Welcome one and all to the latest edition of TLFG. The last week has been pretty quiet for me on the football front as I've worked late shifts from Tuesday through to today. In other words, I've seen no football but hopefully that will change in a couple of days with a lunchtime trip to Loftus Road to watch QPR play Bristol City in an U21 match. These games often closely resemble a trip to a county cricket match with mainly more senior people with time off in the week able to attend. I'm lucky enough to have a couple of friends who do shifts or have more flexible schedules so we get to enjoy s ..read more

Welcome to the latest edition of TLFG and apologies for its delayed publication. This is mainly down to my running of the Ealing Half Marathon on Sunday which takes up quite a lot of my time and energy (any donations to my chosen charity greatly appreciated). I was satisfied with my time but the highlight of the morning was being given a cheer of encouragement by race founder Kelvin Walker with just over two miles to go. He has done superb work over the years in getting this fabulous event set up and secured and I'd like to thank him here for all his efforts. He is also a regular reader of thi ..read more

Greetings everyone and welcome to the latest edition of TLFG. Sadly it's a very minimal effort at this stage with just the match maps for the week but I anticipate having some time tomorrow when I might be able to add some more detail. The main reason for this is that I've been given the opportunity to edit the Actonians programme for Wednesday's game against Chesham United which is being played at North Greenford United. Everything was going smoothly with interviews and features all fine but then it came to the stats documents on Excel. On Friday morning I ran to Dulwich Hamlet  ..read more

Greetings everyone and welcome to the latest edition of TLFG. How has your week been? Unbelievably, I made it to three games over the last few days and ticked off a new ground in the process. The first was on Tuesday lunchtime when I headed to Loftus Road to watch a very young QPR side get thrashed 6-0 by Sheffield United in a development match. Then on Wednesday night I made the short journey to the Quintin Hogg Memorial Ground in Chiswick to see Actonians Reserves take on Richmond & Kew in a London & South East Women's Regional League game. Despite making a disappointing start t ..read more

Welcome one and all to this week's TLFG. I'm going to begin by saying I think I'm actually shaking a little bit with excitement after Actonians recorded a spectacular 4-0 win over QPR in the women's West London Derby. As someone who lives in Shepherd's Bush and has supported QPR's men's team for over 40 years - this afternoon has left feeling a bit like Declan Rice. Sadly I couldn't go - I'm at work until after 11pm and I'm writing this on my break. With former A's boss Danny Harrigan returning as the new R's manager, there was even more anticipation than normal. Millwall host Luton in a ..read more

Welcome to this week's TLFG. I'm going to have to keep this a bit shorter than normal for now as my wife's laptop has failed and she's got to take mine on a work trip to Birmingham in the next few minutes. I've got full match maps and also previews up until Friday. From my own point of view, I made it to two of three games I had targeted last week - getting to the Actonians away games at London Bees and AFC Sudbury which were both new venues for me. The FA Youth Cup continues this week  Saturday's trip to watch Harrow Borough at Metropolitan Police was a step too far and it's a b ..read more

The bank holiday weekend is over and by the end of this week, we'll be into September - where did the summer go?! So how has your week been? Did you do a double on Monday? Since an enjoyable trip to St Neots last Sunday, I've endured a barren spell as I've worked pretty constantly since then. Overall, my teams had a pretty decent weekend. Harrow Borough impressed the most. After the disappointment of losing their FA Cup replay at Ashford United on Tuesday, they recovered to beat Guernsey 3-0 in the Channel Islands before a fine derby win over Uxbridge by the same scoreline on Monday. Two ..read more

Greetings one and all and welcome to TLFG's August Bank Holiday Special! As a result of there being on a national holiday on the 26th, this week's blog runs through until next Monday. At this point I've written previews up until Friday and I'll then aim to add more ahead of the weekend. One of the reasons I haven't been able to devote hours and hours to writing today is the fact that I've been on the road with Actonians watching their season opener against Cambridge United in the FAWNL. New boss Oliver Yazdi took his Actonians side to Cambridge United on Sunday Last season, the U's be ..read more

Greetings one and all and welcome to the latest edition of TLFG. My work schedule is heavy this weekend so I'm putting something out early so you can plan your week. It's fairly comprehensive with full match maps and previews up until Friday - I'll try to get some weekend previews up by Thursday. As some of you know, I work on the railway and I'm sad to report that over the last three days I've had to file two police reports about disorder committed by youths against other passengers on my trains. To put it in context, I've probably only involved the police three times in the previous 12 years ..read more

Evening all and apologies for the late publication of this week's piece. I'm on holiday in Dublin and simply haven't had the time to write until now.  As a result, it's just going to be match maps from me and no recommendations. I have enjoyed some football during my time in the Irish capital but not the sort I'm used to. On Sunday my daughter and I got taken by my wife's cousin to Croke Park to watch the final of the women's All-Ireland Gaelic football final between Galway and Kerry. Galway took on Kerry in Sunday's final My daughter is actually an Irish citizen courtesy of ha ..read more