I once visited an old school friend in rehab - he didn't last too long after release. Whilst resident he amused himself by stealing the keys of a locked ward and freeing the inmates. Recklessly mad & funny all at the same time; real life 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'.
I have a new un-used season ticket. Click to continue reading...

The season ticket has been purchased. So it's going to happen all over again. The cycle of life on the terraces will turn again. It makes me feel a little sick at the thought. Don't let it come too soon. I need some recovery time. Click to continue reading...

Football League 2: Staurday 8th May
What an emotional week its been. Martin Horwood (a club supporter) survives as Cheltenham's MP and the Robins sit with their backsides on the relegation trap door with Grimsby down below sleeping with the fishes. Click to continue reading...

Damian Spencer
League Two Saturday 24th April 2010
Two fairly evenly matched teams worked hard and made a scrap of it on a sunny afternoon at Whaddon Road. The season is almost done with, survival seems statistically probable (but not certain) and it's been a roller-coaster ride. We need to bury this season. Click to continue reading...

League 2, Tuesday 20th April
I wonder if the outcome of this game would have been the same if it had been played on 30th January. Then Darlington were struggling and Cheltenham were desperate to get points. Click to continue reading...

League 2, Saturday 10th April
You wait for one win, get two and then a third. The busses keep coming. Cheltenham are pulling themselves together. But there's still time to bugger it up.
It's a bit odd that the teams at the bottom of this league suddenly wake up towards the end of the season. Click to continue reading...

League 2: Monday 5th April
A bit like waiting for a bus really. You stand there on the terraces for hours and then two wins come along, one after another. Not only that, Justin Richards scored both goals. Click to continue reading...

League 2 : Saturday 3rd April
It was family fun day or something similar at Whaddon Road this afternoon. Luckily I arrived as the heavens opened and the fun (if there was any) had subsided. I took this as a good omen. The rain will have dampened any irrational optimism. The disappointment would then be easier to bare. Click to continue reading...

League 2, Saturday 20th March 2010
I don't like opposition goal keepers who wear orange kit. The last one (see 23rd January 2010) cast a 'fluence' on our strikers. This one stopped some shots but looked beatable; although admittedly it was only managed once. Click to continue reading...

League Two: Saturday 13th March 2010
I turned the radio on in hope rather than anticipation just after Cheltenham had gone to 2-3 with a Townsend own goal. It sounded as if they were still in with a chance. Click to continue reading...

Football League 2: Saturday 7th March 2010
I didn't go.
Cheltenham Town: S Brown; A Lescott, M Townsend, A Eastham, L Ridley (M Watkins 82); J Low, M Pook, M Thornhill, M Elito; B Hayles (J Alsop 63), J Richards. Click to continue reading...

Football League 2: Tuesday 2nd March 2010
I've got better things to do than stand around in the cold watching matches like this. Well obviously I haven't. I was still prepared to stand there when it was evident Cheltenham wouldn't score even if we all hung around until midnight. Singing 'what a load of rubbish' at the final whistle seemed unnecessary. Click to continue reading...

Football League 2: Saturday 27th February 2010.
Another late goal against the Robins..... sod it. The statistics for this match are revealing. Cheltenham had 69% of the play on a heavy pitch but fewer corners (5 to 12) or shots on or off of target (6 to 14). I'll have to wait to read the Echo as there was no radio coverage. Click to continue reading...

Football League 2 - Tuesday 23rd February 2010
If Carayol, the late Torquay substitute, was asked to thread a ball through the legs of two defenders as well as those of the keeper and score again we would still be there 48 hours later waiting for him to do it. Surely Ridley, Gallinagah and Brown will have had bad dreams about it. Click to continue reading...

League 2: Saturday 20th February 2010
Hard working old pro's, beyond their best but with a few tricks up their sleeves. Julian Alsop was man of the match and scored a header from almost exactly the same spot as his previous goal. Click to continue reading...