Poppies at the Gates of Dawn

 .....but this was the WhatsApp exchange between my good lady and I within minutes of the new season's fixtures landing! Enjoy that shit...

Last season I bemoaned the fact that I lagged behind Gary Stohrer, Gary Hooper, Gary Graham and Gary Foreman in a Latimer-Park-Gary-Hierarch...

Sure, it's the quiet-time of the footballing calendar.  I get that.  No World Cup or Euro's.  There's some kind of "Club Wo...

So far this week in Poppyland..... New Poppies coach invented a welcome cure for insomnia with a 13 minute interview that felt like 13 hours...

The two worst kept secrets in the country were both given official airings this week, with Simon Hollyhead becoming the new Dr Who and Ncuti...

As the Poppies Ownership continue to root through, no doubt, a stack of admirable applicants for a new Manager, news that whoever is /was th...

Before we delve into the usual post-season glorious Poppies sh*tshow that's raging all around us, we thought we'd take a breath and ...