Football’s Coming Home…

That picture, more than any other since July 4, tells you that normality is returning. Having visited over 30 boozers/sports clubs so far since restrictions were eased it has still irked me that I couldn’t watch a non-league game of football. (3-sided ground – model copied by Oxford) You’re going to have to let me…

Saints And Sinners – Ashby Style

Another niche musical reference in the title there….I would of course keep you on tenterhooks but I know Duncan is a big fan of the Scottish Punk scene in 1977 and he is happy to let you know that this was the title of Johnny & The Self Abusers only single. For some bizarre reason…

Blues, Bowls, (Tennis) Balls & Bears: A Winning Formula In Solihull

A short break from my tour of central Derby to bring you an unashamed plug for a cricket club in Solihull that is selling booze at good price. Steve Perryman of Warwickshire fame (not the Spurs defender) spent eight years at Edgbaston before coaching the Bears successfully in the nineties under Bob Woolmer and now…

West End Girl…In Coalville

(spot the pub gaffer!)  I have just read the dreadfully sad news about pub legend Alan Winfield and would like to dedicate this post to him because this is the sort of pub he would have caught a bus all the way from Stapleford for. https://neverendingpubcrawl.blogspot.com/2018/07/my-top-five-pubs.html I’m not sure if you can get the bus…