A beautiful day - and a day when much would be decided in the football world - at all levels. I found myself on the 1157 train to Stalybridge for a quick "Hi !" to the Alfreton Town fans on one of their "If we're playing within 276 miles of Stalybridge, We'll Detour to the Buffet Bar" trips - although I missed Wozza, as he was apparently hunting for cash machines deep in the fleshpots of Stalybridge.
A 389 bus was the one for me - taking me down to Woodley to see their game against Belper Town. A quick pint of Robbies in the Railway before cutting through the estate to Lambeth Grove, meeting up with Tim, the Belper "Snapper" - who's been great with doling out hints and tips for the new Smiffy camera (well it is his old one !!).
For such a beautiful day the crowd was an abysmal 76....
Belper started much the brighter team and were starting to look threatening - until after 17 minutes when a major defensive howler allowed the "man with the wide shirt" (aka Daniel Douglas-Pringle) to slide the ball past Adam Ogden to give the home team a thoroughly undeserved 1-0 lead. That was the score at half-time, when I repaired to the bar to check out scores from around the country - no problem getting served either !! Droylsden 1 up Kettering 1 down jumped off the Sky videprinter for starters - and then the Unibond games started appearing - as in Ashton 1 up Leek 1 down - got the call from Welly - Mossley were 0-0 at half-time - there was still hope. However within minutes, it started going pear-shaped all over. Witton took the lead against Mossley (obviously another classic "half-time team talk") - and a cast-iron penalty for Woodley gave Gavin Salmon (ex-Mossley) the chance to double the lead. Ten minutes later a weird one - Salmon had dinked the ball over Ogden and it was heading for the net as he fell over the keeper - however a last-ditch clearance kept the ball out - so the ref presses "rewind" and awards another penalty - Salmon duly made it 3-0.
There was time for a late Belper consolation from Alex Steadman, but it's only 3 wins in the last 12 for the Nailers - safe enough from relegation, but still 2 wins off the "55 point figure" put out by the Managerial duo of Andy Carney and Danny Hudson, who took over towards the end of last year. Other news was filtering through now - Ashton win - Mossley lose - which officially condemns the Lilywhites to the Unibond 1 next season - whether it's Unibond 1 North, South, East, West or even "North by NorthWest" - we have something to muse over while those "In Charge" make the informed decisions.
A quick natter after the game before heading straight to Manchester and the Royal Exchange Theatre to meet up with Mrs Smiffy and friends to see "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?" - very long and very heavy - just made the last train out of the 24 hour city (still makes me laugh !) back to Mossley.
Some pix from today available at:
http://s146.photobucket.com/albums/r272/mossleysmiffy/WoodleyBelper/?
A 389 bus was the one for me - taking me down to Woodley to see their game against Belper Town. A quick pint of Robbies in the Railway before cutting through the estate to Lambeth Grove, meeting up with Tim, the Belper "Snapper" - who's been great with doling out hints and tips for the new Smiffy camera (well it is his old one !!).
For such a beautiful day the crowd was an abysmal 76....
Belper started much the brighter team and were starting to look threatening - until after 17 minutes when a major defensive howler allowed the "man with the wide shirt" (aka Daniel Douglas-Pringle) to slide the ball past Adam Ogden to give the home team a thoroughly undeserved 1-0 lead. That was the score at half-time, when I repaired to the bar to check out scores from around the country - no problem getting served either !! Droylsden 1 up Kettering 1 down jumped off the Sky videprinter for starters - and then the Unibond games started appearing - as in Ashton 1 up Leek 1 down - got the call from Welly - Mossley were 0-0 at half-time - there was still hope. However within minutes, it started going pear-shaped all over. Witton took the lead against Mossley (obviously another classic "half-time team talk") - and a cast-iron penalty for Woodley gave Gavin Salmon (ex-Mossley) the chance to double the lead. Ten minutes later a weird one - Salmon had dinked the ball over Ogden and it was heading for the net as he fell over the keeper - however a last-ditch clearance kept the ball out - so the ref presses "rewind" and awards another penalty - Salmon duly made it 3-0.
There was time for a late Belper consolation from Alex Steadman, but it's only 3 wins in the last 12 for the Nailers - safe enough from relegation, but still 2 wins off the "55 point figure" put out by the Managerial duo of Andy Carney and Danny Hudson, who took over towards the end of last year. Other news was filtering through now - Ashton win - Mossley lose - which officially condemns the Lilywhites to the Unibond 1 next season - whether it's Unibond 1 North, South, East, West or even "North by NorthWest" - we have something to muse over while those "In Charge" make the informed decisions.
A quick natter after the game before heading straight to Manchester and the Royal Exchange Theatre to meet up with Mrs Smiffy and friends to see "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?" - very long and very heavy - just made the last train out of the 24 hour city (still makes me laugh !) back to Mossley.
Some pix from today available at:
http://s146.photobucket.com/albums/r272/mossleysmiffy/WoodleyBelper/?
But here's some exclusive "Six Tame Sides" tiddlers as well...starting with a leaping Salmon...
....followed by "the first penalty"
....followed by some midfield action-type stuff
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