I get a bit fed up on days like this, when i read some of the forums and blogs from some of the southern non-league clubs, where the writer or forum member bemoans the tube trains not working or they have to get the tube AND a bus. For us today, it was 131 miles from Queensgate to Bamber Bridge – do I go ? do I spend all day driving from one side of the country to the other ? There was no official team coach (rarely is due to lack of interest) to consider as an alternative. For many fans across the country, these sorts of choices may be easy ones to make, but when you have some job commitments and a small family to consider, there is little or no choice. Especially when Scarborough were at “home”!
SO off to the Scarborough game we went. I arrived with the lad bang on 3, because we had been playing around with the internet to watch the Liverpool Birmingham game (quality not great) and flicking between the Englands womens world cup game and Cardiff Preston. I was astounded when I got in, it was packed, and surprised to see quite a number of Brid fans there as well. (so is it the “football” that spur us on to go at this level, an affiliation with the club, the ambiance and atmosphere at a ground, or a way of getting out going shopping ?) There were 441 in the house yesterday, Brids last home game attracted 136 – why ?
Scarborough were good and were much better than there opponents for most of the game, winning 4-0, I was a tad disappointed at that – it should have been 8 or 9 nil. They had a very young squad, some of which have played for Brid at some point, and looking like they will do very well this season – a big game for them next week, when they travel to Hull to play Hall Road Rangers (I am so sorely tempted to go, it will be an excellent game combining a number of Brids outcasts).
News did reach us at half time that we were 1 down, but it wasn’t till i read the forums (ours and Bambers) that I realised we had lost 2-1, and by all accounts playing really well. Ash has bolstered the squad with a few people returning from suspension or injury and a couple of new signings. Next game is on Tuesday when we entertain Bradford Park Avenue.
