Historical Crossroads Tamworth has stood at a crossroads throughout the centuries. Romans settled there, as did the Angles, morphing into Mercia's capital where Offa was the main man. The Peninsula H...

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I’m sat at my laptop on a rainy Sunday lunchtime still trying to distil yesterday into a cogent narrative. Every time I try to get some thoughts down, something else pops into my head. ADHD or BAFC? A...

A Different Kind of Training Day Barrow AFC mascot Bluey joined local teachers and club staff in a training day with a difference as part of the Barrow 125 initiative. Walking the Heritage Trail The t...

A jaunt out to Worthing via the capital on Saturday greeted me with a difficult decision. Am I to venture into the Midlands, following our Jekyll and Hyde display at the weekend? ​Well aye, hence why ...

The story this ballad will tell Began quite remarkably well Though a gruelling away Was a pretty good day With a sudden descent into hell. It began in the deep of the night, From DAZN's stupid schedul...

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The journey itself, however, was pleasant enough. A stupidly cheap first-class upgrade later, I arrived in the eternal confusional vortex of Birmingham New Street, then onward. Kiddy. A very similar size of town, carpets rather than the nation’s nuclear deterrent providing the bedrock. Perennial non-leaguers, but with a foray into the Football League. Very, very odd and unintelligible accent. Still, we weren’t short of inexplicably odd behaviour, especially when one of our number appeared to enj

Friend of the fanzine, Seb White pens a love letter to Sam Foley, midfield maestro, cult hero, and a player who always gives it everything. The WhatsApp notification pings and my good mate Jonny says...

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If you were unfortunate enough to suffer a medical episode that meant you were in a coma for the past twelve months, you would be forgiven for thinking that nothing has changed. Barrow playing away fr...

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Hope, football, and ‘Meet the Board’ nights spring eternal. As the faithful, sceptical, and hopeful gathered, we wondered how this one would come across. That’s not to imply any lack of sincerity, jus...

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“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” Radcliffe away pre-seaso...

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Got Barrow AFC memories gathering dust somewhere in the back of your mind? A story about a goal, a game, or a goalkeeper that you've been dining out on for decades? A moment that meant everything to y...

I was 19 years old when we were drawn away to Dover in the FA Trophy quarter final. We didn't know it at the time, but we were rapidly approaching the end of the Vaughan era. He was getting his collar...

To celebrate the 35-year anniversary of our FA Trophy win, we wanted to share online the recent fanzine article where Phil Mc gives us a heartfelt journey through that triumph and the unsung heroes wh...

Forty-five minutes. Two thousand seven hundred seconds. That's allegedly how much time Paul Hornby had to celebrate our promotion back to the EFL until Bolton made the first phone enquiry for Evatt. T...

So it was to an industrial estate adjacent to a Tyne and Wear metro station named after the venerable Bede (not to be anal, but it's more towards Jarrow than South Shields itself) that a cursed 2025-2...

I know… I KNOW. It's just a small town's football team going from one place to another. Hardly more than a footnote in the local news. Ten seconds of faux concern on North-West Tonight. A blip on an a...

Barrow succumbed to a miserable defeat against Cambridge United which, when combined with Bobby Kamwa's 108th minute winner for Newport County against Oldham Athletic, meant our final day remit agains...

"Hello, yes, do come in. Mind the step. Just grab a seat on the couch. Or take the chair if you'd prefer a more upright experience, only the springs have gone a bit on the left side, so forewarned is ...

Is it the hope that kills you or the knowledge that it’s the hope that kills you, that kills you? As I sit here trying to compose my thoughts, the nicotine of football coursing through my veins, I’m t...

The Hive London is a football centre near Edgware, London, offering football pitches for hire, conference and banqueting facilities, an on-site gym, cafe, bar and more. It was built on the former site...