I was at Catterick Races last Friday – the first day of the 2018/19 ‘Jumps’ season and a decent return of two winners on a seven race card – sufficient to fund the ‘take-away’ on the way home (and I’ll return to the subject of take-aways later). Anyway I mentionRead More →

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. “How do you watch that every week?” was a question posed by many friends of the Ashton household who, for whatever reason, ‘enjoyed’ the Barnet debacle via the powers of television. As I said to Mrs A, “I bet that’s the first time thatRead More →

Have we all booked our hair appointments ahead of Sunday’s televised clash with Barnet? I’ve waited months to use that pun. And was told not to…. In recent weeks I’ve been focussing on recent events at Bolton Wanderers and, outside of some references to the ‘glory days’ at Pools (commentsRead More →

That phrase they use, ‘in living memory’ – as in, ‘the worst floods in living memory’ or ‘the weakest subs bench in living memory’ or ‘the worst home performance in living memory’ – just how far back does it stretch? Because at my age, my ‘living memory’ goes back toRead More →