How's your footy team doing?

Yes, they seem to have fallen by the wayside somewhat in the last couple of weeks of so. It gives hope to all those below that there's a chance for automatic promotion after all.

Another win snatched from the jaws of defeat.Blackpool went in front after 46 seconds and Town replied within 120 seconds.

One Blackpool supporter got himself thrown out of the ground in the first minute for running onto the field when they scored. He’s travelled 70 odd miles, queued for a long time to get in, spent goodness knows how much on beer and seen 46 seconds of the match and presumably will now be banned for three years. Idiot!

I know I bang on about referees a lot but the one we had on Sunday is dangerous. A Blackpool player hit our centre back in the face with his right elbow and followed up with his left arm, right in front of the ref. Our player is out cold. What does the ref do. He waves play on allowing Blackpool to attack and runs off after the attack . He looks back once and must have seen that our player is still unconscious on the grass, he hasn’t moved. One of our other players screams at the ref to stop the game, so the clown takes the time to book him before eventually stopping the game and allowing the medical staff on to treat the injured player.

10 minutes later our lad is stretchered off still not moving. Luckily he only suffered concussion. If that had been a heart attack he would be dead. Mind you the ref didn’t get much assistance from his linesman or the fourth official who were both very near the incident.

ps in the past the Blackpool player involved has served a custodial sentence for GBH

UTT Rog. 

I forgot to mention that the last home match of the season is Town’s memorial match when the club remember all the ex-players and fans who have passed away during the year.  Photos are displayed on the big screen and in the match programme, and a minutes applause is observed before the match.

A big shout out to the 2300 visiting supporters who joined in brilliantly.

Utterly staggered, one might say Speechless  { OK, OK, I know a fair few of you will be hoping it becomes permanent    }  but I've only just recovered from one of this weekends results !!  Morecambe 0 ~ 3 Doncaster at half time so t'Alex drop to the bottom again  BUT THEN  Doncaster started roving in their opponents half  and allowed Morecambe to score FOUR {4}  so Doncaster re-rooted to the division 3  { aka League 1 }  basement again .

Oh Bliss,  Oh Happiness  -- Brian ended up being tied to his office chair by the neighbours who objected to the sound of his bouncing round  ,  Wonder if I will be released in time to cheer / boo / growl tomorrow 4th Jan when they take on Rovram in the EFL Trophy.

We shall see, indeed we shall see  

Wow ! Town have had a purple patch recently. Unbeaten in their last six matches , three wins and three draws. Even more impressive four of those matches were away from home.

UTT Rog

In 1922 Town won the FA cup and their first match was at Turf Moor, won after a replay. 100 years later Town played at Turf Moor with seven squad players against a Burnley first team and won 2-1 after going behind. It couldn’t happen again could it. 

No of course it couldn’t but if only our squad played cricket🤔

UTT Rog

So near!! Coming back from being behind 4 times with a man short shows real guts, but just a shame they ran out of steam in extra time. Ah well, back to staying in the league.

Even Politics involved with sport if , indeed, football is still a sport nowadays !

I see / hear that there is some disagreement About Chester Football Club due to their ground straddling the Anglo-Welsh border.  Whose rules about Attendance of fans should be used.

Should there be fans only in the English part, or is it complicated by where the Turnstiles are situated ?

 { Do they  still use turnstiles as such these days  ??    }

Yes Brian they do indeed use turnstiles these days but the modern ones are no longer operated by the little man behind the glass. The modern ones are automatic and accessed by a bar code or similar on the ticket. At the JSS we have a hybrid system where the little man scans the bar code on your season ticket and then operates the turnstile.

As for the ludicrous situation in Chester, it’s about time some common sense   prevailed. They’re an English club playing in an English league in an English county. Just redraw the boundary , simples.

UTT Rog

Sorry Roger but your last sentence cannot be correct, surely, especially the final word { unless you are referring to the relevant meddling Politico's !!   }