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  • May 19, 2020 Robb Hitchen

    British Ice Hockey and Covid19

    British ice hockey and Covid19. A topic that has generated much discussion. Like all sports,

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  • January 20, 2020 Robb Hitchen

    2010-2019: A Turbulent Time.

    To call the decade “2010-2019: A Turbulent Time” could be an understatement of a title.

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  • May 17, 2019 Robb Hitchen

    It’s certainly been interesting lately…

    And if I’m being honest, the title of this blog is probably a bit of

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  • December 22, 2018 Robb Hitchen

    I love the Phoenix Family.

    This past Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a very special get together.

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  • October 6, 2018 Robb Hitchen

    “Toxic Fan Culture” and British ice hockey

    There are a great many fandoms in the world. Some are built around popular media

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  • September 9, 2018 Robb Hitchen

    Biased? Depends on your perspective.

    One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the way that fans can see

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  • September 1, 2018 Robb Hitchen

    What defines “Success”?

    Success is a funny old thing. It can take many forms, some more obvious than

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  • August 26, 2018 Robb Hitchen

    Mistakes, I’ve made a few…

    I would venture to say that I have a bit of a reputation amongst a

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September 30, 2008 Robb Hitchen

Good Times/Bad Times…

Lets start off with the good stuff: 3 points from the weekend! A Penalties loss in Newcastle (probably some kind of karma at work there)

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September 21, 2008 Robb Hitchen

That was bloody close…

Well, it looks like the Edinburgh Capitals won’t be the easy points that they have been in previous seasons, if last night is anything to

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September 19, 2008 Robb Hitchen

That bloody woman….

Yes, its another rant…… So Sarah Walmsley has now gone to the Local Government Ombudsman to try and stop the entire Altair development from being

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September 15, 2008 Robb Hitchen

Post game musings….

…Well, we lost. Or, to be more exact, thanks to a (literal) minute of madness from the D in the 2nd period, we lost what

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September 14, 2008 Robb Hitchen

Pre game banter….

So, today see’s the begining of a special pub-crawl around Altrincham (to be undertaken by Russell, Matt, and myself) as a replacement pub for pre

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September 9, 2008 Robb Hitchen

New season, same problems….

…on the ‘official’ club forum. Some folks come on and quite rightly ask if any details are available yet regarding the clubs offer on Sunday

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September 7, 2008 Robb Hitchen

What a friggin palaver……

So, its the first home game of the season. The game is balanced 4-4 at the end of the 2nd period. Then we have an

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September 6, 2008 Robb Hitchen

One game in…..

…..and the numpties are already trolling about the official forum: (Phoenix have gone from 3-0 up to 3-3, still with plenty of the game remaining)

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August 31, 2008 Robb Hitchen

Well, thats the pre-season done with……

And it wasn’t bad. 7-5 win over the Panties, who despite icing their back up nettie, still looked pretty threatening going forwards. Big plus from

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August 29, 2008 Robb Hitchen

Another team in the shit……

The Bison have a problem. A £30k sized problem. During the last week, apparently 2 sponsors have pulled out, leaving the team with a budget

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Robb has been writing/ranting about the Manchester Phoenix (RIP) and British ice hockey for almost 15 years.

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