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DWFC manager Marc White gets a six-game ban for a podcast joke:

Dorking Wanderers manager Marc White has received a six-game touchline ban for a sexist comment made on a podcast.

When discussing his disciplinary record on the Under The Cosh podcast, White said: ‘More women refs now, so you have to pay a bit more respect, do you know what I mean? You have to pay a bit more respect, like help them park.’

In May, White, who also owns Dorking, was charged by the FA with using insulting or abusive words.

The FA stated that White’s comments were an aggravated breach of the rules because of the reference made to gender.

If the FA is already this converged, it’s a wonder the English national team is even capable of fielding an actual football squad.

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Wrexham to Championship

What an unbelievable story. A lot of people have their panties in a bunch over the money, over the celebrities, and over the media attention, but no one genuinely expected such an amazing result with three straight promotions following the first campaign falling just short with a playoff defeat.

It seemed like a joke. Did two Hollywood celebrities really want to buy a soccer club from a long-overlooked Welsh city of 45,000 people that was languishing in the fifth tier of the English game?

They won the National League, they won promotion from League 2, and now they’ve won promotion from League 1 by finishing second. They’re in the Championship next year, and the Premiership is only one promotion away.

Speaking of English football, Castalia Library’s own DWFC finished in the National League South playoffs, in sixth place, but only 3 points behind the champions, Truro City. The crazy thing is that 86 points would have been enough for second last year, and they’ve still got a chance to return to the National League if they can win the next three games. They did score the most goals in the league – 89 – but an occasionally unreliable defense gave up 54, far too many of them late-game equalizers. They only lost 8 games out of 46, but it was the 14 draws, particularly the four points unexpectedly dropped against Aveley and Bath City, that cost them the league title and the automatic promotion.

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DWFC: 25 for 25

Dorking Wanderers Football Club – of whom Castalia Library is a sponsor – has announced a new ownership program called 25 for 25, which involves the sale of 25 shares of the club plus a special limited edition retro jersey. Here’s a video of Marc White himself announcing the program and here is the link if you’d like to join the ownership club and join what I can attest is truly an absolutely fascinating ride.

I can also announce something that will not yet be apparent, since it was only settled this morning, but the limited edition 25th Anniversary retro jerseys will, like the three 2024-25 season jerseys, sport the Castalia Library logo on the back. It’s a smaller logo above the number, since there is no need to leave that space for the players names.

It would certainly make for a very cool and unusual Christmas gift, even if you’re not into English soccer. The price of the shares and shirt is around $460 at current exchange rates, which is a very good price for being able to genuinely tell people that you own a real English football team with short, but already legendary history.

Forget Wrexham. Imagine when DWFC makes it to the Premiership in 15 years or so…

UPDATE: Here is the retro jersey. The logo on the back signifies that it is truly elite.

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