Football - A cruel mistress....

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

In a post entitled "40 years and out?" last year i'd toyed with the idea of giving up going to games and at the end of last season formerly made my last visit to Marston Road and decided to finally hang up my thermos flask :'(to spend more time with Mrs Sultan

I felt that after 41 years of battering there just was not the will there to climb off the canvas one more time. Coming back from holiday in the early hours of last Saturday morning to find newspaper stories of how Manchester City's expensive stars would not be playing due to injuries and how they were goig to be kicked lumps out of at Blackburn, twinned with finding that Stafford were already played 2 lost 2, no goals and looking crap strenghtened me in my decision.

Then that cruel mistress that is football waved a bottle of smelling salts under my nose with magnificent "book-end" wins ( City 2-0 away, Rangers 2-0 at home)

Well i know what your game is missy, get me interested and caring again, get me up on my feet and wanting it, only to club me back down to the floor with yet another fusillade of hammer-blows.

You got me several times before and I'm not falling for it this time! BEGONE!

Although still strong in my resolve, ( i will be eating at Malaysian Delight in Brum today instead of going to Marston Road ) maybe i am falling for it again though.

Wins for Wolves and Farsley Celtic today will be the proof of the pudding if i've been suckered in again...

[ambersalamander]

So awful, you had to post it twice

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

Yes, my login ran out just as i was posting and when i resent the info as windows instructed it came up twice

Be a love and delete the other one for me woud you please?

Perhaps you should zap both of them while you're on....

(Edit) Hey! Wow! I did it myself! Didn't know i had the power! Maybe i CAN change the world after all! ;D

BTW, if you ever go to the Malaysian Delight try the curry Lhaksa..

[ambersalamander]

Yes, my love, you can delete your own posts!

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

Thank you, Fairy Godmother!

[amberaleman]

Sutton are experiencing the ups and downs this season as we've contrived to alternate between victories and defeats.

Nine days ago, joy abounded as (with Daza watching) Sam Gargan scored a last minute goal to give us a 2-1 win at Hendon. Today, in another trip to the suburban wastes of NW London, Wealdstone scored a last minute goal to triumph by the same score.

Sometimes I wonder if there are footballing gods having a laugh at our expense.

[Col ISIHAC.]

Aug 31, 2009 7:19:07 GMT Sultan of Cannock- SRFC said:

Thank you, Fairy Godmother!

Not entirely apt, Sulty baby.

Now. My new chum on here, exiled as am I - but he's exiled from Muff which is altogether more noteworthy; will be making the occasional foray to some beautifully Tinpot locations here & there. Why?

In part to remind ourselves that at the core, the very core of this game; there are people who dream of Wembley, but have to make do with Cow Corner. Who buy 24 cans of Happy Shopper orangeade at the market for a fiver & dump them out at 60p a go just to make sure that there's money there to wash the kit after the game. Tannoy announcers who double up as turnstile folk; who extol the virtues of fair play, equality and respect prior to the game, before demanding that the home team triumph and that all those present assist them in their endeavours.

All of a sudden, trouble, strife and financial shenanigans strike at the level many of us know and support. The need to progress to the Conference Arrogant is paramount and many clubs face an uncertain future, while blindly climbing to that summit sans oxygen; borrowing the latest crampons; begging ever more expensive rope and tackle...

There is a beautiful world out there. One which, still, just dreams. The level that I and many others on here I suspect played at in our younger days; at or around the County / Combined / Combination level. For the petrol there and back; a bonus if you win, and, who knows; a scout or two in attendance here and there. It still exists.


Want to come and see it again some day? We really are just up the road, you know.

[ambersalamander]

We beat Hendon at Wembley

[bh]

Yep, another great victory missed!!

[ambersalamander]

But I didn't miss it