Brid 0 Bamber Bridge 2 (h)

Well, the visitors came and showed the sort of Christmas cheer that the Scrooge household would have been proud of. In fairness to the lads, they battled well against a well organised outfit, who should have been 2 up by the half hour mark with a couple of cracking efforts. Our lads battled back well and had a couple of excellent efforts either side of half time and had the visitors on the ropes mid way through the sewcond half. But two fantastic goals settled the match, and for me, another game where the teams were closer than their league positions. It goes to show, you must take your chances, eventually they did and we paid a hefty price for it.

The game did get niggly with about 10 to go, when Luke Smith was clearly elbowed by their No7 – alas, guess which three people in the stadium (with approx 235 fans 15 club officials 34 players 2 dogs and Wayne) didn’t see the incident – YES the dudes in black. He then got booked for complaining, nothing like sweet justice eh ?

Bizarrely, the entrance to the game was free today, only 235 brave souls and the club even laid on a free mince pie for everyone – well done chaps, muchos gracious.

I understand one of the forum members had a chat with one of its observers today, and was told that some of his “personal comments” may lead to an early scrub an’ rub from our local NHS nurses for said forum member concerned. Forums are supposed to be just a jolly place to leave opinion, not personal attack – as is the case above, it may lead to a proper personal attack if you’re not careful.

I may well be away watching the mighty Potters v Tigers when Brid are next at home, New Years Day.

To all my reader(s), have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

zin

Brid 0 – Garforth Town 3 (a)

With Brid being away again, and family commitments taking me to London this weekend, I decided to go and watch my old team who were at home in the first round of the FA Trophy – Wealdstone v Weymouth.

It took 6 hours to drive down on Friday, bastard journey – why can’t our bloody government and Highways Agency sort out the bloody roadworks, because they are crap crap crap and really crap. For some reason the game was played on Friday night, and it was freezing bloody cold. Wealdstone are in the Ryman Prem (similar to Unibond Prem) and Weymouth are in the Blue Square Conference. The game was excellent, in front of 343 lunatics (given the weather) and you would have struggled to believe there was 2full divisions between them.

Weymouth did have a couple of excellent chances early on, but after that it was mainly the Stones who controlled the game and had 4 or 5 excellent chances to score but found it difficult to score. Weymouth broke most of the fans hearts with a winner in injury time (90+3) – it was like a knife through our hearts, but you could clearly see the relief on all the Weymouths players & management team – lucky sods.

Summed the weekend up, me lad was violently ill on Saturday, and I was struck down on Sunday – bloody awful & debilitating – bit like watching Brid some would say.

Brid 0 Newcastle Blue Star 4 (h)

Today was the day, pre-determined by some to be the clubs Xmas party, with players and officials stopping afterwards for the party.

As you can probably guess from the tone that it and the game didn’t go as one would have hoped.

I had gone with bags of confidence for the day / night. We didn’t play well, but the scoreline suggests it was a more one sided victory than it really was. But in fairness bar Redfearn and the new lad Graystone, we had a pretty off day. And the guys in the crowd slowly dropped their hopes and aspirations mid way through the first half (basically when we were 2 zip down).

I nipped home at the end (to watch the Watford game on the box) and decided to get down the clubhouse at around 8sh when the party would be in full swing. It was in full swing all right – 20 people. Only 20 peeps (Dom, Ash & Liam Berry with mate, Chris Webb, Young Webbo and 4 mates, Mr and Mrs Warren Spear, Wayne, the ladies who help out every week (2), 3 bar staff and 3 friends, Mick, Scotch guy off the committee) not good, and clearly epitomizes where the club stand within the local community (or doesn’t) and perhaps the current crop of fans.

Little zin and i, did storm the quiz and leg it with the booty and we’ll have a Lambrini moment with it.

Brid 1 Garforth Ave 0 (a)

Well well well. An amazing week of football last week – England losing in a dramatic game against Croatia (I’m not writing anything more, other than I was deeply pissed off by it) and Brid winning !! Can’t write a lot about it, because I was at home trying desperately to warm up after working in the morning (and freezing my tits off). But according to some commentators, we played really well against a side that tanked us 2-0 a few weeks back, with Neil Redfearn being the linchpin. Exciting times ahead ??

But its a win, another away from home. Lets get it on at the theater of wet dreams….