Vagabonds 2-3 Barbarians

We- the Vags- lost to the Barbarians in the cruelest of fashions conceding  the decisive goal with the very last kick of a  match played in the sweltering heat at Komaba Sub ground. The result handed the initiative to our opponents who leapfrogged us up into second place. A draw would have kept them below us [...]

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Vagabonds 6-0 Musketeers

 Warning: No jokes or funny bits in this match report. We – the Vagabonds- beat the Musketeers 6-0 on Sunday at Fukuda Denshi on an extremely rainsoaked and waterlogged pitch. The result put us back up to second in the table with just four games remaining and also consigned the Musketeers to relegation- sweet revenge for [...]

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Vagabonds 2-1 Saitama Jets. Plate Semi-final

When Push Comes to Shove   A strange chu-hi and ichibanshibori fuelled discussion on the way home – is there any difference between the headlining verbs (or nouns if you want)? It petered out pretty quickly and then back to the usual post match train journey homewards stuff………..Graham ventured that Tolstoy got a bit grumpy [...]

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BFC Vagabonds 3-1 Lions FC

The Vagabonds comfortably beat the Lions and in doing so moved up to second in the table. With 5 games left to play mximum points ( a big ask ) would see them crowned champions and secure their first ever 11-a -side silverware.

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Vagabonds 4-1 Syu Syu Aoyama

Vags 4 – 1 SyuSyu Aoyama   To the slightly lacking in humour, this season will have started ever so serenely, like a blossoming peach tree in spring or Auntie Mable baking corned beef pie in the kitchen with a wringer full of washing already in the basket. No Vags reports, no tangents here and [...]

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Vagabonds 2-4 YCAC2

The Heist   The following is based on a true story relating the events of the Vagabonds to attempt the biggest bank job since Oceans eleven, twelve or thirteen. The main protagonists have been renamed. Most are in hiding as we don’t want to compromise their current precarious existence.  

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Vagabonds 5-2 Real Celts

And if, ya know, yer history….. The Vagabonatical doctrine of the Messiah, or Glennism, had its origins in the belief that Steve G had been anointed by the Lord himself (Liversidge) so that he and his descendants would enable Vags to regularly keep a place in the TML (* further mention below) second division.

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