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The Twohundredpercent Magazine: September 2016

The Twohundredpercent Magazine: September 2016

Posted by | May 8, 2017 | | 0

Good evening everybody. Subscribers to the Twohundredpercent e-magazine will have heard the gentle plop of an attachment hitting their inbox this evening, with the issue of the eighth publication. It’s a few days late again, unfortunately, but not as late as last month’s (!) and this month we feature Brian Clough, a brief history of goalkeeper’s gloves, play-offs, and Kelvin MacKenzie. A mixed bag, indeed. As some of you may already be aware, we’ve started to make the older editions of this magazine available for you to download. This month’s is the second edition, from September of last year....

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Blackpool vs Leyton Orient: The EFL Does It Again

Blackpool vs Leyton Orient: The EFL Does It Again

Posted by | May 3, 2017 | , | 0

It wouldn’t have taken a genius, this time last year, to have predicted that possibly the most combustible game of the following League Two season would be the match at Bloomfield Road between Blackpool and Leyton Orient. Both clubs are in a state of something approaching civil war between supporters and owners, and even on-the-pitch matters – Orient finished last season only one place below the play-off positions whilst Blackpool go into the final day of the season with an excellent chance of going one step further than the Os could manage last season – have only partially told...

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Leyton Orient: The Final Lies & Indignity

Leyton Orient: The Final Lies & Indignity

Posted by | Apr 30, 2017 | , | 0

The final home Football League match at Brisbane Road was always going to be an emotional affair. After one hundred and twelve years, the curtain was brought down for Leyton Orient in a manner in which the club’s supporters have become wearyingly familiar over the course of the last nine months or so, with reasonably a comprehensive home defeat against a Colchester United team that still harbours outside hopes of snatching a play-off place come the very end of the season. It seems difficult to believe that the Os were a penalty shoot-out away from Championship football less than...

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Kingstonian & Kingsmeadow: Get Me Out Of Here

Kingstonian & Kingsmeadow: Get Me Out Of Here

Posted by | Apr 30, 2017 | , | 0

Tuesday’s Guardian newspaper contained a terrific double-page article by Nick Ames on Kingstonian’s last-ever game at Kingsmeadow Stadium, where they had played since 19th August 1989. Nick covered almost all the bases; the history, the politics, the possible impact of an immediate-term move out of Kingston borough, the raw emotion, my mate Phil’s bobble hat. And the piece wasn’t harmed by… OK, it massively benefited FROM… the absence of any of my ten-minute chat with him. Because I was, in equal measure, without a bobble-hat… and any emotion worth including in a national newspaper. I recall missing only one...

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The Ryman League Denouement: Close Shaves At Both Ends

The Ryman League Denouement: Close Shaves At Both Ends

Posted by | Apr 25, 2017 | , | 0

Sky Sports would have LOVED it. The title in doubt until minutes from the very end? Play-off and relegation places decided by stoppage-time action? And controversy? Just step this way. Easter Monday simplified the Ryman Premier’s various issues, although it still left only one game, Tonbridge Angels v Worthing, with nothing at all riding on it. Saturday’s extraordinary events reintroduced the chaos theory. To quickly-ish recap, Havant & Waterlooville led the table by two points from Bognor Regis Town, who had a better goal difference. So, if Bognor won at home to relegation-threatened Metropolitan Police, Havant HAD to win at...

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