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28apr18 National League South West Leigh Park, Havant att. 2,270 Sometimes, something so special happens, it inspires you in a way you’ve not felt inspired for years. It releases endorphins that course through you, keeps you smiling like a giddy loon on the car, train and tube journeys home long after the final whistle. People edge away from you, slightly concerned, but you don’t care. Cos

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26apr14 Conference South Longmead Stadium, Tonbridge att. 515 Check yo’ privilege, the kids say that, don’t they? They also say “I’m just mossin’ wiv my mains, bro” and when they do, I have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Hashtag Helptheaged etc. However the privilege thing I can get on board with. Let’s be grateful for what we have, rather than bitter about what we don’t. That

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23apr14 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 532 Where’s the fun in doing things the easy way, eh? One could argue that we were getting ahead of ourselves by beating Eastleigh on Monday. That was never part of the plan, hands having already been ripped off for a point. Perhaps that relaxed us. Two points from two games against clubs in the bottom three? In the back of our minds we could

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21apr14 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 932 The story goes that it took several attempts to finish off Grigori Rasputin. Poison, gunfire and a hefty clubbing came his way before he eventually succumbed. I would say that we are the Rasputin of the Conference South, as just as it looks like we’re about to collapse into the snow, we struggle on, but with the fact our season remains

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16apr14 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 562 As you’ll know, this site does not really specialise in sober reportage more a haphazard sketch, sometimes even a caricature, of the matchday experience. Thus one craves the ‘unusual’ to spark the synapses into writing something hopefully a little bit different. Frankly there’s only so many times one can find different ways of

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12apr14 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 604 Recently I’ve been watching a lot of film about the First World War, being that it’s the hundredth anniversary since Archie Duke shot an ostrich cos he was hungry. Something like that anyway, damn my Curtis/Elton education, Michael Gove was right. The images from that time are nasty of course, and I was grateful that I would likely not

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05apr14 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 576 In the last week, we strolled to a scoreless point at Chelmsford, and followed that up with two further away games, a 1-0 defeat at Staines Town on Tuesday and a deflating 3-1 bump at Sutton United. We’d been waiting for this moment, for our brave boys to hit the wall and the eight games a week to finally take a big bat to their

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29mar14 Conference South Melbourne Stadium, Chelmsford att. 613 In 1964, pop art provocateur Andy Warhol released Empire. It was an eight hour silent film consisting of one continuous but slow-motion shot of the top of the Empire State Building. Despite this, Empire still contained slightly more incident than this game here at Chelmsford. Actually that’s doing it a disservice, given that our

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22mar14 Conference South Camrose Stadium, Basingstoke att. 344 Three weeks into March and we’ve played ten games within it. The report card thus far is six wins, two draws and two defeats. We started with four wins and two draws and felt indomitable, like General Zod before the old switcheroo knuckle cruncher. It seemed that a game every couple of days was good for us, like a perpetual motion

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08mar14 Conference South Priory Lane, Eastbourne att. 534 You find us at the end of an exhilarating week. Two weeks ago we sat hunched against a fence, cutting onions and pretending to have grit in our eyes; full of despair we woz. A fortnight hence and we feel swelled, alive, erect and bouncing like a tossed caber; full of pride we izz. What, you might ask, are the sources of this pride,

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03mar14 Hampshire Senior Cup Semi-Final Westleigh Park, Havant att. 223 I’ve missed the Hampshire Senior Cup. It’s been almost exactly eleven years since I saw my last Hampshire Cup tie; the ill-fated two-legged semi-final against Bashley. That following summer I moved north and when travelling from Leeds, Liverpool or London for games (as has been the case since then), one tends to favour the

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01mar14 Conference South Kingfield Stadium, Woking att. 170 As the final whistle sounded on this game, we had reached the half way point of our league season. Twenty-one games played in the 195 days since we began on August 17th at Ebbsfleet. Now, the remaining twenty-one, plus a Hampshire Senior Cup semi-final, will have to be played in the 55 days we have left. All our Saturdays and Tuesdays

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22feb14 FA Trophy Semi Final 2nd leg Privett Park, Gosport att. 2,901 A couple of years ago, one of my Hawk chums asked me if fancied going to one of the Euro Championship qualifiers at Wembley. I said no, reasoning that if I was to go to the national stadium, I wanted to save my first time for the Hawks. Of course, my chums rightly scoffed, as the chances of a club of our size getting there are

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17feb14 FA Trophy Semi-Final 1st Leg Westleigh Park, Havant Just getting a game on has been a feat in recent weeks against the rains that have battered the south coast. Our pitch has had little respite, and even after a couple of days with only a shower or two, the central strip of the pitch remained heavier than a rhino that’s over indulged on the Christmas Quality Street. However it was fit

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04feb14 FA Trophy Quarter Final Westleigh Park, Havant att. 1125 Now in some ways it’s been a frustrating 2014 so far. In ten attempts to get fixtures on this year, seven have been postponed. This, in theory, should do nothing for our momentum, and yet in the three games we have got going in that time we have advanced to the semi-finals of two cup competitions. Alright so we’re about

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11jan14 FA Trophy Third Round Westleigh Park, Havant att. 709 Roughly six years ago, you would have found us singing “We’re the famous Havant ‘Looville, and we’re going to Wem-ber-lee” whilst we refused to accept our station and scampered about the shinier floors of the FA Cup like a giddy tramp skilfully evading the Harrods’ security detail. Now, of course, it was sung then with a sense of

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26dec13 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 773 It’s that time of year again. You’re off work and knocking about home, completely at leisure. What better time to catch up with what the Hawk players have been tweeting about recently, eh? Well, it turns out Steve Ramsay put little effort into his Secret Santa gift purchase and was blaming illness while Scott Jones left his Christmas

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14dec13 FA Trophy Second Round Enclosed Ground, Brighton att. 150 Just as with League clubs, us non-Leaguers have a second bite of the ‘Road to Wembley’ cherry aside from any FA Cup adventures, or indeed lack of them. Just as with League clubs, we tend not to get too excited by that second ‘road’ until so close to Wembley we’re practically free-climbing the arch. This has been especially

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02nov13 Conference South Twerton Park, Bath att. 451 A few steps forward, a pivot, then a few steps back. As familiar a pattern to we Hawks fans as it is to those who regularly dance the Gay Gordons. That dance either ends with a vigorous polka or, in my case when I last danced it at a conference dinner, a pounding headache. A joyous coda, or a painful one. This season could still finish with

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26oct13 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 745 As I type they say a storm is coming to these Isles. Batten down the hatches, nail yourself to the floorboards and sling yer valuables in the fridge, all that. If so, this game was the calm before it. A draw that reflected the balance of play, with no great moments of contention. Then again, for all that equilibrium, we did get a few

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12oct13 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 956 Like an attempt on the ‘most Vegas crooners snapping out a swing beat with their fingers’ world record, sometimes everything just clicks. Just three weeks ago we were taking five fists to the face from Sutton’s fruitful forwards. Just a week and a half ago, we exited the FA Cup like a knuckleheaded homophobe that had accidentally wandered

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05oct13 Conference South York Road, Maidenhead att. 307 It’s been terrible really. Since exiting the FA Cup on Tuesday night, losing 3-2 at home to Gloucester City following the 1-1 draw away, every time I pick up my carton of orange juice and see ‘concentrate’ written on the side, my evil, cackling mind decides to add ‘on the league’ after it. He loves a bit of internal monologue banter does my

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29sep13 FA Cup Second Qualifying Round Whaddon Road, Cheltenham att. 336 Of course, we always want what we haven’t got. We like the FA Cup for a trip somewhere ‘new’. Only trouble is that bloody ball-bag at the FA will send us somewhere new and DIFFICULT. We like the FA Cup for the chance to play teams we’re unfamiliar with from lower divisions who we’ll most likely beat. Trouble is they’ll then

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21sep13 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 530 Oh. Dear. God. Now, dear reader, I would certainly be bottling it to not contribute some words on this fixture. To not acknowledge this game and pretend it never existed would be conduct unbecoming of a gentleman. For a start, through knowing a couple of Sutton fans, my Facebook world was LITTERED with the foulness of their celebratory

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11sep13 Conference South Westleigh Park, Havant att. 469 This last week and half has been all about the 2-1’s, with two defeats of that detestably close-run kidney followed by a WIIIIIIIIIN by that most glorious of margins. This short-notice mid-week fixture gave us a quick chance to put right what last week went wrong. We were playing the most disliked club in the Conference South,

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