fine. Queuing for 25 minutes in a queue less than 10 people long for tickets for a League Two football match, well that I can do without. There’s no [...]

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