Bristol City v Manchester City

Three games in three days ?? Yes you're absolutely right - Mrs Smiffy is away on the "last week of the skool hols world tour". It's ironic that tonight she finds herself in Bristol - a part of which was earlier infested with "proper Mancs".

Thus I found myself at the "Railway" in Greenfield watching said game. Quick resume (don't know how to put the accent on the "e" - sorry !).

City looked good first half - stringing stuff together pass-wise and certainly worth the 1-0 lead at half-time - nice goal from Mpenza. Second half - they were crap - really - in my eyes anyway - hoof ball - couldn't string one pass together let alone none....Bristol equaliser summed it up - two for the ball in the air - both missed and sloppy stuff on the ground.

Fortunately Rolando Bianchi pulled them out of the .... with a late winner - god he'd missed a few throughout the game (should have stuck to selling furniture in Macclesfield with his brother Arighi - sorry that goes down as a fairly local (North West) joke).

And why did all the Bristol players have their "Christian" names on their shirts ???? And why were they all called Blackthorn ?? And yes I spotted Stalybridge reject Lee Trundle ....

So - no extra time/pens gave me the chance to come home (fairly) sober and sort out the Curzon/Radclife pix (see thread below).

If anyone knows of a game in the Tameside area tomorrow evening - let me know - otherwise it's the Mossley AFC Quiz Night......actually sod it - Quiz Night sounds good !!