Altrincham away, for the first time. Looking forward to it, although gonna be a long day. (And we'll probably lose.) Good job that I got this lot printed out yesterday, otherwise
@MurdoMacleod6
and I would've needed an even earlier start!
📅
#OTD
5️⃣ years ago, Maidenhead United stuck five unanswered goals past in-form Dartford. Dave Tarpey with four - for the second time that season; third time in the calendar year - including this memorable strike:
Operation 'Wrexham-away-via-drinks-in-Shrewsbury-using-split-tickets-and-a-Two-Together-Railcard-but-actually-not-a-Two-Together-Railcard' is underway! Shout out to Ravneet at the Maidenhead ticket office. Apologies to anyone stuck behind me in the queue!
@HLTCO
A great thread!
I particularly like the German manager watching his team on TV.
Mention of Welcome To Wrexham prompts me to share this clip from the Hollywood owners' first live game, a 3-2 defeat @ Maidenhead United.
"Ryan Reynolds what?"
"You bought the wrong club"
"Oh" 😀
Away Day Diary: Gateshead 4-0 Maidenhead United (29/04/23) Ft. references to a title win at Margate, the GMOSC 'Pub of the Year' in 2018, Plum Porter, the Red Sea, Ryan Reynolds, a lucky egg, Cosy Joe's, and I-SPY.
#FDXXI
,
#nationalleague
,
#newcastle
"It's becoming harder for a side like Maidenhead to compete with teams like Basingstoke" ~ Johnson Hippolyte, Maidenhead Advertiser, 2015
Next season, Maidenhead will play league games with Southend; Basingstoke will face off with Binfield.
Well you all better start washing your hands or we're going to see more games where we desperately miss a crowd to get behind the team (like Weymouth at home). Us and Notts are shafted while fucking Maidenhead can have 1500 in or however many they can scrape together.
📅 🎉 Happy Alan Massey Day! (His recent red card shouldn't sully the occasion.) Check out the Bell End, minus segregation pens, in the relevant video. And be still my beating heart 💓
Notts County fans yesterday when we reminded them that they're Non League. A real shame we didn't get the win that our performance warranted, as the meltdown would've been truly epic.
#teamslikewealdstone
can stick their '23-pass; every player was involved; like Brazil in 1971' goal where the sun doesn't shine (Oldham?). This is how we do it at York Road. And they count the same.
Cabinet has approved a recommendation that it does not agree to the disposal of the open space. We have now moved back to the usual order on the agenda. Cabinet is now considering item 6 - Medium Term Financial Plan 2024/25 –
2028/29. The report is here:
"You can trundle around the trains of the UK to awaydays with your breakfast cans well into your later years all you want, but you will never be 18 again with that ripple of tension, expectation and Jack The Laddery coursing through your veins"
Brilliant stuff from
@bornatotter
A packet of Dunhill, Dexy's Midnight Runners and a Travis Bickle Mohawk Faced with a fuck awful County Cup tie to cover, Totts does what any sane man would. Completely fucks it off & goes on about an impromptu disco dancing competition in the 70's instead.
Heartfelt congrats to all of our friends
@suttonunited
(TBH, it's how I'd imagine feeling if a mate won the lottery: pleased for them, obvs., but also a bit jealous!) We've had numerous memorable encounters over the years; here's hoping for more to come... in the Football League!
Don't agree with all the points but this is spot on:
"Saturdays was not just about anticipating 3.00 but the whole day; the early meet, the weird pubs, the nonsense spoken, the same hackneyed jokes we’ve been telling each other for years that really aren’t funny to anyone else"
I've blogged on football for the 1st time in a while. I've come to the view that there is no point in this current season. Have a read and let me know what you think.
The 20/21 season: is there any point?
"One of the great things about football away trips is that they take you to places you'd probably otherwise never visit. Often you discover that a distant town you'd idly dismissed as dull/grim/rougher than Mitcham is actually rather interesting, sometimes even welcoming"
👆🏻This
A Pint of Strongarm, some Oystercatchers & Jeff Stelling's Howl of Aguish. Here's Amber Aleman with his latest awaydays retrospective, this time on the distant lands of Hartlepool....
"Hello, is that Michael Shanly? I've got an idea for York Road that would enable Maidenhead United to keep playing at the oldest football ground in the world (continuously-used by the same senior club). No, hear me out, Michael, you might like this one ... "
Surprised no one has tweeted this yet:
1. It
2. Is
3. Too
4. Early
5. To
6. Predict
7. Who'll
8. Finish
9. Where
10. In
11. The
12. National
13. League
14. Next
15. Season
16. As
17. Teams
18. Have
19. Barely
20. Signed
21. Any
22. Players
23. Yet
24. Maidenhead
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#OTD
5️⃣ years ago: my favourite Maidenhead United goal. I'll never tire of re-watching. It seems to me that every great moment since - not least winning the league, in fancy dress, @ Margate - came off the back of this.
Happy James Mulley Day! 🥳⚫️⚪️
I know how this is gonna sound, but I miss the Conference South and away days at the likes of Weston and Bath. Much rather that than spending far too much time and money travelling to segregated games at desolate wastelands such as Gateshead.
It's been pointed out to me that
@Ryannn999
made his 250th start for
@MUFCYorkRoad
towards the end of last season - he's now 20th all-time (252), been named as sub 58 times, and scored 27 goals. I don't think that was expected when he signed from Burnham in the summer of 2014. 👏🏻
@WorldClubCrests
The centrepiece of Maidenhead United's badge - recently redesigned for the club's 150th anniversary - is a Grade I listed bridge, opened in 1777, carrying the A4 over the Thames between Maidenhead and Taplow. (The badge also features two seemingly-imprisoned, in-flight Magpies.)
Weren't H&W one of those clubs that kicked up a right ol' fuss about not being classified as 'elite' - which would enable them to compete in play-offs - earlier on in this pandemic?
They were?
OK, thought so. As you were.
Havant & Waterlooville says it's "not safe to play in this current climate".
The club says it won’t play their next 3 fixtures (Concord, Dorking & Braintree)
The Board has decided that the club will put itself into a ‘10 day self-isolation break’.
So, today was rubbish. Missed the Halifax goal- in the Drax years, at least we were in the pub when news came through that Maidenhead were one (& sometimes two) down- & then endured us huffing & puffing. We'll score again etc., etc. Highlight = photos in the bar with Signor Gore.
👏🏻 to
@MaidenheadAds
- this week's edition is good value. The "Editorial musings" on ground move decision set the right tone; I enjoyed Jim Taylor's Viewpoint; MUFC 2023/24 preview is excellent (and not just because this Twitter handle is featured!). A credit to local journalism.
Happy Birthday to Alan Devonshire 🎂🎉🍻👍🏻
Maidenhead United Hall of Famer - see framed photo, below, top right - for his first spell at the club, i.e. *before* winning the Conference South title, four FAC1RP appearances in five years etc., etc.
📅
#OTD
1️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ years ago Maidenhead FC played at York Road for the first time. Next year is the big one ... which reminds me that I need to email a man about a song. 🎵
The youngsters were all queuing up, post-match, for photos with Alexis 'Tik Tok' Andre. Whereas
@MurdoMacleod6
only wanted one with a bonafide Maidenhead United legend.
#OTD
last year
@MUFCYorkRoad
won the Conf S title. Forget Margate (for a moment), the tide turned at Chelmsford. On a bleak Monday night, after wobble, Tarps scored pen, Inman cleared off the line & Steer booted ball into a 🛒. Top spot again. Permanently.
It looks to me like a mobile phone, face down, on a beer mat. Puts the new Maidenhead one - which I still don't particularly like - into some perspective.
Up early (paraphrasing Bart Simpson again: "there's a 5:30 in the morning now?!") for Halifax (A). The last time we played there? Lost 7-4. The last time we played them, earlier this month? We lost on pens. They say revenge is best served cold. If so, today's forecast is perfect!
Relive the horror show with some lunchtime reading:
Away Day Diary: Halifax 7-4 Maidenhead (06/11/21) Ft. refs to Hastings Utd, Ponte Carlo, Goldie Lookin Chain, a Maidonian barman in Leeds, eleven (!) goals, a 40th birthday, & an unenviable
#FACup
record
🚨 Maidenhead United would have won the National League title, if it was decided on the number of times your right-back has appeared in adverts for Marks & Spencer
RIP El Presidente. I've not met anyone with anything but kind words to say about James Parsons: a man who had a long association with MUFC (including the roles of Chairman, President, and Trustee). Old school Maidenhead; in a good way. Another friendly
@PlymouthPFC
in his honour?
This man decided to challenge himself in 22/23: not replacing our 17-goal top scorer (sold to Solihull); regularly playing some Tik Tok fella in goal after our no. 1 banjaxed his knee. Still kept us up, ahead of three (four, if you count Maidstone) ex-FL clubs. AD walks on water!
Happy James Mulley Day! 8️⃣ (EIGHT) years 🥳⚫️⚪️
(Again, I'm conscious that arguably my fave MUFC goal is an equaliser rather than a winner, & we lost the subsequent replay! When your club has clocked up 14 - is that right? - postwar FAC1RP exits, you have to take what you can!)
📅
#OTD
5️⃣ years ago: my favourite Maidenhead United goal. I'll never tire of re-watching. It seems to me that every great moment since - not least winning the league, in fancy dress, @ Margate - came off the back of this.
Happy James Mulley Day! 🥳⚫️⚪️
"In short Devonshire has masterminded another season of survival on one of the league's smallest budgets, having also had to contend with bad injuries to key players"
In short, Alan Devonshire is great.
A shame (1) no testimonial year & (2) his departure appears to have been mishandled by MUFC. 277 starts - 16th all-time - speaks for itself. Also 27 goals, incl. winner vs Sutton in 18/19. One of my fave moments! Upppy upped his game upon promotion to NL. I wish him all the best.
Twice the commentator had to apologise, for clearly audible swearing.
#dearmurdo
Hey ho. Great start to the season (although they looked ordinary).
Well done to the players, staff, and the travelling hordes. ⚫️⚪️♥️
If you are a football person please join the challenge of posting a football photo. Just one picture, no description. Please copy the text in your status, post a picture and look at some great memories/pictures. Missing football ...
"Going with your mates, having a 🍺, being in the town centre beforehand & looking forward to it is the most important thing ... A percentage of it is about the game, but the rest of it is a social occasion. I've been reminded about that this year, if I ever needed a reminder" 👏🏻
"(Maidenhead) games have a scrappy feel to them"
Says the sweary fella who, despite spaffing shed loads of Hollywood cash, seems to rely on long throws and Mullin's head.
Away Day Diary: Chesterfield 3-2 Maidenhead United (20/04/24)
#FDXXII
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#nationalleague
Ft. references to Gateshead, the Cuckoo Way, biscuits, a record attendance, the Mercury Music Prize, Neptune, an inflatable gun, Salt-N-Pepa, and Ring doorbell.
My Grandad was a West Auckland fan. I'm told that he would travel across country, on the supporters coaches. So, he could've been at this. (He passed away suddenly in April 1960.) No way of knowing for sure, but I like to think he was one of the 5,597 (!) fans inside YR that day.
150 Countdown | A series of 150-word articles counting down to the 150th Anniversary of the first football match played at York Road.
Magpies Amateur Cup Hopes Go West ⚫️⚪️
🎉 Happy James Mulley Day! (
#OTD
3yrs ago.) 🤞🏻for more of the same this Saturday! The BBC Sport clip, with excellent 'Pandemonium!' radio commentary, sadly no longer works. But footage - of what remains my favourite MUFC moment - is still available online: