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The Naughties: Where did THAT decade go?

30 Dec 2009 | impsTALK.co.uk

Has it REALLY been ten years since Boston United were a no-name non-league outfit mired in some tinpot league populated by village filth like Burton Albion?

Yes, oh little Boston fan. Yes, it really has. It has been a pretty interesting ten years since then, and that's understating things a little. So now, obviously, it's time to start wrapping things up in the only way we know how: with a shit load of lists and stuff. Click though to our feature on the decade we have hilariously dubbed 'The Naughties' (because of all our court cases and cheating and.... er.... oh never mind) and read our first installment, courtesy of our favourite Manchester United fan.

Obviously when we say 'first installment', we clearly mean 'first and last installment' if recent behaviour is anything to go by. Don't judge us.

To read this thoroughly exciting feature, click HERE. Or, click HERE. Or HERE or HERE or HERE or HERE. Or perhaps HERE. Or HERE. Then again, the feature could be located HERE. Or maybe HERE. Keep clicking. You'll work it out.

Eight months, two managers, several thrashings and 53 rat burgers later, and only now has the full story of Boston's dreadful 08/09 season has become clear for all to see: apparently, we missed the NPL play-offs.

Yep, it was awful. But it might easily have been unspeakably worse. And now it's time to revisit some painful memories as, over the next few days, impsTALK presents you ungrateful bastards with another set of those end-of-season review things we did last year. Wince. Cry. Howl. Attempt suicide. But enough about the quality of the material, let's crack on examining where it all went wrong, starting with our Ten Questions series.....>> MORE

Nantwich 5, Boston 0 - as it happened!

If you really want to, you can relive Boston's second humiliating defeat at the hands of Nantwich of 2009 HERE. We're just not very good, really, are we?

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC INCOMPETENCE AND FOUL LANGUAGE

From the archives.......

Two new articles from FBYF for you to savour, both from the 89/90 season.

Pilgrims Progress
Richard O. Smith rounds up the 89/90 season so far..... MORE

Warren Ward Interview
Ex-Lincoln City forward Warren Ward played three seasons with Boston United in the mid-1980s, before being released by George Kerr at the end of the 88/89 season. Shortly after his departure from York Street, FBYF editor Richard O Smith caught up with Ward to discuss his time at the Pilgrims...... MORE

BOSTON'S UP!

Well, clearly they're not. They're probably going down. But this latest thingy has little to do with the current crop of jokers flailing around pretending to be footballers. Nope, this is a feature that harks back to the good old days.

Yeah, the good old days. You remember them. Criminals in the dug-out, Daryl Clare's two-finger salutes, Neil Thompson's multiple resignations. Being the most hated club in the world - until Leeds United went pop, that is.

And how, you ask, is this relevant? Well, thanks to the efforts of an impsTALK reader, and in an act of brazen copyright violation, impsTALK has made the entire series of Boston’s Up - a weekly column that appeared in the Guardian during United’s inaugural season in the Football League - available online for your pleasure.

The articles come courtesy of the scanning skills of Johnny Chapman, who writes: “I've had the scanner out this afternoon for something else,” teasing us into wondering what the ‘something else’ actually is.

“But I also scanned all the columns from that Boston's Up series the Guardian did during our first season in the League,” he continues, making it sound like it was all a complete accident.

Well, that’s fine by us. Johnny’s files needed a home, and we’re only too happy to oblige. At least, until the lentil-crunching lawyers come a-knockin’.

Be aware, however, that these are actually large image files, not text. So if you’re using a dial-up connection, you may wish to-...... ahh, fuck it. Who cares? You’re a second-class citizen and don’t deserve to see them. You can get high-speed broadband on your watch these days, you cheapskate plebeians.

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From the archives..... Shrewsbury 5, Boston 0
Pilgrims fans despairing at Boston United's current abject state need only cast their minds back, ooooh, a couple of years to recall the last time their team was as crap as it is now. Of course, back then, the club were under the iron rule of a criminal mentalist who liked to pretend that all the defeats were the fault of Scott Dalton and/or the New World Order.... MORE