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Fry Crayola

Fry Crayola

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A lot of it's come from back when I was making a football game (that's been shelved because it wasn't going anywhere). I did an awful lot of reading around about systems and such whilst bored in my old job. I know a perverse amount about the structures in foreign countries (did you know, for example, that in Vanuatu the top five at the end of the season play a double round robin to qualify for the O-League? You do now, but I bet you wish you didn't) but next to sweet fuck all about the actual football being played in them. :D

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neoELITE

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In terms of the football league, I have no idea what the official lowest tier is. I once played in an FA Cup match for St Blazey in Cornwall. We only had to go through seven qualifying matches to reach the first round proper. We won the first four games but didn't make it unfortunately. It was ten years ago and I think the club had to stump up quite a bit of money to enter it and each round carried prize money. At the time, the local paper ran a story that we were only three games away from a possible tie against QPR, Cardiff City or Stoke City :facepalm:

2001 was a fine year... Plymouth Argyle won the league that year with 102 points and a goal difference of +43 - what's happened :(

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Fry Crayola

Fry Crayola

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2001/02 season?

I've got a 4-2 home win over Bishop Sutton in the preliminary round, a 5-0 whupping of Shortwood United (poor guys) in the first qualifying round, then a 3-1 win against Chippenham Town (who were three divisions above you - nice work!) before it came to a halt at Worcester City, a 3-2 defeat. All home games.

That was the third qualifying round, so had you won you'd have been one game away from the promised land of the First Round. As you'd be the same ball number as Worcester, who beat Belper Town in the following round after a replay, you'd have drawn the mighty....

Rushden & Diamonds. Well, they were kinda mighty then, they were in their first season as a league club, and snaffled a 1-0 win.

St Blazey were in the tenth level of the league system at the time. Now they're in the tenth. How times change.

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neoELITE

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2001/02 season?

I've got a 4-2 home win over Bishop Sutton in the preliminary round, a 5-0 whupping of Shortwood United (poor guys) in the first qualifying round, then a 3-1 win against Chippenham Town (who were three divisions above you - nice work!) before it came to a halt at Worcester City, a 3-2 defeat. All home games.

That was the third qualifying round, so had you won you'd have been one game away from the promised land of the First Round. As you'd be the same ball number as Worcester, who beat Belper Town in the following round after a replay, you'd have drawn the mighty....

Rushden & Diamonds. Well, they were kinda mighty then, they were in their first season as a league club, and snaffled a 1-0 win.

St Blazey were in the tenth level of the league system at the time. Now they're in the tenth. How times change.

Fookin' 'ell. Cheers mate. I remember the last game and we were robbed by a terrible referee and quite a few injuries. I do remember beating Chippenham Town and it was a big win for us but I couldn't have told you who the other teams were or even what the scores were. We did have a very expensive squad at the time. Our striker was taking home £400 a game with goal bonuses and in that league - the Jewson South Western - that was big bucks as I was getting £120 a game and I wasn't a first choice that season. We had almost 1,000 at one of the matches and I'll never forget it. I've played at the New Den with Devon School Boys and also played at Plymouth Argyle in an under 16 cup final but it was pretty amazing to play in front of that many people when our average home crowd was around 50 blokes (who only went because we had a club house next to the pitch).

Nigel Martyn played for St Blazey (he wasn't there when I was).

I'm looking at their website at the moment and this bloke plays for them in defence

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:lol:

None more Cornish

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DeadRussian

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I've decided that the new Portland Timbers 3rd kit is the best kit I've seen in a while. It's totally retro, man. I look forward to seeing Kris Boyd waddling around aimlessly in it next month when the MLS starts up again.

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It'll take something special to topple this kit from the 1970's though. Let's give a big hand to the Colorado Caribous.

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Them's some tassels, motherfucker.

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Squigs

Squigs

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If we're posting kits...

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I had one but it went "missing"... I suspect my mum threw it away... :(

I still have that top somewhere. We went down to Nottingham with our high school football team, to see an England v Scotland U-16s game in which Joe Cole played. A group of us went to the Forest club shop and discovered they were having a clear-out, but they didn't have any home shirts left in our sizes. We all ended up buying the away shirt for a fiver, good times.

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glb

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Also that mexico keeper shirt is a godamn timeless classic and I frankly wont hear a word against it.

Of course, England did have a go at trying to out-kaleidoscope it, but sadly lacked stupendously jazzy zig-zags:

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And, yeah, the more I look at the Dundee kit, the more I think it's McRad.

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