Issue 92 – 24 August 2009
Posted in: Magazines
County too sharp for the Daggers
Notts County kept up their 100% start at Meadow Lane with their second victory on home turf yesterday, this time a 3-0 triumph over then league leaders Dagenham & Redbridge. The Daggers had knocked the Magpies off top spot in midweek after a 5-0 victory over Shrewsbury Town, but after [...]
Issue 91 – 17 August 2009
Posted in: Magazines
Nottingham can’t tame the Tigers
Nottingham Rugby faced a strong Leicester Tigers outfit at Meadow Lane on Saturday afternoon, losing out 47-5 to the Guinness Premiership champions. The 2,000-strong crowd saw the Tigers run in seven tries, including one from Nottingham back row man Ben Pienaar who turned out for Leicester.
Lady Luck’s not shining on [...]
Issue 90 – 10 August 2009
Posted in: Magazines
BallsMania meets-up with Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch
BallsMania met-up with Carl Froch, relaxing at his home prior to the build-up for the new Super Six round-robin tournament that is kicking-off in October. The tournament will lay claim to which boxer is the ultimate ‘World Champion’ in the Middleweight division and BallsMania wanted to get The Cobra’s [...]
Me Owd Duck on a Grand Day Out
Posted in: LTLF - Nottingham Forest, Syndicated sites
Now then,
This is a story and it’s a very old story. I’ll tell it to you as it was told to me and this might just be the first time it was written down.
It was a very long time ago when football was a different sport entirely. It was played by hard men as the [...]
Issue 89 – 03 August 2009
Posted in: Magazines
County’s wheelbarrow keeps rolling on… next-up Bradford
Notts County rounded off their pre-season preparations with a 2-2 draw at home to a Liverpool XI this evening. Defenders Mike Edwards and Graeme Lee got the goals in an entertaining clash at Meadow Lane in the Magpies’ final pre-season fixture before the start of the 2009/10 season next [...]
THEY’RE ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS: INTRODUCING THE ‘S’ SERIES WHEELBARRAH
Posted in: Aspley Red, LTLF - Nottingham Forest
An American friend of mine supports the Boston Red Sox, a team who toiled for years in the backwaters of Major League Baseball. If life as a Sox fan was bleak – a masochistic slog, laced with misfortune and trauma and a stubborn whiff of the surreal – then it was particularly bleak in [...]
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