Salford City vs Mossley

Yep it was on in the end - the scary weather never quite made it up here - Ashton United's game at Hednesford was called off early doors, and Droylsden got precisely 18 minutes at Solihull Moors - take a look at Carl's pictures..

http://www.bloods.fotopic.net/c1574432.html

he could put some of them in the surfing section - if there was a surfing section !!

Anyway - to me - haircuts were a miserable failure - Giuseppe has broken his shoulder and Peter's mate appeared to be "off" - so .... he got hair wax from Superdrug - I got the new DragonForce album "Ultra Beatdown" from HMV - AND IT'S GOOD \n/

Once we got the "thumbs up" from Salford it was easy - 1257 to Manchester Vic, and straight on a 98 bus to Moor Lane - by now the sun was out !! The game - here's a little "tempter" (exclusive to "STS" as well !!!)



Mossley won 4-0 - easily 4-0 - it should have been a lot lot more - the last 20 minutes Mossley were cutting through the "Ammies" defence at will - 'twas just bad finishing, greed, showboating, and - believe or not - a great performance from Salford Keeper Martin Campbell - which kept the score "reasonable".... here's the pix ...

http://mossleysmiffy.jalbum.net/SalfordMossley1/

At half-time I'd noted the large number of cameramen "with a Mossley bent", so I decided to "go short" in the second half and try something different viz. crouch behind the net with me 24-60 (which enabled Aaron to "have a go" with my 70-200 - looking forward to seeing how he does !) - hence the "net enabled stuff".

After the game - the heavens opened - so we 'snuck' a taxi back to Victoria in order to get on the cattle truck that was the 1829 to Mossley - it was thoughtful of the Northern Rail staff to cram everyone on (including the bikes) before announcing that there would be a delay because of "no driver" - yes they cock it up at weekends too....back in time to see the kick-off of the Andorra game - after 10 minutes (when England were not six up) - I went home - believe they've sneaked through 2-0 - yes 2-0 - against Andorra - 2-0 if you missed it - against Andorra - latest FIFA rankings I can see have England at 5 (just below France) and Andorra at 132 (just below St Vincent and the Grenadines).

Thank heavens for a comprehensive away win - I'm talking about Mossley you fools ...!!!

Next week sees the "new FCUM" roll into Mossley - yes FC Halifax Town are the visitors on Tuesday evening - they started the season with a 1500+ crowd and a 0-3 home defeat - believe the attandances have dropped off a bit, but I'd still expect a tidy number to come over the hill - hopefully including Chris, a Halifax fan who is a member of the Stalybridge Buffet Bar "teatime club" !! The same evening sees Stalybridge Celtic entertain Southport in the Sultana Shield - so expect streakers, penalty shoot-outs, floodlight failures (no cameras this year I believe though) crowd ejections and the like at Bower Fold !!! And yes I noted Celtic's "late late show" at Farsley today - keep it going !
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