by thelonelygoalpost | Jun 24, 2020 | 1950s Football, 1960s Football, 1980s Football, 1990s Football, Dorset Football, Football Memories, My Lonely Goalpost
Hamworthy Royals is a team very much close to Ian Heyward’s heart. It is the youth team that he managed in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I am fortunate enough to have played for him from 1987, where my babysitter gave me the best birthday present ever. He gave me the...
by thelonelygoalpost | Jun 14, 2020 | 1950s Football, 1960s Football, Dorset Football, Football Memories, My Lonely Goalpost
Branksome Rec would be overflowing with enthusiastic and committed footballers in the fifties and sixties. Having worked on the shipyard, building site or similar, playing football would be the highlight of the working week. Battles would commence on the muddied...
by thelonelygoalpost | Jun 10, 2020 | 1960s Football, 1970s Football, Dorset Football, Football Memories, My Lonely Goalpost
My Lonely Goalpost #2 – Ian Stokes – Sturminster Marshall. Dorset has a proud reputation for producing football teams throughout the area of the county. For many of these teams the goal was to play in the Dorset Combination League. Sturminster Marshall...
by thelonelygoalpost | Jun 2, 2020 | Football Memories, Top 5's
Welcome to The Lonely Goalpost Top 5’s, starting off with the top 5 goals of all time. The Top 5’s is a footballing list where anything can be categorised into a Top 5 category. It’s not definitive and there is no particular order. The list is...
by thelonelygoalpost | May 27, 2020 | 1990s Football, Football Memories, The Champions League, The FA Cup
The treble of 1999 brings back so many memories that extend beyond Manchester United. This article explores this so please keep reading if Manchester United are not your favourite team. The only treble I knew in 1999 was asking the bar person to sneak an extra shot of...
by thelonelygoalpost | May 20, 2020 | Football Memories, Football Opinion
Are you missing football? It has been over two months since football has been played in England and there’s ongoing talk about an imminent return on these shores. How have you all coped? Let’s just make this clear, this post is not about whether football should...
by thelonelygoalpost | May 14, 2020 | 1990s Football, England, Football Memories, The World Cup
Italia 90, what did you do to me? I recently stumble across the World Cup Quarter Final between England and Cameroon from Italia 90. I watch the BBC World Cup Grandstand introduction and come on, come on, it does not get any better than that. Listening to ‘Nessun...
by thelonelygoalpost | May 6, 2020 | Football Memories, My Lonely Goalpost, Scottish Football
My Lonely Goalpost #1 – Lex Gold CBE Recollecting the life of Lex Gold CBE is an extremely fascinating story to listen to. His story takes him from the fierce competition of Scottish Schoolboy football in the 1950’s to signing professional forms for one of the...
by thelonelygoalpost | Apr 29, 2020 | England, Football Memories, The World Cup
‘Thirty years of hurt,’ the saying in the song goes. This is in reference to it being thirty years of hurt that English football has seen since the 1966 home World Cup win. This is a story of the curse that Franz Beckenbauer casts over English football....
by thelonelygoalpost | Apr 9, 2020 | 1980s Football, Football Memories, The FA Cup
‘The Magic of the FA Cup’ is a saying that’s closely associated with ‘The Road to Wembley’ and surely plays a prominent part in the memory of every football fan. I used to love the FA Cup and it still holds a place close to my footballing heart. In fact, a...
