2 cup games in a few days proved a bit of a let down after the FC Utd match. The first against Ossett was in the Presidents cup last Tuesday in front of a meager 77 (and i still didnt win in the bloody raffle), it was raining and a miserable night, compounded by a loss that in the end was quite hard to swallow. We went 2 down with some poor play & defending, but did come out in the second half all guns a blazing to pull it back to 2-2, and continued to dominate a team much higher up the league than we are, only for them to counter on 85 minutes and slot one past the keeper to win the tie. Bugger.
Then on Saturday a convenient trip to Hull to watch the boys against a local side who play 3 rungs down the pyramid from us, trouble was, I didnt know where the hell it was (i roughly did) and what time it started. Drops the missus of at the new St Stephen shopping precinct at 2pm, only for it to dawn on me that Scullys probably didnt have any floodlights or owt and that it was probably a 2pm kick off, bugger. After driving through another sports club, 2 cemetries and 2,000 Hull City fans, me and the lad eventually found it. A park with a clubhouse ! Then i had to suffer the “Oh so you finally decided to turn up did ya!” I’d have probably only just had more chance of finding a virgin over 14 in that area of Hull than finding a park with a clubhouse in it. Game was scruffy, we should have cruised past them (in theory), but it never works like that. They were no mugs, and by all accounts should have been 4 up before i got there, in the second half a bit of quality from Luke Smith set up the goal for the new lad up front to tap in. It was the sort of atmosphere that you’d experience on a Sunday morning semi final game – official crowd 53, which consisted of 30 people from Brid, 6 dog walkers, 6 dogs, 3 of their management, 3 of their substitutes, 2 linesmen, a ref and 2 people having sex on one of the upper floors of the houses at the back.
Another cup game tonight, against the mighty Guisley. This got me thinking, we will have played Unibond League Cup, Unibond presidents cup, FA Cup, FA Trophy and East Riding Senior Cup – if we do ok in all of them then we could potentially play 50-60+ games in the season (and thats only achieving 2nd round in each). Weather news, 3 hrs to kick off, is like me – MISERABLE
