Year: 2022
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T2Oscar’s Odysseys: Newlove of weekday cricket
After 5 years of arduous attempted repairs to my spacecraft, including several winters desperately sourcing key utensils in an attempt to paper over gaps in technology and materials, I was sad to admit that it was now unlikely to become flight worthy ever again. I’m also sorry to admit that any generous donors over winter…
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Mandos serves it up extra-hot, before bowlers put it to Bed(dington)
Across the country, avid sports fans awoke to the promise of a day full of intrigue and drama. Who would prevail at the end of long months tussling for the premiership crown, the blues or the reds (you can tell this report was written by a fan of the bloody footie, can’t you?) In Spain,…
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King’s Road Chinned by Merry Men
Intraclub is fun. So, why stop at one? Such was the thinking of Captain PEJ, glutton for punishment, as the first ever fixture against his band of Merry Men was added to the fixture list. A chance to be reviled not just by ten teammates, but a whole twenty-one. For those uninitiated, the Merry Men…
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You Butter Believe it! Road beat Lords for the first time
After last week’s defeat at the hands of Southbank, The Road were back at Battersea Park. But this time there was something in the air… According to Dan Sherman (and a questionable article in the Guardian) that something was the scent of love…. With love in the air and under cloudy skies captain PEJ won…
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King’s Road’s day goes South in Bank robbery
The sun was shining. The breeze was blowing. People in lycra were taking selfies in Battersea Park. All seemed well with the world as The Road arrived, raring to go for the start of the season. Just one thing was missing…the opposition. Somehow, South Bank had contrived to end up instead at Haydon’s Road. Unperturbed…