Guy "Blogston" Strikes Back!

Hello again everyone.

You'll be pleased to hear that I'm still doing really well and just about holding Burton's defence together single-handedly. Yesterday's five goals had nothing to do with me. I was nowhere near the ball on any occasion.

Looked out for you guys in the Cup draw, but you unluckily missed out on seeing how brilliant I'm playing at the moment. Of course, you could pop up to Burton rather than go all the way up to Hartlepool, assuming you beat Red Itch. Just a thought.

Catch you later.

Guy XXX

Marketplace Revisited

I don't care what anyone says, I think the new look market place is OK. It looks good and you can kind of see what they were aiming for, right down to the bit on the Kettering timeline where they've conveniently left room for the demise of the Poppies. Plus, given the fact that the three and a half stalls which make up Kettering market are NEVER going to move back there, something had to be done with the area. By the way, I always laugh when the morning travel reports on Radio Northampton make a point of informing their listeners that they should look out for increased traffic on market days in Kettering! I'm not sure a fruit & veg stall, a bloke selling his collection of old CD's and a guy flogging fish out of the back of his van should really disrupt our over-burdened road network too much!

As we foresaw in an earlier blog, the area seems to have developed into a mecca for our dumb-ass, halfwit youths to do those tossy skateboard jumps, which by all laws of physics, should shatter their legs every time, and ride tiny little bikes with no brakes. What is it with these chavvy dickheads and their tiny little bikes? You must have seen them. Generally they are full grown men on piddly, single gear BMX type bikes, with their saddles about an inch above the back wheel, with their only method of braking to shove a foot on the rear wheel! When they pedal hard, reaching speeds of almost walking pace, their knees are bobbing furiously either side of their stupid heads!

Curiously, none of the Council's "artist's impressions" of how the market place would look featured the town's gaggle of half-brained, inbred scum draped over it, looking like they need culling. No, the initial drawings tended to feature perfect looking families enjoying the fountains, horse-drawn carriages and leafy trees. And not the collection of low-browed scuzz, who's only interest to society is to throw a spanner in the works of the theory of evolution.

But, as we are dealing with Kettering Borough Council, which is second to none when it comes to addressing the concerns of its residents (sarcasm), action has been swift and decisive. This sign has now gone up on the market square. Who knows, if the mongrels could actually read after attending school for 10 years, it might have some effect, but I doubt it. We shall see.

Redditch FA Cup Match Report

Memorable Things about Redditch

You say the word "Redditch" to me and three things spring instantly to mind.

The first is the guy they had in goal until the last year or so. Kinda little. Kinda looked like an accountant or middle management type. Always had a smile on his face, and constantly chatted to the crowd behind him. Despite the fact that he usually let in 3-4 goals per game he always seemed very happy to be playing. Almost as if he'd turned up to go over the club's books and ended up playing for them. The way I imagine it is that just as he was adding up the sponsorship receipts (all £3.20 of it), the players shouted up to the office that they needed a second goalie to help out with a training game. He put down his calculator and said that he'd played a bit back at college. The players convinced him to give it a go, so he fished his golf boots out of the back of his Mondeo and went between the sticks. Next thing, it's several years later and he's still playing for them, which didn't say much about the previous goalie.... Here's little Richard having yet another swing-and-a-miss.

The second image that springs to mind was the pissed-up gumbie who threatened about 30 Poppies fans for celebrating a goal. He just walked up to the little stand we were sat on and basically threatened us all. I say "walked." He had been liberally swigging from what seemed to be a large clay cider pot through most of the game, pausing only now and again to swear and gesture at the away supporters. In fact, when he'd had just about enough of us and came over to give us a barely affordable piece of his mind, he left his drink container with the steward he had been standing next to for the entire game. The obliging steward, who could teach our stewards a thing or two about customer care, dutifully guarded the bottle until its erratic owner came back. Marvellous entertainment.

The third thing that comes to mind is that great big black defender they used to have. What was his name? Exodus Mombassa or something. Bloody good player with an enormous throw-in. I often thought, if he could be on the end of his own throws, Redditch might be a decent team!

I wonder what happened to him?

Email to our Councillors

Below is a copy of an email we have sent to all the councillors that have email addresses. We await the responses with interest. Perhaps they will not all be in political double-speak, but we're not hopeful.

Below is a link to locate your local councillor. You may not have voted for them, or have even heard of them, but use your right to question them. All we will suggest is to keep your email as polite as possible. Yeah, it's tough, but give it a go!
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http://www.kettering.gov.uk/site/scripts/councillors.php?viewBy=name
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"I trust you have read the report in the Evening Telegraph on 16th October 2009, suggesting that the Council are indifferent to the survival of Kettering Town Football Club. As far as it is apparent, the Football Club are not asking for public money of property, and yet still our elected officials seem to object. A private initiative between KTFC, a supermarket chain and a local landowner would have paid for everything, and still it is not good enough for KBC.
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In Northampton the council built the current Cobbler's ground. In Corby the council are about to build the Steelmen their SECOND new ground. KTFC are asking for nothing from you other than permission to save the club that means so much to so many people in the Borough.
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Seemingly the Poppies are treated like lepers by our Council. Except, of course, when they win trophies of do well in the FA Cup and the you all get to bask in a bit of reflected glory.
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It has since been alleged that someone within the Council has told the supermarket chain that they will not get permission to build a new store, football ground and community facilities, BUT it will receive permission AND land if they build the Council a new facility and swimming pool on the site earmarked for the football club.
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I have no idea if this is true, but in a climate where the standing of politicians is at an all time low, surely such an illegal not to mention immoral move could prove disastrous.
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As a resident of the Borough of Kettering I would greatly appreciate it if you could confirm that (A) you yourself have had no such conversations as appear in the bold section above, and (B) whether you would support the football club's plans for the very survival of professional football in this town?
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Thank you for your time."

What do you call 100 drowned politicians?*

So where does Councillor Hakewell's "decree" that we cannot build a new ground in conjunction with an out of town supermarket leave us? If it was down to him and his ilk - dead. Politicians, eh?

Let's see if we have this clear....

Kettering Town Football Club have asked our Council for NO MONEY.

Kettering Town Football Club have asked our Council for NO LAND.

The land and finance were sourced elsewhere. All we need is permission to build on land the council doesn't own, in an area they don't want.

It would cost Councillor Hakewell and his cohorts ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to ensure this Club survives, and yet this man has the audacity to say "No". By what right?

This man who doesn't even live in Kettering seems to think he has the right to determine if OUR football club lives or dies. This is a man who claims to care for the needs of the wider community beyond the "few" of the town's citizens who support the Poppies. What he neglects to say, however, that his mandate to speak for the whole of Kettering was the whopping 1049 votes he received in the 2007 Borough elections. That's right, based on a smaller number of votes than we'd get supporters for a midweek fixture in January he can determine whether the Poppies live or die. Less people could be bothered to sign an "X" next to this man's name than would pay good money to stand around and watch the Poppies in the rain and sleet.

He managed a crummy 1049 votes in a wealthy middle class area! Is this democracy? Should this give him the authority to kill the only institution that projects the good name of Kettering beyond the borders of the town?

The alleged news that the deal the Club had worked out with the supermarket chain may have been hijacked by various councillors in order for them to get new offices and amenities built is outrageous. If true of course. Are politicians as bad as the tabloids tell us they are? As sleazy? We cannot believe that one of them would have the gall to meet the representative of a supermarket chain and say something like -

"We won't give permission for a new supermarket, football ground, and community facilities, BUT, if you build US a new council chamber and offices along with a new swimming pool we may we'd look favourably on the application".

This sounds too preposterous for words. Surely? How crooked would this be? How illegal?

We feel that the Kettering Borough Councillors, have the right to refute such an obvious falsehood. To that end, PATGOD will be emailing each and every Borough Councillor and offer them the chance to confirm that they not only wouldn't had made such an offer, but to condone such a discussion if it had occurred.

It will be interesting to see who does and who doesn't reply. We'll keep you informed.

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* Some might say, "A start".

Corby finally denied something shock!

News has reached us that Corby will NOT be the centre of a new "University of North Northamptonshire."


Corby MP Phil Hope replied to this almost unique instance of Corby not getting what it wanted with the measured and statesman-like response of spitting his dummy out and exclaiming, "Don't these people know who they're f**king with?"


The Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) knocked back the plan to give Corby a University, reasoning that it would be, "An absolute waste of time offering degree level courses to the brain-dead, drugged-up, wannabe-jock, knob-jockeys who infest that town."


We asked a local Corby youth for his opinion on this story. He offered to, "Blow yous for the price of a can of Irn Bru", and then pulled out a knife and chased us down the road.