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The following is the article I wrote for the Ebbsfleet United v Gillingham Pre-Season game, which the Gills won 3-2. Today we welcome our near neighbours Gillingham for what is on paper a mouth-watering pre-season friendly.  It is certain to be a no-holds barred encounter with both sets of players keen to impress their respective managers.  For Ebbsfleet it has been a pretty good pre-season so far.  A win at Tonbridge was followed by a narrow loss to Reading and then a great 1-0 home win against Leyton Orient.  A number of players have impressed in these pre-season games, and it was good to see new signing Nathan Elder score the winner against the O’s.  Talking of new signings, we extend a warm welcome to defender Patrick Ada who has signed for the Fleet from Burton Albion.  To date he is developing a useful partnership with our defensive stalwart, and inspirational skipper, Paul Lorraine.  If his pre-season form is a sign of what we can ...

Following Ebbsfleet United, or indeed any English football team, in Australia is quite an experience.   For starters, there is the obvious time zone issue.   What this means is that living in Sydney (as I do) the time zone difference can vary from 9 – 11 hours depending on the time of the year.   For those of you who are wondering, Sydney is currently 11 hours ahead of the UK. Then there is the lack of football coverage here that you take for granted back in Blighty.   The top English and European teams get a lot of coverage in Australia, but outside of that you will not find out much about say, a Crewe Alexandra or even our beloved Ebbsfleet.   Nowadays, this is less of an issue due to a wonderful thing called the “internet”.   If you haven’t heard about it then please check it out!   This has been a major boost for all ex-pats living not just in Australia but around this amazing world of ours. However, if you go back not too many years the ea...