Come On You Wands!

Just a little 'heads up' that I am introducing a new section to this site, called 'From the Archives' . I am currently sorting out all the Cray Wanderers matchday programmes in which my older articles appeared so that I can republish them on this site for all visitors to read. I think from memory that most of the articles are football-related, some are definitely Cray Wanderers-related and others are more generalised; in fact, everything is similar that's listed on the 'home' page but from previous times. Further details can be found by clicking on the new 'From the Archives' link in the main menu (above). Trevor Mulligan

When I was much younger, in the days when I couldn't attend the Cray Wanderers away games, we never had the internet. Nor did we have local radio stations like Radio Medway (which later morphed into Radio Kent). And that meant we couldn't follow each game on a Saturday afternoon via news bulletins or website updates. There were also no mobile phones or even their immediate predecessors the belt pagers. Unless I knew somebody who had attended an away game, and that was never too likely as a 12-year-old, just how did I learn of Cray's exploits 'on the road'? Well, it was my dad who first 'discovered' the way. He was looking at his Sunday newspaper the day after the Wands had played away to Met Police in the Metropolitan League. In fact, he was looking at the sports pages and, if anyone reading this knew my dad, you would know that the only reason he did that was to check the Pools numbers against his coupon. Other than that, he was not particularly a sporting ...