“Experimental trio from Borehamwood: Hall, Stairs and Landing; they’re really good”
So… what do we know about Borehamwood?
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The A to Z of HMHB
“Experimental trio from Borehamwood: Hall, Stairs and Landing; they’re really good”
So… what do we know about Borehamwood?
EXXO
As well as the experimental trio up front, Tranmere will have to face a midfield duo of Golden Jaguars next season. Grr, scary.
Not too many sleeps now till the fixtures come out. Can’t wait.
2 June 2015
EXXO
Notice that even that article got it wrong. They must despair.
2 June 2015
EXXO
In fact no, the football club based in Borehamwood are indeed called Boreham Wood,
so desperation, if there is any, would be purely self-inflicted.
[and we can assume that the experimental trio are from the place and not just from somewhere else playing for the football team so phew, eh?]
2 June 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
I can’t imagine that the players at a Tier 5 club have the time to form an experimental trio, so I’m more than happy to concur with your assumption.
3 June 2015
Gordo
they were tier 6 and part-time up until a few weeks ago so it’s not impossible …..
3 June 2015
Bobby SVARC
Thought you were a koppite, Exxo?.
3 June 2015
EXXO
Long time since I could afford to go much though, whereas there’s a few grounds in the conference round here that I’d like to see Tranmere at.
A few years ago I was asked to write something for a Tranmere v. Liverpool match programme about being a bit of a ‘Red Rover’. Here’s an excerpt:
When all is said and done, my heart is Red. But I was taken to Prenton Park on Fridays for many years before I was ever able to get across the river to Anfield. It was at Prenton Park that I first laid eyes on some of my red heroes in the flesh: Bill Shankly, a frequent visitor, as well as Ian St. John, Ron Yeats, Peter Thompson, and various other ex-LFC veterans who passed through the ranks at Rovers. I didn’t start going across to Anfield on my own till my pocket money went up in 1977, after which I became as regular a Kopite as I could…
I’m happy, for the sake of the Rovers, that there’s no way today that you can maintain credibility if you tell your mates that you support Tranmere and another ‘Big club’ on Merseyside ! But I’m even happier that in my day, you could, and most of us did! Why else were nearly all the home games back then scheduled for Friday nights?
And anyway (if my team-mates when I’m training with my own club in Leeds still don’t get it), I sometimes just like wearing a shirt with my “WIRRAL” origins proudly emblazoned on the front.
I’m sure you get it Mick – Leicester and a bit of Nuneaton on the side, sort of thing.
3 June 2015
bobby svarc
Nice one, Codder was my hometown club and were always my other team, I moved from Nuneaton at a young age, in the sixties and seventies the town had a massive Leicester following so it was easy to follow both clubs, the problem came along with automatic promotion of course, it will never happen but I would hate to see Leicester v Nuneaton in a meaningful match.
Rovers will find it tough this year especially with the one automatic promo place to play for, Grimsby are a classic example. Nuneaton may get Rovers in the FA Trophy of course, Neil would be pleased if it’s away as he could kill two birds with one stone and visit Bosworth Battlefield.
4 June 2015
Vše co chci k Vánocům je venkovní dres Dukly Praha
I like the way the article is slightly ambiguous about whether the two forthcoming internationals are against the same team twice or two different teams. Not that it will make much difference to the BWFC duo… they’re used to playing Tooting and Mitcham…
8 June 2015
EXX0
Today’s attendance at home against the league leaders* – 647 with 313 from the away side.
Can’t see them following their fellow ‘Bore’ town and doing a Bournemouth, can you?
* Who I seem to recall after a slow start were tipped on here for the title at 15/1 ( e/w quarter odds for 1,2,3)
9 January 2016
EXXo
Thank you Boreham Wood, what a trio, and thank you kids in Aldershot. Season still alive.
28 March 2016
Bobby SVARC
My mate was a camera man at Kiddy today.
28 March 2016
Bobby SVARC
Shite, Wrexham shafted my acca and did you no favours today Exxo.
28 March 2016
EXXo
Keeps it interesting, but after Friday (hosting Grimsby), Cheltenham’s run-in is easier.
I hope they don’t do it ‘cos I was utterly skint when I tipped them at 15/1. Amazing to think that was 1/4 odds for top 3 finish.
Ah well nevermind I had a nice little FGS double in the Tranny & Chester matches.
28 March 2016
EXXO
The mighty ‘Wood got lucky with the fixtures on the final day and just about stayed up, with all the PBR teams bunched up in the mathematically safe zone. The addition of York of course will mean Tranmere play a record 5 different PBR teams next season as well as retaining their 3 local derbies. Happy days, with hopefully a new series of ‘Rock Ferry Watch’ starting any time now.
1 May 2016
EXXO
There are some fleeting moments that you wish you could just wrap in clingfilm and keep in the freezer compartment forever. This can apply of course especially to league tables at the start of the season. So while it lasts…
Tranmere Rovers 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5 9 WWW
Boreham Wood 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 7 DWW
Solihull Moors 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 7 WDW
Lincoln City 3 2 0 1 10 5 +5 6 LWW
Gateshead 3 2 0 1 6 1 +5 6 LWW
I’m sure you’ll all agree that it would be best to start the build-up to tomorrow’s potential title-deciding top, top of the table clash right now. Can’t help noticing by the way that if you pronounce Boreham Wood’s latest exotic attacking duo right, it sounds like an experimental trio (Bruno Andrade and Balanta)
Early test for the ephemera thread this.
15 August 2016
EXXO
Eastenders, Top of the Pops, ‘Allo ‘Allo!, You Rang, M’Lord?, Grange Hill, Hangar 17, Holby City. The Voice, That Norman bastard off Pointless, etc etc YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING (well on Radio Merseyside it sounded more convincing than the 0-1 scoreline suggests).
16 August 2016
bent as a badgers bum
A deserved win – though another game where the officials were a noticeable part of the game.
As for Borehamwood – a town of two halves, a post war housing estate built North of the High Road and South of the High Road, a post war housing estate.
17 August 2016
dirk hofman
.. Borehamwood, three words to describe the acting in EastEnders and the site of Elstree studios, where a double decker bus has hit the railway bridge on Bridge Street. Characters on a stopped tube were heard to blame some thoughtless so and so who had thrown themselves in front of the train ..
25 January 2017
chris boardman
Horrible place. When the embers of Enfield FC (RIP) were still just about glowing we had to go there a couple of times. Nasty people the wrong side of Barnet – which is like being from the wrong side of Pyongyang or Magaluf.
11 April 2017
EXXO
Bruno Andrade still banging them in, one notices. With seconds to go last night Boreham Wood FC had made it into provisional second place, till the kids in Aldershot and Sutton both scored very, very late goals.
Was very aware of all this, as I listened in to live commentary from Tranmere, where a mighty gathering of 7,000 home fans had hoped to close the gap on the luck-laden leaders to one little point, but the 400 Macc lads & lasses went home with a seven-point gap after some jaw-dropping swings and roundabouts of outrageous fortune.
Looks like the play-offs again then.
21 February 2018
EXXO
Only team in the top six to win, so leap-frog Tranmere into 3rd. Not yet snotty enough to be called a bogey team, but you could imagine it going that way.
Bookies’ favourites to be the only place mentioned on two consecutive albums.
17 March 2018
BOBBYSVARC
I thought Dover would beat Macc as well.
17 March 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
I really hope they get to Wembley just to see how many they take (unless it’s Rovers in the semi, obviously). 450 home fans turned up today to see them consolidate their play-off place.
Meanwhile Bruno Andrade was 11/10 to score against Chester 😀
14 April 2018
EXXO
If you have a Betfred account, their odds on Morgan Ferrier to score tonight for the ‘Wood are wrong 3/1 for the in-form striker, and he’s scored in 4 of his last 5 games, which normally would mean evens to score any time tonight. KO 7.45
Come on Fylde!
3 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Tonight’s attendance 1,244 (136 away). Utterly pathetic. Like I say I hope they get to Wembo, hopefully v. Rovers, just to see how many they can take.
3 May 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Borehamwood it is then, I hope it’s not a case deja vu, small club with poor support. Looking forward to the game though, it should be really good.
6 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
So Mr. B walks reluctantly down Wemberley Way today for one of the biggest in Tranmere’s history and certainly the biggest game in Boreham Wood’s. When he first mentioned the place in his lyrics , the ‘Wood were 2 divisions away from Tranmere. Less than a year later, the upstarts from Herts were winning a league match at Prenton Park on the same miserable day that (as Mr. B told us on stage) his faithful old dog died. Since then honours have been even … 2 wins each, 2 draws. There really isn’t much difference in the sum total of ability within these two teams and the 15/8 available (from Betway) on the boys from Britain’s Hollywood to be promoted seems irresistible.
But may the force be with our lads from the Oblong of Dreams.
The Rovers! (clap, clap, clap) The Rovers! (clap, clap, clap)
12 May 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Forest Green, Boreham Wood. Oh dear I fear the worst
12 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
And after only one minute you’d be down to ten men
‘Cos he’d sent off your left back for taking the base from under his right winger
12 May 2018
Warden
Cooky,!!
12 May 2018
BOBBY SVARC
In the shyt, 1-1, Down to 10, All Subs used.
12 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Ha,Rovers take the lead with 9 mins left…and they’ve got 4 ball boys on duty in the whole of all the empty stands of Wemberley.. wonder how much of that time the ball spends in the stands and down the tunnel.
12 May 2018
Gok wan acolyte
2-1 Tranmere, 6 mins to hold on…
12 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Gerrin there. Cook and Norwood carry Tranmere through after playing 10 men against 12 for 90 mins. Tranmere’s first promotion for 27 years. 27 years – where did that go?
12 May 2018
BOBBY SVARC
Going for the double now then Exxo
12 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Course this means that Mr. B gets his first chance to swerve the Checkatrade in just about 13 weeks from now.
12 May 2018
Warden Hodges
Plus they’ll avoid the tiresome Class of 92 Salford City.
12 May 2018
BOBBY SVARC
I think I saw Neil in the crowd
12 May 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
True. Though I would have enjoyed watching Rovers at Harrogate, if they can win their National League North final at home tomorrow.
Jees the play-offs can be cruel though – Dartford another classic example in National League South, missing out on their league title on goal difference and losing to a team that was about 17 points behind them.
I’ll be calling Borehamwood ‘Bottlywood’ from now on. Hope their owners get bored and the club will now fade away into obscurity along with the likes of Eastleigh. Amongst other names that hopefully will never darken our doorstep again.
12 May 2018
Paul f
Barry Glendenning can be a right miserable twat in the Guardian website, but even he seems to have been cheered up by Rovers’ efforts this afternoon:
“Mellon could be seen exhorting the supporters from his technical area and they responded by ramping the volume up to a Spinal Tap-esque 11.”
12 May 2018
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Seem to have renamed themselves Brexit Wood if this rather odd piece from their website is not a wind-up https://www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk/uncategorized/mps-do-your-duty/
15 January 2019
EXXO
Best response was from Barrow AFC fan who said “it already takes us 8 hours to get to Dover Athletic even without the lorry jams.”
16 January 2019
Geoff Unlikely
It’s a very strange place Borehamwood (either spelling of the name is acceptable). 2nd and 3rd generation cockney exiles. A sort of white van man colony. But here’s the thing, it blends into older, more picturesque, wealthier Elstree. Home to Jewish professionals who work in the City, millionaire hairdressers, cricket commentators and minor Arsenal players. Those who live and die by the ‘Wood loathe Elstree, although it’s impossible to say where one ends and the other begins. Not least because the most famous thing in Borehamwood is called Elstree Studios. So famous it got its own Buggles song.
9 March 2020
Pirx The Purist
Old joke:
Q: What’s the quickest way to Borehamwood?
A: Tell them all about your holiday.
9 March 2020