Blood and Glory by Man in a Hat
Blood and Glory (Shrewsbury 2024) I haven’t been to Shrewsbury for over 10 years. Bizarrely, this was on the way to Wellington to watch Stockport lose to Telford 2-0 in the National League North. That Telford trip was my first ever attempt to chronicle my exploits as a retired County Supporter now able to stay over when travelling away. However, before I retired, Shrewsbury was always somewhere we’d stay at least 2 nights when following County, despite it being just over an hour on the train. Ditto Hereford and Chester. Good times, but all undocumented. As for the Telford trip back in February 2014, it’s still on the hedgegrower site, and you can read it here:- https://hedgegrower.blogspot.com/2014/02/telford-promised-land.html (it’s very short, I promise - when did I get so verbose?). This was the trip where, on the Friday night, I mistook a boarded-up pub called the Kings Head for the pub I was staying in (the Cock Hotel), and when my key wouldn