by Mick Fox | Apr 11, 2025 | Retro Red Devils
Each of these articles takes a good half day to produce – more when I get sidetracked reading the programmes or old press cuttings I am hoping to use as a basis for the piece. Either that, or I am sitting wondering what to write about as in most cases I have pretty...
by Mick Fox | Mar 21, 2025 | Retro Red Devils
We might have been bad last Saturday, but thanks to another cracking goal (we only score “worldies” unfortunately), this time from Ade Adeyemo, we did better than “The Gas” who lost 5-0 to Lincoln, so who knows what we will get this week, a 0-0 draw probably? I would...
by Mick Fox | Mar 5, 2025 | News, Retro Red Devils
I am starting this joint Reading and Charlton piece on the day after our fairly abject display against Cambridge United, when we seemed to approach a “must win” game as if it was an end-of-season stroll, particularly in the first half. Mind you, slow starts seem to...
by Mick Fox | Feb 28, 2025 | Retro Red Devils
I realise that many of our EFL opponents have “come up through the ranks”, as it were, from non-league football throughout the 20th century, but for the purposes of this and recent articles it is since our entry into semi-professional football as a Southern League...
by Mick Fox | Feb 13, 2025 | News, Retro Red Devils
With this burst of home games I decided to combine Wycombe and Wigan into one article, and throw in a bit of turmoil and dissent as well. Doing my research I have found more links between us and Wycombe than I thought existed, although even then I am not suggesting...