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Steve Hill: Hilly’s Away Days – Caught in the twilight zone
96, 93, 95, 94, 97, 94, 97. Not next week’s lottery numbers but a selection of this season’s goal times involving my team, Chester.
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/ 4 months agoSteve Hill: The Northern lights await
Show me the way to Merthyr Tydfil…” This is how my teenage son woke up the day after Chester’s devastating extra time playoff defeat at Scunthorpe back in May, belting out a broadside despite the...
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/ 6 months 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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/ 7 months agoWE’VE ALL GOT PLAY-OFF FEVER
Steve HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS LAPPING IT UP: Chester players and fans enjoy their play-off semi-final at Kidderminster PICTURE: Rick Matthews Cup Fever is a well-documented ailment, but did you ever catch a dose of...
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/ 10 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 to players and supporters alike.
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/ 1 year 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 since my last column.
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/ 1 year 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 agoWe fans love a good moan
STEVE HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS According to a recent imaginary survey, at least 90 per cent of supporting a football club involves moaning. As visitors to Woking’s Kingfield Stadium will attest, this trait is knowingly...
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/ 2 years agoBlues win is perfect present
Steve HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS CHRISTMAS is the curse of the Decemberist’s birthday. With our lord and saviour hogging much of the limelight, those of us who share his birth month tend to get lost...
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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 250 miles away eating a fish.
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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 in mind, but in many ways the meditative moptop could have been singing about...
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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 season and hence the welcome resumption of normal service. Despite decades of practice, football’s...
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/ 3 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 and fortitude.
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/ 3 years agoEIGHT FANS GIVEN BLUES BANS
Steve HILL EIGHT football fans have been issued with indefinite club bans from Chester FC following the crowd disorder which marred the club’s National League North play-off semi-final with Brackley Town last Sunday. Cheshire Police...
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/ 3 years agoJOY OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE
Steve HILL HILLY’S AWAY DAYS Can I just shock you? I like football. Or do I? I numbly watch practically every televised match and get to as many Chester games as I can. But as...
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/ 3 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 a gruelling two games per week schedule with nary a pot to pass water...
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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 calendar. Hypocritically, I have of course watched every match so far, on occasion while...
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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, pacing up and down, mere hours away from The Greatest Show On Earth™. It...
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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 disbelief, pity and disgust, with no further questions proffered, as if he had perhaps...
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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 myself and The Boy from London to Alfreton for Chester’s season opener a couple...
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/ 3 years agoHILLY’S AWAY DAYS: Giving it the big ‘un
A RARE joy to be back at the National Game Awards a few weeks ago, the first time I’d seen anyone involved with this fine organ in three long years.
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/ 3 years agoAnalyst Kieran lands his big chance
PERFORMANCE analyst Kieran Stephens is well used to running the rule over young footballers – but this time it’s his own efforts that have come under the spotlight.
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/ 4 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 can of course make anything up.
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/ 4 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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/ 4 years agoCHANGE IS BEST FOR THE SOUTH & WEST
Steve HILL By Matt Badcock THE Football Association have announced a period of consultation on a proposal to adjust the structure at Step 5 and 6 in the south west. The Western League and South...
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