Now believe it !
These gradings are a real pain for the "proud parents" - you can't watch, and this part of Fazakerley has little to offer. I did some shopping at the local Somerfield and then slipped inside the pub where I nursed one pint of bitter shandy through the first 65 minutes of Bolton v Liverpool on the old "Al Jazeera Channel". That was an experience - in a Liverpool pub, full of Liverpool fans watching their team lose.
Young Peter (well 14 on Thursday night !) dutifully got the first Gold Tab to add to his Junior Black belt and the awards ceremony went on until 3pm. A speedy (!) return to Mossley got us back for about 3-50pm and I blagged a lift up to Stalybridge off the wife, managing to get there for about 4-20pm (she went shopping with daughter !) - £0 in and no programmes to be seen. I found out they were winning 1-0 thanks to an early "Duke" Ellington goal However Pell scored an absolute screamer for Frickley with about 15 minutes to go. However Bridge came back and scored what looked like the winner - until it was ruled out for what can only be described as "something" !
GOAL !!!! "Oh not it isn't", said the "Man in Black"..... WHY ?
So it's a replay for Celtic in sunny South Elmshall on Tuesday night - me I think will go for the easy option i.e. Mossley v Whitby - I got a text on the drive back from Liverpool saying Mossley 2-1 up (thanks Topsy !) - I found out later they'd lost 3-2 to a 92nd minute winner (and missed a penalty to boot !). I went for the dreaded "Rail Replacement Bus" back to Mossley, having nursed a pint of Millstone "True Grit" for the best part of 45 minutes in the Buffet Bar whilst waiting for it. Home, quick tea and then off to Manchester - Platt Fields to be exact - to see the "Installation de Feu" - fire sculptures put together by the French arts group Carabosse - and very good they were too.
Here's just one of them. Remember - it's not just football ....
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