NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 1011 TELFORD UNITED – 2 [Martindale 34p, 69] SUTTON UNITED – 0 Well, where do you start? At the beginning I s’pose. Sutton United all but surrendered their Nationwide Conference status at Telford’s Bucks Head ground on Saturday, turning in quite possibly one of the most toothless performances I can remember […]
Tag: Season 1999/2000
Relegation 6-Pointer No 39 In A Series of 42
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 985 SUTTON UNITED – 1 [Forrester 78] WOKING – 1 [Steele 85] Blah blah blah relegation 6 pointer blah blah blah must win blah blah blah didn’t. Well you know the story by now. As the title says, we congregated at GGL for yet another game we had to win to […]
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90 Down, 90 To Go
FA TROPHY SEMI-FINAL 1st Leg Att: 2384 Sutton United – 1 [Winston 4] Kingstonian – 1 [Harris 78] Well, we’d waited all week for it and when it arrived, we spent most of it shitting ourselves. We’re a strange bunch eh? I for one wasn’t confident how this one would go. Some felt […]
Dealing (with) The Cards
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 2100 WOKING – 1 [Akrour 49] SUTTON UNITED – 2 [Winston (Pen)51, Watson 53] So, to our umpteenth relegation six-pointer of the season. But with a twist this time. Spoiler alert: We won this one!! A decent performance from the U’s (at last!) got its just reward with an much needed […]
Rushden University of Football. Third & Final Lesson
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 2749 RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS – 4 [Butterworth 5, Burgess 39, Peters 51, Lowe 83] SUTTON UNITED – 0 Well, that’s more like it eh? Just 4 days after dumping ol’ Rushden out of the FA Trophy on their own patch, we return to eek out our now familiar 90 minute long 3-points-surrendering […]
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U’s Polish Off Rough Diamonds
FA TROPHY QUARTER FINAL Replay – 14/3/2000 Att: 2785 Rushden & Diamonds – 1 [O.G. 86] Sutton United – 3 [Winston 35, Newhouse 55 Ekoku 67] Well bugger me. I’m not quite sure exactly where to start with this one! We all expected a bumming, but what we got was the […]
That’s Knackered It
FA TROPHY QUARTER FINAL Att: 1586 Sutton United – 1 [Winston 12] Rushden & Diamonds – 1 [Rodwell 13] What a shit draw eh? The ONE side we said we DIDN’T want in this FA Trophy Quarter Final was Conference champions elect and massive moneybags, Rushden. So, who do we get. Rushden of course! […]
We’re Grim Oop North
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 889 ALTRINCHAM – 3 [Timmons 46, Ellison 49, Russell 83] SUTTON UNITED – 0 Match Reporter: Chalmers Unfortunately, due to the other half’s birthday, ‘Ol Taz was unable to attend Sutton’s umpteenth relegation six pointer of this campaign. So, for the first time since October, Match report duties fell to fellow […]
Wembley Bound?
FA TROPHY 5th ROUND Att: 1200 Sutton United – 2 [Winston 13, Newhouse 86] Dover Athletic – 1 [Le Bihan 40] This is getting a little out of hand. Whilst we languish at the bottom of the Conference, barely able to muster a goal let alone beat another bloody side, the FA Trophy […]
Oh We Don’t Like To Be Beside The Seaside
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE Att: 1395 SCARBOROUGH – 3 [Tate 10,90 McNiven 42] SUTTON UNITED – 0 The longest trip available to us in the Conference and we just had this feeling that like many others, it would produce sod all reward for our presently Ryman bound heroes. We passed the time on the way up […]