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welcome to the give 'em beans Blog
Saucy, tasty and your mother loves them on toast, but that's enough about the writers. Beans is back to tickle your Barrow (Barra) bones for the first time since the early naughties. An all new team of bright young upstarts is joined by a few dusty relics of Give ' Em Beans past to bring you a brand new but old fanzine, by the fans for the fans. So join us on journey though Barradise with whatever we can cobble together to brighten an otherwise dull hour of non Barrow related existence.
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Cure For Crawley
Saturday waits...in this case at Roose Station for a train to, of all places, Chorley. An hour and a bit later, via a packed Carnforth platform of Railway Children fans waiting for, I guess, the Special Train for the Swallows and Amazons special
2 days ago
Exit-Factor
Swindon Town (H) - EFL League 2 - 6th September 2025 Two Big Names. Photo Brain Moxham Reader, a confession: I did one. I took an early...
Sep 7
Colchester Conquered
Five games in and thanks to a holiday and my boycott of Harrogate Town Saturday’s trip to Essex was my first chance to feast my eyes on Whing’s Bluebirds 2.0. I’m not a dodgy stick owner or a Sky subscriber – I don’t even like listening on the wireless, to be honest – so I’ll I’d seen was the comments and reaction on social media which is, of course, the natural home for fair, measured and balanced content.
Aug 25
Gothic horror
Cursed Harrogate. I've seen you before many times. The overcast sky seemed to offer dark portents and I felt the likely disaster that a trip would normally bring close around me. Utterly at odds with Saturday's optimism but you know, Harrogate.
Aug 20
SHIPLEY'S FLEETING MOMENT
Notts County (H) - EFL League 2 - 16th August 2025 Farmers Gone Wild For the second game in a row, it's hotter than an air-fried Findus...
Aug 17
carabao'ing Out
It’s a balmy night at Holker St, global warming rewarding our errant ways with sweaty brows, shorts and a stunning sunset over the slag bank.
Aug 14
BAILS, WAILS AND BELLYACHES
It's Friday, mid-August and cold drink in hand, I'm surveying the cricket field. In the balmy evening, a promising tyro of a bowler bears down on the gnarled grafter trying to navigate a faltering innings.
A swing in the air and a click of bails. Shouts of triumph as the youngster wheels away to be hoisted aloft by the older members of his team. Delighted applause bursts from the Furness CC patio.
Aug 10
Bad Markanday at the office
The first game of the season, the opening weekend, matchday one, we're doing this again; there are closed railway lines and package holidays aplenty, that still doesn't stop us as 400+ Barrovians made their way to Chesterfield, arguably the last true northern town before England starts to become a bit too southern for our liking. In stark contrast to last November's washout, there was no Bailey's Hot Chocolate on offer in the stadium kiosk but instead a need for Ambre Solaire
Aug 3
Vote for Your Favourite Barrow Shirt From Through the Ages
A poll for your favourite Barrow shirt
Jul 14
BOYS OF THE BlaCK STUFF
The launch of a new Give 'Em Beans Guinness inspired T-shirt is as good an excuse as any to take a tour round some of our finest town centre drinking holes.
Jun 27
1990: On the Shoulders of Giants
To celebrate the 35-year anniversary of our FA Trophy win, we wanted to share online the recent fanzine article where Phil Mc gives us a heartfelt journey through that triumph and the unsung heroes who made it possible.
May 19
Colchester Culmination
And that’s why I went Colchester. To box off the 24/25 season, to celebrate this fine club and all those who deserve a pat on the back – even in the deadest of rubbers for us.
May 4
The Preston North End Connection
The history between Barrow AFC and Preston North End goes as far back as the historical day of Tuesday 16th July 1901, when...
May 1
Humdrum at Highbury
Don’t worry folks, this won’t take long. I’m scribing this after my Easter fish and chips and prior to guzzling some ale houses of Morecambe
Apr 18
He painted Salford’s Loaded Flops
Ben Sheppard is delivering his dead-eyed shtick, talking about danglers on Tipping Point...
Apr 2
Dead Rubber SoUL
There's comfort in routine safety and the chance to enjoy football unencumbered by angst. A cracking run of 'never say die' performances...
Mar 30
Plough Lane Parity
For a team that some pundits feel should now be ‘on the beach’ with safety pretty much assured it felt appropriate to be journeying south...
Mar 24
Oh We Do Like Two Two Beside The Seaside
On the full-time whistle, as a cruel but necessary rendition of “going down with the Carlisle” rolled out across the sparse turf, Tom White
Mar 16
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