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A search suggests it was the Cup o' Rosie on The Rock. Seven pounds for a large full English, extra toast and a mug of tea. 50p for additional sausages... Hit the spot on a parky day.
I liked Bury, but I did make the mistake of trying to walk round the outside of the ground. One small park, a pleasant housing estate and tantalising glimpses of stand roofs later, I gave it up as a bad job and went through the turnstiles, only to realise that all the turnstiles are located on the main stand side.
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Originally posted by The Mighty Trin View PostA search suggests it was the Cup o' Rosie on The Rock. Seven pounds for a large full English, extra toast and a mug of tea. 50p for additional sausages... Hit the spot on a parky day.
I liked Bury, but I did make the mistake of trying to walk round the outside of the ground. One small park, a pleasant housing estate and tantalising glimpses of stand roofs later, I gave it up as a bad job and went through the turnstiles, only to realise that all the turnstiles are located on the main stand side.
I think Gigg is unique in that all four stands are accessed by one side. I'd hate it if we left there.
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Wednesday mornings football action was the faithfull recreation of the Hamburg stadium at Miniatur Wunderland, Europes largest model railway. I am sure you have noticed that whilst the rest of the layout is in HO scale, the football ground is TT scale otherwise it would have been too big. From then on the day got messy as a forewent my planned game of Hertha Berlin v Bayern Munich, and instead headed down to Hannover for H96 reserves v HSC. Except I got absolutely battered in a brew pub and missed the game.
The following morning it was a couple of ICE moves to Worms. On the first one, feeling extremely rough, I was cornered by a South African who had lived in Newhaven and was interested in Albanian architecture. The journey was two hours and I never ever want to hear anything about Newhaven or Albanian architecture, ever again. Anyway, hear is the final change, at Bibles, for the ten minute hop to Worms on the unit on the right.
It was then a two snack move to Pfeddersheim who were hosting the Eichbaum cup at TSGs Uwe Becker Stadion.
Except it wasnt the main pitch, which would have been a winner.
Instead it was the 3G second pitch, which was railed and had dugouts so was still a scratch. Anyway, a decent game saw Wormatia U23s beat Aminia Ludwigshafen. 3-2.
Weve all suffered from these after a heavy night.
And so to yesterday, with a leap into Frankfurt, followed by the direct ICE to Brussels, but it was off at Leuven. An afternoon taking in the bottle selections of the station bars on the line to Ottingnes prevailed. By early evening this had reached Heverlee...
...Sint Joris Weert...
...and Oud Heverlee.
The latter was also the evenings football. So I walked through a forest...
...and then a car park...
...and then watched OH Leuven Ladies v Gent Ladies. The former are part of the King Power evil tyrants to deity hero in one heliport crash dynasty. It finished 0-4 to the visitors.
Im now heading back on the first Eurostar of the morning ending out of Brussels, heading back to Sowerby Bridge to watch their title chasing game at Denholme in the Halifax league.
Heres a picture of a ticket with a snow man on it.
Last edited by Big Boobs and FIRE!; 10-02-2019, 11:01.
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Guiseley v Stockport County. Just on the train. Currently our run is DWWWDWWWWWWWWW and we have won every match since the day of my 40th just before Christmas so I feel I need to just keep being 40 for this run to continue, which as lucky omens go, sounds easy enough.
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Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Reading
Another goalless draw - that's three in my last five games now. We huffed and we puffed and we couldn't break them down. It felt like one of those games where if we scored one we'd get more, but we didn't. We had a number of chances in the first half and forced their keeper into several saves, then we didn't really get going for a while after the break and they had their best spell of the match. Bruce made some changes and the introduction of Roland Aarons provided more pace and creativity, where "more" reads "greater than zero". We had a right chance in the last minute of injury time but Reach put it over the bar. At least that'll quieten down those excitable fans talking of a late run to the play offs.
A word on said opposition keeper. The teams changed round (who said that never happens now eh?) and he got applauded as he came up to the Kop. At first I thought it was Scott Carson, but he turned round to reveal he was Damian Martinez, who we had on loan from Arsenal five seasons ago. A look at the programme at half time says Reading have got him on loan from Arsenal. He's 26 now. What sort of career is he having?
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Bootle 2-1 Winsford United
Scrappy game, took 30" to get going at all and never really became fantastically watchable - but importantly, Bootle dug in and got the win, which makes it ten in succession in the league and cements their second position in the table. Leaders City of Liverpool slipped up at Runcorn Town, so the gap at the top has narrowed to 8 points, with Bootle having played a game less and the two due to meet in the penultimate game of the season, so from a one horse procession there's now a glimmer of a chance that we could have a title and promotion race in the closing weeks.
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Us 10-39 Them
A defeat but not a catastrophic one. We played well in parts and not so well in others. What really hacked me off though was the effect of the wind. We went in at half time 15-0 down playing into the gale. Second half we failed to use it, trying to run from our own 22 yards rather than kicking down into the far corner. Disappointing and can do better is my conclusion.
The game was unopposed scrums which for me as a hooker leaves me feeling wanting. Unless my neck and shoulders feel sore, I don't feel like I have had a game of rugby.
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Originally posted by longeared View Post
A word on said opposition keeper. The teams changed round (who said that never happens now eh?) and he got applauded as he came up to the Kop. At first I thought it was Scott Carson, but he turned round to reveal he was Damian Martinez, who we had on loan from Arsenal five seasons ago. A look at the programme at half time says Reading have got him on loan from Arsenal. He's 26 now. What sort of career is he having?
the most notable thing about him for me is that halfway through his Arsenal "career", he suddenly changed to using his middle name Emiliano / Emi as his name, rather than Damian, which is his real first name.
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Bristol Rovers 1 v 1 Shrewsbury Town
Salop won the first half. Rovers won the second. The Memorial Stadium is a ramshackle affair. My mate said it felt like it was built out of spare bits of other stadia. Even the dug outs are mismatched. The game was niggly and Dave Edwards came on asingle a sub and got red carded a few minutes later for a stupid challenge. I thought it was his second debut but apparently it wasn't. Had a nice cheese and onion pasty.
And so, back on the M4 and bombing through the spray to
Barry Town 0 v 1 Bala Town MATCH ABANDONED AFTER 15 MINUTES.
Barry went a goal down then two of the floodlights went out. Cue lots of funny chants and eventually the announcement that the game was off. So, bang goes my first Twofer.
My favourite chant was "We didn't start the fire. It was Barry Council, with the dodgy wiring."
Also, both games had a minutes silence for Emiliano Sala. So he got two minutes of silence from me.
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Started the day with the newish Parkrun at Fletcher Moss on the south side of Manchester. It was then a short trip to watch Brownley Albion v North Manchester Athletic in the Manchester Saturday Morning League. This turned out to be a rather one sided game, Brownley ending up with a 6-0 win that could have been more.
For the afternoon I ventured a few hundred metres into Derbyshire to watch the Manchester League match between Tintwistle Athletic and Atherton Town. Nice views from the ground and a nice little clubhouse where you could buy a cup of tea (in an actual cup) and a slice of homemade cake for Ģ1. First half wasn't particularly memorable but it improved in the second half after Tintwistle scored in the first minute or so. Atherton equalised a few moments later and both sides had chances to win; Atherton found the back of the net but it was disallowed as it was punched in and a late Tintwistle shot hit the post with great force.
Final stop of the day was Whaley Range High School for basketball between Manchester Magic and Essex Leopards. Magic entered the game bottom of the table and were definitely second best to playoff chasing Essex. Manchester managed to remain on Essex's coattails for three quarters, but the Leopards pulled away in the fourth to win 87-63. Highlight of the evening was the match announcer for Manchester, who in his mind was announcing to Madison Square Garden but in reality was a balding pensioner from Didsbury speaking to fifty spectators over a largely inaudible PA system.
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Plenty of goals, dodgy defending and odd refereeing decisions at Mangotsfield United 5-3 Fleet Town. Then headed to Barry for 15 minutes of football, they have another evening kick-off in a couple of weeks, so will probably have another go then.
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Gillingham 1-4 Barnsley
Another routine win in a game that was overshadowed by Keiffer's head injury.
He was hit in mid air by a defender (who got booked for the challenge) and you could see that he immediately lost consciousness. Whether the damage was done by the collision or by hitting his head on the way down it was hard to tell. Thankfully he's been released from hospital, so hopefully he'll be ok sooner rather than later. Other than that (and a taxi parked blocking the ambulance at the ground) things continued as they have for the last few games.
We were bigger, stronger, fitter, faster, better with the ball, better without it. We scored in the first minute and the tenth minute of added on time, and could have had another five in between.
A particular highlight of mine was the old man in front of me grumbling that Thiam needs replacing, because he's not as good as the other ten. That would be the Thiam who was instrumental in creating our first three goals.
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Peckham Town P-P Metrogas
Peckham Town it transpires have a much looser definition of the term waterlogged than I do. Having been dry all morning it hadn't even occurred to me that this could've been off, so it was only when I trekked all the way there that I found out it had been postponed. The pitch certainly looked damp and likely to cut up, but far from "waterlogged".
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- Mar 2008
- 3385
- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
Argyle 1-1 Pompey
Pompey looked like a team that hadn't won in five, nervy and crappy final touches but Argyle could do nothing to threaten them in the first half. Their goal saw them sit deep, waste time and suddenly Argyle were a team possessed. Graham Carey and Reuben Lameiras tore through them at will but just couldn't quite create any clear chances. A great free kick to equalise, but Carey turning the fullback around was the moment (see PL thread). Sometimes though all you want is just to see your team play some excting football and though we didn't get a winner that twenty minutes was football heaven. I can be so easily pleased but before Christmas we'd have lost this game and played Porsmouth back into form. We're a different proposition now.
And in bell news, not only non-stop but it seems the job gets subbed out now too. The usual suspect arrived late for the start of both halves (it's not like he's inconspicuous after all) but still it clanged.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostThe Memorial Stadium is a ramshackle affair. My mate said it felt like it was built out of spare bits of other stadia. Even the dug outs are mismatched.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...s-1361373.html
Both goals that day were scored in the "too big" net, Rovers' would have gone over, ours would have hit the bar.
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Fulham were as hospitable as they were dreadful. If they carry on playing like that they're gone with plenty of the season left. Their fans were absolutely miserable and gave Ranieri pelters for his substitutions. I think they were pretty much ideal opponents before a big CL game, as, other than a couple of early chances, they offered very little resistance at all, and what they did offer Martial shrugged off with ease.
Pogba had one of those games where he looked like an 18 year old playing U-14s. Head and shoulders above everyone in terms of skill and strength. An absolute joy watching him play when he's like that. If he plays like that in the next three games I'll forget the almighty mard he's had on for the past 6 months and ignore the fact he's defo still going to angle for a move away in a year or so.
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Originally posted by ingoldale View PostYeovil v Grimsby. My first trip to Huish Park. Fingers crossed the Mariners can play like we did on Saturday.
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Oxford JCR Cuppers Semi-Final
Christ Church 3 Wadham 1
Resurrected our Very Old Boys team after a 4-year break. Well, just about. Had to get 2 players off Twitter on Saturday morning to make sure we had a starting XI. Worked out well, though, as we beat ChCh GCR 4-2 in an emotional return to our old stomping ground.
We were lucky to catch ChCh's postponed cuppers semi. Good day for it, still the best pitch in Oxford, and a lively little crowd of about 80-100. In the battle of the Blues, the ChCh CFW grabbed a hat-trick against his OUAFC colleague in the opposing goal, the 2nd an outrageous chip from a silly angle as he was running wide and away from goal. Cue #scenes.
Christ Church will face New College on Friday. This is the second final in three years for ChCh and a decent chance for the first Cuppers win since 1997. The New College players, spying from the touchlines, were very much 50/50 re: their chances.
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