{"id":33140,"date":"2022-01-09T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=33140"},"modified":"2022-01-09T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:19:38","slug":"the-trevor-bastard-extended-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/01\/09\/the-trevor-bastard-extended-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trevor Bastard Extended Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you should happen to come across any tweets or Instagram posts or discussion of two non-league soccer clubs from south London — the Streatham Rovers and Sydenham United — or the league they play in (the Xtermin8 Rat Poison League<\/a>,) beware: you are entering a long-running “alternate reality game” or ARG known colloquially as the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe. Although in this case, the ARG term might not be totally appropriate, since there is no real winner in this game — it’s just a prank that took on a life of its own<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TBEU encompasses not only other fictional south London non-league teams \u2014 from bitter rivals Dynamo Catford<\/a> (known for their slogans \u201cShit on the Streatham\u201d and \u201cSolidarity with ISIS\u201d), to bit players like CSKA Wallington<\/a> and Edenbridge Bridge FC<\/a> (check out that completely wild club crest) \u2014 but also SRFC\u2019s lawyer, a divorce solicitor named Oliver Laughdugry<\/a> (a man who hates Brexit so much he had his beloved pet dog put down so that he can fight it full-time, a \u201ctragedy\u201d he attempted to blame on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) and Laughdugry\u2019s friend Simon Hedges<\/a>, a \u201cSensible Labour\u201d journalist and online politeness activist<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Please support my new campaign. #BeKindOnline<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/jVSXETywQI<\/a><\/p>— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) July 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>