@BernieFriend38

Dad, Bookhouse Boy, Shrimper, Journalist, Author. Covered @SUFCRootsHall for 12 years 🦐 Before serving a 15-year sentence at @MirrorSport ⚽️

 Leigh on Sea, England
Joined March 2010
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If today is Kevin Maher’s last game as #southendunited boss, then people need to remember how he has led Blues into the play-offs and Wembley twice fighting utter chaos: points deductions, transfer embargos, financial meltdown and almost extinction. Be careful what you wish for…
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Seen the referee getting a lot of stick tonight, but he did nothing wrong, just followed the rules. What was criminal is having to bring Ben Goodliffe on up front 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ #shambles #southendunited #halifaxtown #nationalleague #properfootball
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Remember him being in the bar at The Shay back in the Noughties, same night Stuart Thurgood had to apologise to the @SUFCRootsHall fans for giving them the finger. I was too busy looking for Chastity Dingle #shrimpers #halifaxtown #emmerdale #nationalleague
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Bit quieter these days 🦐💙⚽️#SouthendUnited #shrimpers #halifaxtown #theshaymen #nationalleague #properfootball
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Every Southend United match since August 1906, more than 13,500 of them, is now online and free to explore. Forty years of research, launched tonight at the Shrimpers Trust AGM at Roots Hall. southend-united-history.co.u… #SUFC #Shrimpers
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This is the ultimate rabbit hole for all @SUFCRootsHall fans. Click on, dive deep, but don’t get lost… 💙🦐⚽️@SUFC_History #shrimpers #southendunited southend-united-history.co.u…
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You and I bashing away frantically at our laptops for @Essex_Echo in tandem and being ordered to leave the @SUFCRootsHall press box when the groundsman turned all the Roots Hall lights out
Chris Phillips
@CJPhillips1982Oct 22
Somehow it's nearly 20 years since Blues beat Manchester United. I'm working on quite a few stories on that brilliant night at Roots Hall and would love to get your views. What are your memories and stories from that never to be forgotten evening please?
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Mixed thoughts on this one. He is 34 in a few weeks, has hardly kicked a ball at York, started 16 games in 15 months, most of them at Halifax on loan - including the whole of the 6-2 defeat against us. But praying hard that he’s Richard Jobson Mark II 🙏🙏🙏
Southend United FC
@SUFCRootsHallOct 20
Ash arrives in SS2 📍 We're delighted announce the signing of defender Ash Palmer on loan from York City until January 2027. 🔗 Read more: tr.ee/ulcNN4 Transfers brought to you by RCE Commercial Gardens & Maintenance 🔄
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Is it just me or are there any other @SUFCRootsHall fans gutted about not making an FA Cup first-round trip to Plymouth Parkway? 😞
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Having been very fortunate to preview this unbelievable body of work I can say that it will prove invaluable to all @SUFCRootsHall history buffs and fans. It’s an anorak’s paradise. You’re in for a treat 💙🦐⚽️
Southend United History@SUFC_HistoryOct 15
👀 Coming soon ...
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Agreed 👍 Despite all of the ambitious spin coming out of the club it feels like we are doing it on the cheap this season. If @SUFCRootsHall is skint, that’s absolutely fine, but just come out and be honest about it. Don’t mug the fans off, we’ve had plenty of that in the past.
matthew yeatts@MatthewYeatts53Oct 17
Replying to @fan_southend1
Is nobody in the boardroom listening to the fans. If there's no money at least come out and tell us, we had enough shit and lies from the last chairman, dont take us for mugs or the crowds will disappear. probably the worst game ive seen since I started coming in 1963.
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We have ridden our luck so much this season, but it finally ran out today. Terrible team selection & zero intensity from @SUFCRootsHall. You don’t need to be a computer whizz to calculate we are desperate for a horrible centre-half, ball-winning midfielder & a proven goalscorer.
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Worst-ever defeat in the history of @SUFCRootsHall? #shrimpers @BerkoFC #facup
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Nine changes, no recognised striker, team of midgets, forget Goliath, this is David against David 🏆🍌🍌🍌⚽️ @SUFCRootsHall #shrimpers @BerkoFC #FACup #properfootball
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And an away end full of purple 7Up shirts at Barnsley the following Saturday 💜💙⚽️ #southendunited #fiorentina
FootballAwaydays
@Awaydays23Oct 12
ON THIS DAY 1993: Southend United at Fiorentina #SUFC #BLUES
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Pilgrim-age 🦐💙⚽️ #southendunited #shrimpers #boston #pilgrims #nationalleague #properfootball
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Another nail in the coffin for the rapid decline of Leigh-on-Sea’s Broadway. You’ve just got to love the way they have covered up the word ‘vape’ on their signage 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ #leighonsea @LeighOnSeacom
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Huge credit to @AFCFylde for playing their part in a very entertaining game today 🙌🙌🙌 They are the best side to visit @SUFCRootsHall this season and will take a lot of points from other teams this year. Was particularly impressed with Will Lancaster, who looks a top player👌
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Interesting pavement graffiti in Leigh-on-Sea tonight…
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Rude not to 📸🦐💙⚽️ #southendunited #shrimpers @shrimp_sammy #coasters #nationalleague #properfootball
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Chris Phillips
@CJPhillips1982Oct 1
Some very well known faces are joining me for my padel marathon on Sunday It's all for mental health care in Southend Read here: echo-news.co.uk/sport/266004…
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