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2025 New Music
at 15:20 5 Dec 2025

Got no idea how to post links to videos, but thought I would draw your attention to Ren. Welsh bloke now living in Brighton, still busking on streets, but doing lots online. Getting a big following.

{edit} as predicted that did not work, so here is link to his wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Gill

Super talented musician - Rap artist, but does loads of other stuff and is also in a band called 'The Big Push' I believe.

He has a great back story - definitely had a tough life with illness, but has channelled that into his music and as an independent has had some chart success.
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FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 14:24 5 Dec 2025

Ball numbers:

1. AFC Bournemouth

2. Arsenal

3. Aston Villa

4. Birmingham City

5. Blackburn Rovers

6. Brentford

7. Brighton & Hove Albion

8. Bristol City

9. Burnley

10. Charlton Athletic

11. Chelsea

12. Coventry City

13. Crystal Palace

14. Derby County

15. Everton

16. Fulham

17. Hull City

18. Ipswich Town

19. Leeds United

20. Leicester City

21. Liverpool

22. Manchester City

23. Manchester United

24. Middlesbrough

25. Millwall

26. Newcastle United

27. Norwich City

28. Nottingham Forest

29. Oxford United

30. Portsmouth

31. Preston North End

32. Queens Park Rangers

33. Sheffield United

34. Sheffield Wednesday

35. Southampton

36. Stoke City

37. Sunderland

38. Swansea City

39. Tottenham Hotspur

40. Watford

41. West Bromwich Albion

42. West Ham United

43. Wolverhampton Wanderers

44. Wrexham

45. Slough Town or Macclesfield

46. Grimsby Town or Wealdstone

47. Sutton United or Shrewsbury Town

48. Swindon Town or Bolton Wanderers

49. Chelmsford City or Weston Super Mare

50. Peterborough United or Barnsley

51. Boreham Wood or Newport County

52. Milton Keynes Dons or Oldham Athletic

53. Wigan Athletic or Barrow

54. Fleetwood Town or Luton Town

55. Salford City or Leyton Orient

56. Accrington Stanley or Mansfield Town

57. Stockport County or Cambridge United

58. Brackley Town or Burton Albion

59. Blackpool or Carlisle United

60. Gateshead or Walsall

61. Exeter City or Wycombe Wanderers

62. Cheltenham Town or Buxton

63. Chesterfield or Doncaster Rovers

64. Port Vale or Bristol Rovers
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FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 14:22 5 Dec 2025

Blackpool / Carlisle away - bloody cold, but good trip. Chance to give Sparky some abuse and get revenge for one of our previous lower division FA Cup capitulations
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Bucket List / Fck It List
at 09:13 5 Dec 2025

QPR Cup Run
QPR in Europe
QPR beating Chelscum 6 - 0 again


Doing the 3 peaks challenge
British lions Tour of South Africa
Ashes Boxing Day Test @ MCG
Trip to Yellowstone National Park
Visiting New Zealand
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Middle Aged Blokes Club
at 14:51 19 Nov 2025

Old Dartfordains Rugby Club. Know it well. Club is in Bourne Road, just outside Old Bexley Village, which is worth a stroll around as it has a few good pubs including a 15th century pub called the Kings Head.

Just over the road from Old Dartfordians is a Holiday Inn and bar called the Black Prince in case you would rather stay over the night, rather than use the spill proof urine bottle on the way home.
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Middle Aged Blokes Club
at 13:43 19 Nov 2025

I had a hip replacement this year - osteoarthritis. Got it in my knees also. Too much Football, Cricket and Athletics when i was younger. Sport is good for you they say!

Had the camera up the japs eye three times in the last year, bladder issues. Getting old is cr*p.

However, still think I am 21 and go out on some ridiculous binge sessions, only to suffer with horrific hangovers for 48 hours afterwards and the sound of the wife banging on 'when will you learn' ringing in my ears

I just find myself becoming less tolerant with ignorant people. Feet on seats on buses and trains, vaping on public transport, not paying for tubes / trains. People dropping litter, fly tipping . The list of things that rile me is increasing.

I am sure I will have a Michael Douglas 'Falling Down' episode one day and go on a rampage
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Mark Kaylor RIP
at 11:06 19 Nov 2025

When I see him next I will mention there is a fellow Leigh-on-Sea Rangers fan and see if he is ok with sharing his contact details with you over DM. I am sure he visits this site when he is not travelling the world.

We are both in our middle to late 50's as well, so good chance you might recognize us from home and away games in the past.
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Mark Kaylor RIP
at 09:53 19 Nov 2025

Well my good friend Andy has lived in Leigh-on-Sea for a good few years after moving out from Ilford, Hornchurch and Brentwood. Quite a few R's out that way
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Mark Kaylor RIP
at 14:38 18 Nov 2025

RIP Mark Kaylor

But your message Discodroids referenced the old East Ham Workings Man Club which brought back great memories of some great nights out in there with my wife's family (all from Canning Town). Used to have Double Diamond on draft in big old pint jugs. Brilliant

Discodroids do you know a QPR fan called Andy who lives in Leigh-On-Sea?
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Favourite Grub as a Kid
at 10:03 12 Nov 2025

The product is indeed still available, but the correct name for them is actually:

Mr Brains Pork F*ggots in a West Country sauce

My mistake
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Favourite Grub as a Kid
at 09:25 12 Nov 2025

Have to agree with other posters about:

Butterscotch Angel Delight
Findus Crispy Pancakes

However, Brains F*ggots in a west country sauce were a firm favourite with creamy mash and veg, and I still eat them to this day. I have actually managed to eat a tray of eight before.

Arctic Roll anyone?

My wife is a desert making goddess and her steamed syrup pudding, Spotted Dick or Jam Roly Poly are heavenly with custard

Her Bread Pudding and Bread & Butter Pudding are also excellent.

My grandads rice pudding with egg custard was delicious. As a WWII vet he used to refer to it as 'Burma Road' pudding
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 15:48 30 Oct 2025

The old East Terrace was amazing. There was a pub not far from the ground called The Valley (now demolished) and it had a huge picture covering a whole wall of that Terrace when it was full, might of been for their record crowd for an FA Cup game when there were 80K in the ground.

My mates being mostly Charlton fans were there clearing up the ground in preparation for one of the moving back to the Valley false dawns and one of my friends saved all the club records. Boxes of team sheets, wage books etc. He struck a deal with the club who bought them back from him years later after he had stored and restored them. They had been left to rot and squatters had been using the books for starting fires, so he saved a lot of the clubs history for them.
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 09:45 30 Oct 2025

Used to hate coming out of WHL and navigating the walk back to Seven Sisters. Remember coming out one year and being attacked by a large mob of spurs waiting at a bus stop and seeing a Stanley blade flash in front of my face, thankfully missing me by centimetres, otherwise my mush would have looked like Adam Ant with his red makeup .

Tottenham - horrid place
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 06:10 30 Oct 2025

Yeovil FA Cup game was a great day out. Remember being in a pub and trying the local scrumpy and had my hand stamped as they only allowed one pint per person.

Very lively before, during and after the game. Police did not have a clue what to do.

Long walk back to the station after the game, soaked and covered in mud
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 15:46 29 Oct 2025

Probably the coldest place I have ever attended an away game, along with the Britannia where the wind blows in all directions
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 15:44 29 Oct 2025

Gillingham's away end was shocking when it was a terrace and even worse now it is a temporary stand. The town centre is f*cked and the majority of the populace are scumbags. Apologies to any Medway Rs on here who reside in the area, I of course exclude you from my sweeping generalisation statement above.

The whole of Lootown should be flattened.
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Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 15:10 29 Oct 2025

When we were in the 3rd tier, trips to the old Chesterfield & Colchester grounds were pretty grim. If I recall at Chesterfield the toilets did not have a roof and to enter the loos you had to step over a gully that carried the piss out.

In both the visits to these places the locals were not that pleased to see us either.
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1939 is 1982
at 14:01 13 Jul 2025

In my case the second Battle of Ypres and the Gallipoli campaign - 1915 pretty horrific WWI misery....have not learnt much since then apart from how to kill from greater distances away
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Pink and Black halves
at 08:16 11 Jul 2025

Yuck, that is awful.

Red & white or red & black halves would have been great

Pink has no relevance to our history - Numpties
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More potential Premier League Nonsense
at 17:01 27 Jun 2025

The Beautiful Game is nearly gone:

WTF are they thinking

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1k84zyml2no

Could be some hilarious interviews though
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