3.9.08

Away on a Tuesday night in Stafford

The Facts
Total Distance travelled - 320 miles.
Total Driving/Travelling time - 5hrs 40 Min's.
Number of comfort breaks - 4...The drinking was of a recommended unit level only ?
Number of toll roads travelled - 1....& Well worth the nine English pounds paid.
Why are there services on a road that is put there to make travel quicker?
Number of Couples travelling about to be parted for several months - 1.
Bless the ups an downs of long distance relationships and torrid phone and text and e-mail sex....(I think i got into that far too much really)
Driving Conditions - Well yesterday was the English Summer in one day so it included Clouds,Very black clouds,Light drizzle,Rain,Downpours,Hazy sun and of course the obligatory Beautiful Rainbow that never contains a crock of gold just more of the same mediocrity.
Quotes
Were there any?
Apart from the what the fucking hell is this? to the obviously blinding DJ and his choice of tunes

Soundtrack
The Slackers- Self Medication
Frank Turner - odd songs
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever I say..
Liam Howlett - Back to mine
Robs Cheese CD
Oasis - stop the clocks
The Coral - Best of
V/A - Invol2ver - Mixed by Sasha

A straight forward journey meant we landed in Stafford at 6.30 and after hiding the bus behind a lorry (those hooligans do scare me!)we entered the darkest realms of the Staffford Rangers Fc social club and proceeded to the so inviting away supporters room,at least it had Sky sports even if was screening all of this Man Shitty bollocks.

Thirty Two years and won fuck all you blue goons.Long it will continue.
The Beer..umm the Mild was ok but all the lager drinkers were moaning about the beer.Do cider drinkers ever moan? After taunting the Norfolk pimp and drug dealer,the Stafford(I am very annoyed at the club)Clown entered the room and told us that the "security officer" had spoken and that due to segregation we could not get a beer at half time.What!!To the Tampax pseudo hooligans that caused this..I send a plague of sexual diseases to compliment the ones you already have.
The Clown then pointed us the direction of a chippy and two pubs,so we left on mass taking the £100+ pounds that would of gone into the coffers of Stafford.
What a Quality chippy,massive portions and well cooked to boot..I would recommend it highly and only 5 Min's walk from the ground.The pub was good too called The Tap & ..not sure but good hand pulled beer.
The Game
The structure of the line up was the same as the Celtic game and worked even less effectively with the only good move we had resulting in a good save by the Stafford keeper who then left the pitch injured.I wont dwell on the 4-1-4-1 with Jack as the lone striker too much as that would just be rehashing the Celtic report.It simply doesn't work for the expressive players we have and as soon as it was changed well into the second half the balance returned as did some flowing football although the "never played in the first team" before keeper still didn't have to make a save. What did i say when he came on?
Back to the game.Stafford had 4 good chances in the first 5 minutes and showed why their own supporters are calling them shit,the game then just went on and on without any noteworthy football.The highlight of the first 30 min's was an in house argument between our own supporters who proceeded to throw insults at each other about the type of support/lack of that was being shown by each group.
The king tried to get them to kiss and make up by stating that we are all together. Newsflash...there has always been a split between our own supporters and it will always remain.
I guess we need segregation within segregation?
The second half...they should of scored several times,Howie(with an absolute superb save)and absolute shit finishing meaning they didn't.
Is Steve Bull really their manager?
Other Highlights of the second half were..
The Shrimp man scaring the Stafford number 8 half to death as he picked up the ball by the fence,it was very very funny and guy really did shit himself.
& the ball landing in the open air toilets which are some of the worst i have ever visited. They are even worse than any of the ones at the Merthyr..honestly.I wonder what diseases went onto the hands of the player that took the following throw in..yuk
Anyhow the game,overall we were dreadful and again stole a point.
There were a few plus points with average performances from the new lad Mitchell,Adam Smith (going forward) and Jack Defty working his arse off in vain.
The Tactics ARE rubbish Uncle Keith not the players.
How many weeks left out of that 8?
Well done to those that travelled,there must of been 80 plus kings lynn fans in a shit crowd only totalling 476.