Yet still more ribbing re ^. I don't think telling social media of my stupidity was the right. No doubt more to come Monday morning !!!

 

 

Before Bolton Fan and I forget completely, here is m'prototype article.........

 

Tales from Macron!  as recounted by Ernst R.R. Heisenburg.

Macron? It’s not very catchy is it? It sounds rather like a medieval Westeros outpost, or even a modern shopping centre.  RIP dear Reebok, formally a favourite away ground, but they have persisted with those advertising boards, thus rendering the home end a land of mystery. Maybe their leader feels that an expensive electric board system advertising meat pies or bowls o’ brown puts them in the big League, whatever, the seven Gods are on our side, one could see them beginning to malfunction and one hopes that they will short and fizzle out by the time of our next meeting.

We so much enjoyed our Spring trip to Burnley that we decided to take the same scenic route over the tops. The yellow bikes, multi coloured shirts, and the name “Phil” written on the road a thousand times, brought back happy memories of early July and our own chance to host the premier cycle competition. After a long and leisurely lunch in the hills above sunny Horwich we stocked up with alcoholic beverages and made our way back to the expensive Hotel which was charging Brighton prices for this football occasion. Whilst having us tea, I read that Dougie Freeman was promising “True Grit …. not short on commitment… we are certainly going to have a team giving their all tonight!”

Mrs Heisenburg asked me to hide her water bottle in my waterproof, it wouldn’t be the first time she had one confiscated, and worryingly as we approached the security barriers we could see that everyone was being searched and subsequently I was enthusiastically patted down by one of the security men. Maybe it was the scrunchyness of the container, maybe he wasn’t concentrating, but we were let through. I must fill it with Ouzo next time.

 It being a night game and many leagues away from home, we were delighted by the turnout of friendly looking ‘Boro fans. Apparently at the Leeds game my chums didn’t know whom to be frightened of, the Leeds lot, or our own twirling and chemically stimulated bunch. Luckily that type only turn out in force for Leeds games nowadays.

To say that we bossed the first twenty minutes would be an understatement. Bolton didn’t get a look in. We passed and passed again, made attacks but didn’t score, or as the Bolton News put it, “For long spells they [Bolton] dominated the game but were unable to convert their superiority into goals.”  Maybe someone had slipped milk of the poppy into the reporter’s tea. However, it looked ominous, another game, lots of pressure, and one worried that Bolton would score on the break. They always put us old folks out on the periphery of support and we were therefore in a perfect position to see Craig Davies run towards us and fall over for no apparent reason. Honestly! From our direction it looked like he dived. Cue lots of shouts of “Cheat!” from our area. There wasn’t a lot of protest on the pitch so maybe someone did clip him but I would love to see the footage from the camera situated above us.

Since most of the action was taking place at the secret end, it was difficult to see beyond our midfield players but at some point our very own wildling David Wheater handled the ball and we had a penalty awarded. We now know that one of our players chased after the referee brandishing an imaginary card. The shame of it! I don’t want to see our players behaving like that, nevertheless Grant smashed home the equaliser and at a stroke made the fifteen minute break easier to endure. As the temperatures dropped, a game of musical chairs ensued, and people regrouped with their friends, we felt a lot cosier.

More of the same in the second half, and although Bolton had a couple of near misses down amongst the light show end, we were definitely troubling their defence more regularly. Much as though the clever play between Tomlin, Adomah, and Kike was entertaining, I rather liked the shoot on sight attitude from Reach who hit a belter and was unlucky not to score. Sure enough though, a deft flick from our new goal machine Kike gave us what turned out to be a winner. We held out under immense pressure as Doogie threw on Beckford who had a goal disallowed.

So another entertaining away trip and a couple of wins under our belt, but as I type this we have suffered a couple of disasters, or Games of Groans, if you will. We have a saying in the North, “Winter is coming.” And at the depressing Reading game final whistle one could almost hear the haunting strains of “Rains of Castamere!”

I’m tempted to venture down the “Donkey Dome” this afternoon to watch my local team play top-of-the-table Maidstone Utd.

Beat 4-0 by what looked like a decent team.

 

Crowd of 650+ (i think) which in the context of Ryman Premier wasn't at all bad.

 

Would i go again? Doubtful

When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race

 

Come on England!!!

 

Halifax Town is not far from me and they featured on the news programme Look North tonight. Apparently they a top of their league and looking to get promoted into the football league. It crossed my mind that it would be good to go see them if I can find a window between my games at Hillsborough and the Formula One.

 

Cost me a tenner (okay they got slaughtered) cheapest currently "available" ticket for Chelsea v Swansea next weekend... £165.

Good Result! Tough fixture out the way and 3 points on the board.

 

Roy deserves some credit tonight.

Is it childish of me to say...it's only Switzerland

That was one in the eye for the knockers. Switzerland were in the last 16 in this years WC and lost 1-0 to Argentina AET.

 

Quite possibly as they are ranked 9th in the world and England are ranked 20th. 

Wow! As this morning we had sold 2400 for Huddersfield. I'm really looking forward to it.

3200! Apparently there are only 300 left.

Welbeck, Costa, Balotelli, Falcao all to score 21/1(oddschecker)

 

I'm not convinced that's anywhere near generous enough.

 

 

 

Half Time: Man City 1-0 up.

 

Birmingham beating Dirty Leeds 1-0.

 

We're on the way back through York! I believe that we had the biggest away following of the day!
Great day out!

 

You pulled that one out of the bag at the death there GJ  Sneaked above us in the table 

 

Bit disappointed as it sounded like we bossed the game but could not find the killer blow. Still I'm liking the new solidity.

 

We had a great day out, but the icing on the cake was provided by Queenie who advised on our destination pub.

Come on you... die Schwarzgelben!

 

I have the 'pool game on the telly box, but don't think it will be on for long as I'm not a fan and they will probably beat this side comfortably.

 

Listening to our game on the voice box, couldn't justify a Tuesday night trip to Cardiff.

 

It a fair old trip to Cardiff GJ.

 

 

Just flicked onto the Birmingham v Sheffield Wednesday match on Internet and a goal goes in by Jeremy Helan !!!

 

Slide above Middlesbrough into 7th spot 

 

Reading (our competitors on Saturday have notched a late winner by the looks of it).

 

Good away wins for us both EC!

 

Certain is.

 

At this rate we could end up playing each other in the play-offs !!! 

 

We need to start getting decent results at home, both of us!

4/6 Bayern

3/1 Draw

4/1 City

 

 

Not everyday one wants the cheating Bavarians to win but!

Back to the important stuff.....

 

Just seen the Newcastle v Hull game. I have to say that when Newcastle gave Pardew an 8 year contract I did think , mainly because if they need to sack him it will cost a small fortune.

 

It is looking like it will cost the chairman a small fortune. I know they are just highlights, but Newcastle don't look great at time, could be difficult against the top clubs.

 

 

 

I have to say I am extremely pleased with the win against Reading today. Especially as our keeper made a penalty save and we then went on to win, all in front of 30,000 supporters.

 

Terrible referee and linesman on the left hand side, did not stamp his authority on the game early enough, then started booking for everything and missing other important decisions.

 

The team really look like they are full of confidence and playing as a unit, great that the manager is trying to play an unchanged side in the process building up an understanding between players.

 

Also interesting that we beat Reading 5-2 previously and today our close neighbours lost 5-2 to Swindon on the day we play Reading. Not the most interesting fact, but made me smile a bit.

 

 

Good result for you too GJ. Leapfrogging us. Keep telling you, if we both go on like this there is a possibility we may end up at Wembley in the play-off final.

 

 

 

 

It is a bit sh*t for us at the minute, but what scares me most is I can't see a way out. 

 

If they did get rid though, the only person/s I can see filling boots at the minute (other than some Galactico manager) is Neil Lennon or Tony Pullis (sp) 

Pulis may be a decent shout, not a fan of the man or his style of play, but you have to look at his time at Stoke.

I think he could possibly keep us in the top half, rather than the bottom half EC 

When you come to the end of a perfect day....... My son was able to go and sit by me, we won 4-0, I hit the bookies for win, win/win, Leadbitter to score anytime, and Bamford to score anytime, and I had two articles in the Fanzine. One is blotto.

Man utd ... LOL

 

Naughty, naughty.

No more heroes anymore.

I bloody hate football now....fed up to the back teeth with Spurs.

He got loads of racist abuse on twitter in reply to that ill judged tweet.

 

The police have been called in...but seriously, why does he do these things?

Good result for the Canaries against Brum. Unbeaten since the opening day defeat.  coming from 2-0 down to get a draw is a good result.