The inevitable return of the great white hype

Hello all

In two weeks I will be returning with my away day videos and I think that it's time to review the history of those videos.

Back in 2006 I started a project that would turn into an excellent opportunity for me, I started doing a video diary of Lincoln City's away games. I had been inspired by various attempts on television to do similar videos, including "Football's Hardest Away Days", one of my favourite TV shows to this day. It all started with an away game against Hereford and it was a pleasure to do them at the time as City were awesome on the road, infact seven of the first eight videos we did saw City victories, the only blight on the record being a loss at Boston United.

Things soon turned sour though as Lincoln's form became very sour, however, at the time I was a very positive person and gained the nickname of "The Great White Hype" for my method of always belittling our opponents and making Lincoln sound like world beaters. Midway through the second season and I got an invitation from Virgin Media to enter their "Biggest Football Fan" competition and I eventually finished as runner up. The videos were also featured in Zoo magazine and all the success started going to my head.

Moving to Nottingham in 2008 saw me start to fall behind with the videos. I was still going to every away game but by now doing the videos felt like such a chore, especially as I was already working two jobs at a combined 90 hours a week. I was still trying to do videos on a regular basis but even after moving to Lincoln, my commitment to doing them was seriously failing and then, in October 2010, a trip to Southend United proved to be the last video I would do on the old account after they complained to Youtube about my filming inside of Roots Hall, and Youtube closed my account.

I opened up a new one straight away but my commitment was now even lower than before as I struggled to be bothered, especially as City soon started heading for relegation as I started again. My commitment in the Blue Square Premier did improve slightly, but a 3-1 win over Colwyn Bay in the FA Trophy proved to be the last match I would do for the videos before now as I closed the channel, as well as my website.

Now I am returning though, re-energised and raring to go. I have a lot of new friends to have an impact on the videos and with the escapades of the Bantre (no, not banter) bus to come, the videos should be very interesting. I am also aiming of a MINIMUM of half an hour per video.

Hopefully they will be as much fun to make as they were when I first started.