tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99389382012-02-08T09:50:57.230+01:00<br><br><b>click <a href="http://dubsteps.blogspot.com">here</a> for home page<br></b><center><img src="http://p6.hostingprod.com/@vanityprojectfanzine.com/dubsteps650x275px2.jpg" height="275" width="650"><b><br><br><a href="http://dubsteps.blogspot.com/2008/01/h-in-cup-20072008.html">HAVANT &amp; WATERLOOVILLE FA CUP DIARY 2007/08 - CLICK FOR LINKS</a><br><br><br></b></center>skifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03611935963292986777noreply@blogger.comBlogger493125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9938938.post-42638842745419718432012-01-30T10:47:00.007+01:002012-01-30T13:05:32.316+01:00

HatchedCongratulations to my fellow Hawk and sometime dubSteps contributor Adam Cole and his wife for their production of a new member for the London Branch. Now we number three, albeit with one of us as yet unaware of the fact. In years to come young Sam Cole may well look back on these early years envying the blissful ignorance enjoyed by his younger self. I am sure Adam held up his handsome

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21jan12Conference SouthThurrock Hotel, Thurrockatt. 194Thurrock have come into the New Year cast adrift at the bottom of the division, holding up the Conference South like a sunken ship supports the sea. This is in the sense that the ship lies there at the bottom motionless, only burping out the occasional air bubble, as the sea goes about its business as if the ship wasn’t there. To cut a long

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An appraisal of the highlights of a year's gigging by your correspondent can now be found at the Vanity Project site.

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26dec11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 938Take 1: Boxing Day football is great. It allows those of our persuasion to get out from beneath the hillocks of wrapping paper, tear the party popper streamers off the arms of our spectacles and be amongst our brethren full of festive cheer. Take 2: Boxing Day football is awful. Hanging over the gifting and joy of the previous day like the

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17dec11Conference SouthLongmead Stadium, Tonbridgeatt. 599Any readers whose only source of H&Dub information is this site might have a skewed view of how the last few weeks have been. It has been six weeks since this site has managed to observe a fixture, and that was a barrelling 5-0 win. You join us again after a month and a half, and a workmanlike away win is here to greet you. You might be of

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Been getting a little obsessive about seeing members of the late Captain Beefheart's band play his music live just recently. A review encompassing four dates on The Magic Band's UK tour now appears on Vanity Project.

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Various other commitments (plus Weymouth away in the Trophy not appealing to my Christmas-shopping focused wallet) mean the next thing to be written up here will be H&W's away fixture against Tonbridge Angels on December 17th. Assuming it's not snowed off or something.

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A review of rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson, still gigging at the age of 74, is now up at the Vanity Project site.

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A new review of the wonderful Blurt now appears at the Vanity Project site

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29oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 799Now, of course, it’s too soon to start saying “where did it all go right?”. After all Christmas is coming, a period when, typically, the H&W goose does not get fat. If anything it shrivels like a willy in an ice bath. Indeed, traditionally, our players treat the winter like hedgehogs, in that they slow their breathing down to a bare minimum and

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22oct11Conference SouthThe Beveree, Hamptonatt. 475When it comes to taking a decent lead but squandering it and ending up disappointed, this season we rank up there with Kevin Keegan’s first stint with Newcastle and Adolf Hitler’s ill-fated Europa League campaign. Havant & ‘Ville gaffer Shaun Gale currently remains more popular than Hitler but that’s mainly due to the lack of any crossover with

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08oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 766After Wes Fogden had been with us about a year, the disreputable organ before you wrote the following about him: “Despite apparently being named after a minor character in Last of the Summer Wine and having such an enthusiastic proboscis you could spear a bison with it; he has fast become a terrace favourite. He has a Willo-the-Wisp-ish gait

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01oct11FA Cup 2nd Qualifying RoundWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 370Upon the announcement of the 2nd qualifying round draw, the news that Havant & ‘Ville had been drawn at home to Sholing was met with eyes darting side-to-side, fingernails being torn at by agitated teeth, knees knocking like honeymoon suite bedposts against a partition wall.To give an indication of our confidence of late, this was us

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24sep11Conference SouthCrabble Athletic Ground, Doveratt. 735The big action at the Crabble Ground in sunny, coastal, Frenchandtheyknowtheyis Dover was less concerned with the performances on the field as that on the terraces. With respective gaffers Martin Hayes and Shaun Gale both under scrutiny for poor performances in recent weeks, today was a Hawks v Whites grump-off. However, right from the

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10sep11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 789It is footballing law that former players, on returning with their new club, will more often than not haunt you something merciless. Like a series of ghosts to whom you owed money. Thus the fact that Sutton United turn out ex-Hawks like an excitable taxidermist weighed heavy upon us coming into this fixture. That and the five defeats in seven

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29aug11 Conference South Raymond McEnhill Stadium, Salisbury att. 845 When writing the words “already I get the impression we will prove to be tougher to beat this year than last” in your first reportage of the season, you know there is the danger that your chosen phrasing may well come back to bite you in the arse. Given we have now lost four of the subsequent five games I must tell you it’s

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19aug11FA Cup Extra Preliminary RoundColes Park, Haringeyatt. 73The 2011/12 FA Cup will end in North London next May. The team that plays twelve miles to the east of Wembley, at White Hart Lane stadium, might consider themselves a fair bet to win it. The two clubs that play on White Hart Lane itself, at Coles Park, might not have such lofty ambitions yet both began their potentially mountainous

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Review of former This Heat hero and drummer extraordinaire Charles Hayward now onsite at Vanity Project

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06aug11Scottish League Division OneSomerset Park, Ayratt. 1,750In Ayr manager Brian Reid’s programme notes for this first league game of the season, the prior fixtures in the League and Challenge Cups are discussed and he takes time to remark on the “depth of the support on the terraces at East Stirling” which suggests to me that it must have been really wet there. I can well believe that

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Review of Norwich based scamps Bearsuit now at the Vanity Project site.

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13aug11 Conference South Meadow Park, Boreham Wood att. 201 As I left work on Friday my line manager said to me, “hope your team wins”. My reply was simply, “cheers, but that’s not really the way we operate” and it really hasn’t been over the years. Opening day wins are as rare as stamp collecting Satanists in this world of Hawk, only two coming in our thirteen seasons post merger and neither of

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dubSteps will return next month with more on the handsome Havant & 'Ville, as well as the usual annual dispatch from the world of Scottish footballAn army of ducks stare at the skyMeadowbank Stadium, EdinburghPreviously, on dubSteps08aug09: Edinburgh City 1 Edinburgh University 0

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ICC Twenty20 World Cup warm-upThe Oval, LondonPreviously, on dubSteps02jun09: ICC Twenty20 World Cup warm-up

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Two recent reviews added to the Vanity Project site.Meaghan Burke @ Vienna RhizDonaufestival 2011 @ Krems (various venues)

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15th May 2011 (12:00)Tercera Division, Grupo 7AntiguoCanodromo de Carabanchel, Madridatt. 200 (est.)My fellow London-dwelling Havant & 'Ville fan, Adam Cole, is currently working on secondment in Madrid. This meant he missed a large chunk of the H&'Dub end of season run in (for some reason Fuzzbox's 'International Rescue' just started playing in my head). Owing to this absence, our man went in

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