Crystal Palace (h) - 15/9/07 - Worse Memories Than Most

I think everybody was desperate for us to beat Crystal Palace, and with good reason. For the past few years they seem to have attained the unfortunate status of being our 'bogey team', no matter what we seem to do, every game against them seems to have
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Cardiff (h) - 1/9/07 - An Extra Ticket For Frustration

Against her better judgement, my girlfriend had decided that she would accompany me to the game against Cardiff. Now she's not a big football fan ("well that's good, you don't get see much football being played at Carrow Road these days!", I hear you
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Rochdale (a) - 28/8/07 - Radio Radio Radio

A League Cup match in Rochdale on a Tuesday night was hardly going to be the most likely occasion to draw me to my first away match of the new season (that will most likely end up being at Wolves next month), so while the hardy souls who had made the
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Hull (a) - 25/8/07 - Away In More Ways Than One...

Perhaps the most difficult task for any committed football fan is to spend an entire Saturday afternoon out of range of any access to a television, the radio or the internet. For one reason or another, most of us will have to undergo this ordeal several
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Southampton (h) - 18/8/07 - Fan Power

There are occasions, sometimes no more than a few times a season, when it really feels like the fans watching the game can actually affect the outcome of the game. The proverbial cliche of the 12th Man comes into play for various reasons, when supporters
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Barnet (h) - 14/8/07 - Five Alive!

If I'm allowed to use a rather over elaborate metaphor for a second, then it seems to me that the main competitions in English football rather seem to resemble our political spectrum. The Premiership would be Labour, after all it was modernised in the
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Preston (a) - 11/8/07 - Back In...Yellow

After months of anticipation and speculation, with plenty of optimism and pessimism thrown in for good measure, the new season has finally arrived. While your average football fan these days barely notices the gap between one season ending and another
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