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• #141529
Shall we champ? I'd take the season ending now with 3/4 playoff places taken by forum teams.
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• #141531
Playoffs will be a heart breaker if we get to the final, not suggesting we will. Can't see us staying up or getting up.
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• #141532
Derby do seem to be derbying quite spectacularly again this season.
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• #141533
Next year.
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• #141534
This weekend we will turn our fortunes around. A good 5-0 win to lift the spirits.
Other predictions
Ipswich 0-2 SheffU
‘Boro 1-4 Barnsley
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• #141535
Talking of "bants", the recent deluge of photos of Anna Chapman in the papers keeps reminding me of our erstwhile yentzer-in-chief. Hope he has been checked out for nerve gas. Perhaps MI6 will recruit him to pop over the Russia and "off" her in retaliation.
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• #141536
Maybe he could offer to take her to Goodison, and she will just 'off' herself.
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• #141537
Accurate troll is accurate
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• #141538
I'm sure you all know the latest from Champion Hill - owners have locked out Dulwich Hamlet F.C., are trying to bankrupt them by breaking previous commitments regarding finances, have been under-reporting attendance figures in an effort to starve the club of income, and this week attempted to deny the club the right to use the name 'Dulwich Hamlet' with a spurious trademark litigation etc etc. It would be really helpful if any of you could spare the time to write to your MP, MLA & the Mayor, and, if you live in Southwark, especially your local councillors, in support of the proposal that Southwark CPO the stadium.
My letter is below:
Councillors Catherine Rose, Jon Hartley & Andy Simmons
c/o Members Room
160 Tooley Street London SE1 2QHDear Madam & Sirs,
I am writing to you to support the proposal that Southwark Council should seek to acquire the freehold of the Champion Hill stadium with the object of securing the future of Dulwich Hamlet Football Club.
I am sure you are only too aware of the perfidy, avarice, venality and duplicity of the current owners of the site. Their actions this week, breaking many, if not all, previous agreements with the board of both the football club itself, and the board of the supporter’s trust, not to mention the absurd & ridiculous farce of seeking to deny the football club the right to use the name Dulwich Hamlet, are but the latest in a long series of lies & betrayals.
I am not going to recap at length the achievements of the football club in establishing a model for all clubs to follow in becoming a genuine pillar of the local community - they are too numerous to mention - but I will say that if Southwark loses the services of Gavin Rose, the club’s football manager, it will be a huge loss to the borough, and if you want to examine the length & depth of the club’s commitment to giving hope & help to the disadvantaged local youth, I ask you to consult Kevin Holland, former local community police officer, for his recollections of the role the club has played in this.
Personally, as a recent emigré from north London, and former season ticket holder at Arsenal F.C. no longer able to afford to attend, I was delighted by my first visit to see Dulwich Hamlet play at Champion Hill. I have since become a regular attendee, and also volunteered to help with match-day stewarding, and operate the turnstiles.
My girlfriend’s son also attends with his friends, and likewise has undertaken volunteer stewarding, which I feel was very useful for his self-confidence and experience.
In my view, to characterise the fan-base of the club as ‘hipsters’ is simplistic & insulting. The fan-base is as broad in age, gender, race & demographic as the borough itself, and all the cheap cracks about craft beer and sauerkraut are obscuring the truth: Dulwich Hamlet is very much part of the borough’s community, and all Southwark residents can be proud of it, and should do everything they can to support it. I therefore urge you to do likewise, as, I am confident, you already intend to do.
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• #141539
For more info about all the goings on, check the Save Dulwich Hamlet site
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• #141540
Thats a fucking shocker.
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• #141541
Great letter Bill. I especially loved the “the perfidy, avarice, venality and duplicity”.
The situation with DHFC, as well as that at Clapton, is depressingly similar to the position that many league sides have found themselves in. As you say “perfidy, avarice, venality and duplicity”.
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• #141542
Great letter Bill and i will write and send one on.
Having moved away from south London i have lost connection with Dulwich hamlet, (a friend and neighbour used to go regularly and i used to enjoy a pint with him as he chatted away about the game or games coming up)
I had no idea that they were going through such shitstorm. Thanks for putting this up here.
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• #141543
I have questions
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• #141544
Need an early goal here to stop the borefest
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• #141545
Obviously not for the scum. Buses at the ready now
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• #141546
There you go. Great finish
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• #141547
That's that then
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• #141548
First goal from Rashford was class.
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• #141549
Type of game Liverpool could do with a Coutinho or a player who can unlock from deeper - not sure Milner/Can/Ox have that in their locker
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• #141550
can for hendo and the ox for lallana might put a bit more into midfield
nice to see the old defensive frailties are back
finger crossed for some heavy metal football second half although i have a feeling thrushy will shut up shop
Such a pain when going down hills