Bernie Friend

Dad, Bookhouse Boy, Shrimper, Journalist, Author. Covered @SUFCRootsHall for 12 years 🦐 Before serving a 15-year sentence at @MirrorSport ⚽️

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

If today is Kevin Maher’s last game as #southendunited boss, then people need to remember how he has led Blues into the play-offs and Wembley twice fighting utter chaos: points deductions, transfer embargos, financial meltdown and almost extinction. Be careful what you wish for…

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Highlystrung365 @SUFCRootsHall @Essex_Echo Sure is my hairy brother from another mother 🙏

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

You can read all about how I helped @SUFCRootsHall keeper Darryl Flahavan to thwart Cristiano Ronaldo in today’s @Essex_Echo 🦐💙🖐️⚽️🖐️🥅 🗞️ #southendunited #shrimpers #manutd #powerofthepress

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Highlystrung365 @SUFCRootsHall @Essex_Echo Finally, somebody appreciates me 😂👍

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

Nice to be asked by @CJPhillips1982 to share my thoughts on @SUFCRootsHall’s greatest-ever win over @ManUtd 20 years ago in @Essex_Echo 🦐💙⚽️ #southendunited #shrimpers #manutd #leaguecup #giantkilling https://t.co/ahukUbwlAZ

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

1989/90 promotion-winning Firholm shirt next at @SUFCRootsHall please 🙏🌲⚽️

[Carl Sewell @TerraceCarl]

Loved bringing this '88 Centenary shirt back to life for our @WFCOfficial x Terrace club store!

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@adrianjclarke @strollernick @HaytersTV Bag of crisps and a pint is going to cost you at least a tenner now… should have done it all those years ago, so much cheaper 😂😂😂

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@sdm107 @SUFCRootsHall Thanks for sharing that Stuart, what a lovely way to remember your Dad… and the game unfolded exactly as you described. A night to be cherished for much more than just the scoreline

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

Can’t believe it’s 20 years ago that I got to write the biggest back-page story of my career, on @SUFCRootsHall’s greatest-ever night. Where does the time go? 🦐💙⚽️ #southendunited #shrimpers #manunited #leaguecup

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@simoncooper99 @SUFCRootsHall At least 😂👍

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@davethephoto 😭😭😭

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@MatthewYeatts53 😭😭😭

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

I asked this question over the summer and now I’ll ask it again, how can a DOF entrusted with reshaping a whole football club carry out such an important role tapping at a keyboard 200 miles away from Roots Hall in Sheffield? #southendunited #shrimpers #nationalleague

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Crispsting Agreed 👍

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Simontimofish Correct… whole set up is an utter shambles

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Julie_Hardy63 Thank you 👍

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Simontimofish Nope, still up north. No relocation

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Highlystrung365 @DanMays86 It feels like we are sliding backwards. We have sacrificed humble, football people who loved the club for big egos with no experience of the game… a chairman who lives abroad, a DOF who hasn’t committed to living here and a tinkering one-trick pony coach who has been sussed out

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Highlystrung365 @DanMays86 I know you do and it’s very commendable. We all want Blues to succeed, but there is something very wrong about the club at the moment. It feels rudderless, lacking in leadership everywhere, and a lot of fans feel no connection with this rag-tag team of loans and free transfers

[Bernie Friend @BernieFriend38]

@Ferret1979paul @DanMays86 Yep, it surely was, but our back four has got more leaks than Thames Water. However, in its defence (no pun intended), they get little assistance from a midfield which doesn’t know how to tackle