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Hanging around outside public buildings asking strangers to scribble on bits of paper can become an obsession, as John Hall explained in WSC 7
New figures show that football-related arrests remain at an all-time low, but the ever-increasing powers of FBOs have had a huge impact on supporters’ basic rights
Badge of the week ~ Rebels FC, British Virgin Islands
There are some things one’s mind jolts to instantly on hearing the word “rebel”. One is of course, Marlon Brando in The Wild One. If I recall the dialogue correctly: Young lady: “What are you rebelling against Johnny?” Marlon Brando: “What’ve you got?” Young lady: “Chlamydia.” Marlon Brando: “I’m rebelling against chlamydia.”
After six years in non-League the Mariners pulled together under Paul Hurst
4 August ~ “Clap, clap, clap, clap… Fish!” is still reverberating around my head a couple of months after Grimsby’s play-off final victory and return to the Football League. It doesn’t seem over six years since I wrote about going to work past the street named after Mariners legend Jackie Bestall and how he would be turning in his grave as we slipped into non-League. There is a whole generation of Grimsby fans (my own boys included) who had never experienced promotion, only relegation.