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/ 2 weeks agoSteve Hill: Don’t be sad, be grateful!
“Burke’s gone”. Two words on my phone that transformed a normal Thursday evening into a JFK moment.
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/ 5 months agoSteve Hill: The cure for winter blues
For better or worse, football is one of the few outdoor sports that is played in all seasons, providing a challenge...
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/ 9 months agoSTEVE HILL: It’s all thanks to the smock
Don't call it a comeback. I’m not sure how this has happened, but it appears to have been 30 long weeks...
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/ 12 months agoSteve Hill: Manxmen put on a summer show for fans to savour
Steve Hill takes in the Isle of Man Football Festival.
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/ 2 years agoSTEVE HILL: Don’t you just love the FA Cup!
They say magic isn’t real, but a man put his hand in a velvet bag and 12 days later I was...
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/ 2 years agoSTEVE HILL: Footy fest is pure TV gold!
“Without going out of your door, you can know all things on earth.” George Harrison may have had more transcendental matters...
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/ 2 years agoSTEVE HILL: Great to be back on the road
Hello, it’s good to be back. I don’t mean me – although it has been a while – but the football...
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/ 2 years agoSTEVE HILL: Bad to much worse
The universe is ruled by chance and indifference. As to a certain extent are the play-offs, a heady mix of fortune...
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/ 2 years agoSTEVE HILL: I’m so in love with loanees
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” wrote Shakespeare. Easily said, but Shakespeare didn’t have to find 11 fit bodies for...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: TV gold from my armchair!
The last time I graced these pages was to berate the winter World Cup and its devastating impact on the domestic...
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/ 3 years agoSteve Hill: I’ve been forced into a club versus country conundrum
Steve HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS If you’re reading this on Sunday morning, I don’t know how you can concentrate. Knees trembling,...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: There was no excuse to miss this one
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to support a football club. Globally,...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: A cup salute to Deva divas
I’M walking away from all the troubles in my life. Of course I’m not, but the concept was recently discussed in...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: A game for the purists
A Liverpool fan recently asked me what team I support. Truthfully replying “Chester” I was greeted by that familiar look of...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: Mainly downs but the odd up
I WAS once advised to enjoy the cyclical nature of football. Wise words, but they provided scant consolation as I drove...
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/ 3 years agoSteve Hill: A match made in Hollywood
You couldn’t make it up. It’s a phrase that is tossed around football commentary with aplomb, despite the fact that you...
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/ 3 years agoSteve Hill: No match is meaningless
What possesses a man to travel the length and breadth of the country for a meaningless football match?
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: It’s more than just a stadium
NOSTALGIA is a thing of the past, and home is where the heart is. But what if that home is dismantled...
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/ 3 years agoSteve Hill: A story every way you turn
During extended periods of no football, the mind can wander. Finding myself without a game after Chester’s home fixture was postponed...
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/ 3 years agoSTEVE HILL: We live life on the edge
In the year of Our Lord 1536, a man drew an imaginary line across a field. It probably wasn’t his intention,...
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/ 4 years agoSteve Hill: Like Father, like Son!
I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Not my words, reader, the...
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/ 4 years agoSteve Hill: Some things don’t change
WHEN you live 200 miles from the ground you watch your football, every game is an away day – but home...
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/ 4 years agoSTEVE HILL: Reliving FA Cup glory – and the pain!
Steve HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS FA CUP BRINGS MAGIC & MISERY BAGS OF POTENTIAL: As a long-suffering fan of Chester, just...
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/ 4 years agoSTEVE HILL: It’s like we never went away!
HAVING whipped myself into a frenzy of anticipation in my last column, the opening day curse struck again: Chester v Curzon...
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/ 4 years agoSteve Hill: It’s time to fill my boots!
This time next week, results will be in. Win or lose, we’ll have some booze; if we draw, we’ll have some...