The View from the Bar And welcome to my new column. Well, that’s what it feels like, anyway. I almost feel like I need to reintroduce myself, but hopefully some of you can actually think back to the heady days of mid-October when I last made it to a game. Or wrote a column, comeRead More
The View from the Bar I hate missing games, but today I’ll be absent from Westwood, unfortunately. And this promises to be a game not to miss, too. But I’ll get onto that in a minute. First up, the next batch of match posters are out today, so if you normally collect one or moreRead More
The View from the Bar For crying out loud, this is about the sixth time I’ve started writing these notes. I’m finding it hard to strike the right balance between a respectful reflection on the events of Wednesday night, and the deep-ingrained urge to just right a page full of hahahahahahaha and not much else.Read More
The View from the Bar It’s with no small sense of trepidation that I write these notes today. I often start with a blank sheet and not the faintest idea what I’m going to write about, and sometimes it’s like pulling teeth filling the page, but I don’t often approach the task with actual trepidation.Read More
The View from the Bar For Cowes fans of a certain age the F.A. Vase holds a definite allure. Catch them right, more often than not over a pint of mild in the club, and you can guarantee they’ll go all misty-eyed and start reminiscing about the great Vase runs of yonder year. And I’mRead More
The View from the Bar We haven’t had a whole lot of luck in the Wessex League Cup over the years, with the notable exception of 1999. Twenty years ago? Where did that time go? Back in the days when every round (bar the final was a two-legged affair, and we managed to make itRead More
The View from the Bar Art’noon! Now, as I write, it’s half-past midnight on Friday night and I haven’t got the faintest idea what I’m going to write about. It happens like that sometimes. A page doesn’t seem like much to fill, until you can’t think of anything to fill it with, and then itRead More
The View from the Bar Art’noon all. So here we go again, as our home league campaign gets underway for another season. And we’re not off to a bad start, with three points from our opening two away fixtures. If memory serves me, we had a pretty successful start to last season too… what couldRead More
The View from the Bar At last! The football season’s back, so we can all stop fretting about the country going to pot and the impending climate disaster and start enjoying life again. Or being grumpy for different reasons, at the very least. I didn’t get to see much of our pre-season action, but thereRead More
The View from the Bar Lots to write about today, best crack on… Firstly, what an amazing day last Saturday! In 35+ years supporting Cowes there’s been plenty of memorable occasions, but the Portchester match is right up there, and what a way to secure our Premier Division survival, with a last-minute equaliser inRead More
