Tag: Alasdair
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Painting London Green 2024
By Alasdair Mackay I have been to Tottenham Hotspur’s Stadium a few times to watch Premier League matches. It is one of those grounds that is a bit out of the way—a long walk from a tube station; passed Irish pubs, Turkish kebab shops, and Polish-run DIY emporiums (all the things that make north-east London what it is), but in 2021 that long…
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2023: a season in review
By Alasdair Mackay So this isn’t your regular season review for the New York Jets 2023 football season—I am sure you have read plenty of those. Plus, there was nothing regular about the 2023 Jets season, let’s be honest. What started with great hope and expectation ended with a whimper. No, this is a review of how our season went—a…
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One year and 3460 odd miles
By Steven Being a die-hard supporter of the New York Jets anywhere in the world is tough: enduring a rotating carousel of QBs with lots of “potential” (whatever that means); actually being tricked into believing that Adam Gase and Nathaniel Hackett were offensive masterminds; and championing the fact that we once again won the offseason,…
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Coz London loves the Jets
By Nic That title is something that’s been bandied around Green Smoke for a while now to emphasise the love for Gang Green we have here in the UK’s capital city. The truth is, like every other UK city, football (or soccer, if you will) is very much the predominant sport, and every London-based Jets…
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Why I quit my job for the Jets
By Jon Love This is my journey of being a UK NY Jets fan originating in 1986 at school following Ken O’Brien, Al Toon, Wesley Walker and the Sack Exchange and deciding to follow my dream of watching them in the US until they won the Super Bowl (one day it will come!) and then…
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The London Hippodrome – a Jets history
By Alasdair Mackay Last season we had 53 Jets fans in attendance for the home Patriots game. I can remember when it was just Manny and I, getting asked not to sit on the back of the sofas to get a better view of another energy sapping loss. Back then (I am guessing around 10…
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Finding your people
By Alasdair Mackay Who amongst us hasn’t done this? You come out of the tube at the end of a long day; you see a man waiting at the bus stop wearing a Patriots beanie and you boo him – the volume of the boo directly correlating to the size of the Pats fan and…
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