14.8 - The Last Dance
8.
"Why would I think abou
2025-02-21 19:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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14.7 - End to End
7.
Football glossary: End-to-end football. A period in a game characterised by high levels of chance creation at alternating ends of the pitch. 'It's like watching basketball!' A reminder that an end is one side of the stadium. Famous footballing ends include the Stretford End (Manchester United), the Gallowgate End (Newcastle), and the bellend (Luis Suarez).
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End To End Football is a website dedicated to the football stadiums of the United Kingdom a...
2025-02-17 13:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post14.3 - The Jaws of Victory
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Sporting glossary: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Somehow conspiring to fail when everything seemed to be going well.
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Thursday, July 9
UEFA Conference League Qualifiers Match 1 of ?: Progres Niederkorn versus College 1975
A day of firsts started with my first ever flight on a chartered plane. Mateo had decided that the extra expense was worth it and it was hard to argue. It woul...
2025-02-03 13:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post14.2 - The Maxnificent Seven
2.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
I crashed into the saloon; everyone turned to look at me. The pianist stopped playing, the barman thought to himself, 'here's trouble.' No-one went for their shooter - good. No need for bloodshed today.
I spat on the wooden floor and moseyed on over to a table at the back.
"Howdy, pardners," I said.
"Hi, Max, how you doing?" said Rachel, wife of Mateo. "You look well!"
I chewed on my tobacco and spat anoth...
2025-01-31 12:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post[Patreon-only Bonus] Book 13 Epilogue to the Epilogue
[T2 readers reading this on March 3 2025 - no chapter this Friday!]
Hey! Got you a present.
It's multimedia so I can't drop it on Patreon itself.
Make sure your volume is ON and click the play icons to summon the videos if you see blank spaces where a video would go.
https://ted-steel.com/bonus13/
Enjoy!
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If you missed the previous bonus, it came after book 7 (af...
2025-01-20 11:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post13.16 - Epilogue
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Mid May, 2026
Emma drove us to south Manchester while I chose the tunes. The first few songs were upbeat bangers that gave a sense of propulsion and fun. Holiday Road and Happy into Highway Star. I planned a controlled descent from there to The Stone Roses, but ended up letting The Black Keys play.
I closed my eyes and reflected.
My 2025-2026 season was over. Had it ...
2025-01-17 13:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Tuesday
Hey, sorry for this but it's 3 am and I'm only about 70% of the way through the next chapter. Let's pop it back a day so I can do it properly.
I know this has been happening a lot recently but I got the idea for the concept fairly late. The idea is an absolute banger. Just incredibly satisfying, to me at least. Whether I can do it justice is another question but I'd like a bit of time to cook on this particular one.
Tuesday morning without fail!
2025-01-13 01:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post13.14 - Application Forum
14.
Monday, April 20
Transcript of the Chester Fans Trust End of Season Special Meeting
On stage: Boggy (Seals Live host and lifelong Chester fan); Max Best (Director of Football, player, brat.)
Boggy: Okay, ready to start. Max, we're on video and we have to assume children are watching.
Max: Go to bed you little shits.
[Audience: laughter.]
Boggy: Max, please.
Max: No, you're right. Which camera i...
2025-01-10 15:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Tomorrow
Hi all,
Over the weekend I had to finish the proofs of book 6 for the publishers, plus I'm generally just a fraction behind and out of sync at the mo. I will have a good draft ready by tonight but then I want to get cheeky and add a few more [chapter titles] in.
You'll understand what I mean pretty quickly. Don't expect a mammoth chapter but sometimes small ones are more juicy.
Hasta manana!
2025-01-06 11:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post13.12 - Sing When You're Winning
12.
Welcome to Wrexham is a good show. Some 'proper football men' don't like what they call the Disneyfication of the sport: chopping it into bits and rearranging it to make it palatable to a wider audience, setting it to sappy music, cutting to shots of Ryan Reynolds looking sad and empathetic.
My take was that viewers would come for the fun underdog story, stay for the characters, and a year later find themselves yelling at full backs to 'hit the fucking channels'.<...
2025-01-03 15:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post13.11 - St. Well In's Day
11.
Saturday, March 28
Red Army Discord: Always Bet on Best
ButteryCrumpets
All right, lads. Pay attention. Absolutely massive game for Chester today and it looks pretty chaotic in the betting markets. No bugger seems to be able to make head nor tail of it.
On the one hand you've got Chester, third in the table, flying, scoring goals for fun.
You've got Colchester down near the bottom, fighting for t...
2024-12-30 19:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post13.9 - 80th Best
9.
The Eightieth Best Manager in England
By Bethany Alban
Reprinted with kind permission of Lionised magazine, the only women's football magazine dedicated to long-form content and in-depth tactical analysis.
Max Best is the 80th best manager in England.
It's a Tuesday night and the star of the Chesterness documentary is on the touchline at Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town. The Tractor Boys are in ...
2024-12-23 15:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post13.7 - Always Bet on Best
Sports glossary: Bunny. An opponent you always
2024-12-16 17:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post13.5 - Manchester United 2 Chester 1
5.
In the week leading up to C
2024-12-09 12:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostNext Chapter: Monday
Hi all,
Hate to do this but has to be done!
Because I went nuts on the last chapter (and then the Discord pointed out a big dumb mistake I spent Tuesday morning fixing...!) plus a bit of low-level sickness, some simply insane road resurfacing outside (it's December! Is it just me or is that bonkers? Also they keep finding burst pipes and have to dig up what they just put back. If they're doing it because they're paid by the day, hats off, seriously) - and blah blah blah.
But...
2024-12-05 00:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post13.1 - The Cam Before the Storm
Player Manager 13
Unluckily for some, M
2024-11-22 13:28:19 +0000 UTC View Post12.13 - Epilogue: William the Conkerer
13.
Monday, December 15
2024-11-15 15:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post