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I'm taking a break from writing the frankly stupendous chapter about [spoiler redacted] - you'll never believe who [spoiler] [verbs]!

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10.14 - Grindhog Day

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"Watch out for th

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10.13 - Gateshead Revisited

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Part One - Et in Man

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10.12 - The Thrill of the Chase

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Saturday, March 29

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10.11 - Emlyn Hughes International Soccer

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Player Profile: Emlyn Hugh

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10.10 - The Rock

 

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Thursday, March

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Chapter Tomorrow

Hi!

I just finished the first draft of the next chapter. It's a bit longer than the breezy weekend chapter I was plotting - 13,000 words already. I'll keep working on it tonight, polish tomor...

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10.9 - The Prisoner

[Bit of a beefy boy, this. If you don't get

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10.8 - How to Tame Your Dragon

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Football glossary: Well in. Praise for a good piece of play. Good job! Well played! Works best when shouted or when there's grunted vibrato on the second word. "<...

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10.7 - Bodycam

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Sunday, February 23

 

The latest blog post from News of the Blues, the leading news and views platform for all things Chester FC.

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10.6 - Keep It Simple, Seals

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Thursday, February 20

Double training is normally used as a punishment. The lads lost four-nil at home? Midfield didn't run hard enough? Defenders were out of position? Do...

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10.5 - Whiplash

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Football glossary: To w

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10.4 - One Man Banned

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After beating Eastleigh, Emma and I went eastly (lol) to spend a day and a half with TJ and his latest girlfriend in Crawley. We very much didn't talk about the sh...

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10.3 - Gemini

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"Geminis are agents of chan

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10.2 - I Came In Like A Wrexham Ball

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Tuesday, 21 January

Match 24 of 46: Chester vs FC Halifax

After studying our remaining fixtures from all kinds of angles, I decided to spend five hu...

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10.1 - The Cambrian Explosion

Player Manager 10

 

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The story so far:

Max Best, player-manager of Chester FC's men's team, has assembled a talented squad that sits nint...

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He Writes Rewrites On the Sea Shore

Heeyyyy.

Couple of quick notes.

1. I did a rewrite of some troublesome book 9 scenes and added in a bit more stuff about the takeover. Not loads, and mostly not in Max's POV because he'...

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9.13 - Epilogue

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"Before you pawn off the family silver to buy your dream defender," murmured Sandra, pulling me into a dark crevice behind the stage, "let's do a concussion protocol."

I ...

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9.12 - All Or Nothing

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It wasn't supposed to be l

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9.11 - They Think It's All Over

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Football glossary: "They think it's all over!" Part of Kenneth Wolstenholme's iconic commentary from the 1966 World Cup Final.

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Friday, January 17

"I thoug...

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9.10 - Plymouth Argyle

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Extract from the voluminous first draft sent to the editor of The First Footballer In Space: The Pascal Bochum Story, Volume 3

 

Chapter Ten

&...

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9.9 - Merry Kisimas

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Dear Dani,

I'm your Secr

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9.8 - The Lone Star State

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Monday, December 9

FA Youth Cup Third Round: Chelsea Under Eighteens vs Chester Under Eighteens

It was dead on four hours from the Deva to Kingsmead...

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9.7 - The Talented Mr. Replay

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Tuesday, November 19

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9.6 - Copium

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Glossary: copium. A self-presc

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Bit Sick Soz

Hey, can't write today so no chapter tomorrow. I need to stay under the blanket and eat ice cream and with any luck I'll be all right tomorrow.

Also I got the name of the next chapter wrong. ...

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9.5 - With Ball Without Ball (Part Two)

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Football glossary: replay. A r

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9.4 - With Ball Without Ball (Part One)

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Monday, October 28

It was a foul morning in the north east, the kind where cats sit on windowsil...

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9.3 - The Long Way Round Part Two

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Monday, October 14

FA Youth Cup Third Qualifying Round: Chester Under Eighteens vs Walsham-le-Willows F.C. Under Eighteens

One artefact of what we m...

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9.2 - The Long Way Round (Part One)

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Saturday, October 12

FA Cup Fourth Round Qualifying: Chester vs Mousehole

I was mostly kitted out and ready. It would take me all of ten seconds to ...

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