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BRADFORD MIDDLETON

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    MARCH 4TH, FIRST DEFEAT OF THE YEAR

    Millwall lost this morning
    For the first time in 17 since
    We went to Walsall all the way
    Back in December

    Fortunately it was only on
    My radio, naturally […]

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    BRADFORD MIDDLETON became a registered member 7 years ago

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    Wayne, Wayne, where are you?
    Your beloved club are 2-0 down away in Greece
    And the commentator hasn’t mentioned you
    In what seems like a long while

    Wayne, it’s a question of worth
    Are you really worth an ins […]

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    A news piece on the radio this morning piqued my interest
    As it told of how when England play football
    cases of domestic violence increase
    So in this town, the party capital of the south,
    they’ve erected a big s […]

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    Waking early on a Saturday is a rare thing
    But today I woke at half 7 and couldn’t get back at all
    Today has seen the end of the Ashes which we won
    And the start of the football season
    It’s that one game of the […]

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    The crowd chant ‘cheat’ and the commentator reports
    ‘the crowd call him a word starting with C and ending in T’
    before suddenly realising that suggests something else entirely
    He hazards in a ‘H’ to extricate h […]

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    I wake in the morning by way of a change
    And the first thing I do is turn on my radio
    Before moving off to my kitchen for some breakfast
    Which I plan on eating whilst listening to the headlines
    And then it comes, […]

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    The radio is my home on nights like these,
    usually hacked off, annoyed and frustrated.
    As bad news filters through with inevitable regularity
    as another season drones on in the grip of a fight for survival.

    From […]

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    A wet Tuesday night in May 78 and we’re already down
    Relegated to Division 3 with some weeks to spare
    My dad and me leave New Cross Gate
    And head towards the only light we can see
    The Den awaits and a seven year o […]

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