Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Amongst other stuff - Trafford 2 Mossley 1

...so the chance of another cup final goes begging - a bit like the Chorley game on Saturday - right team won as Mossley were pretty much toothless up front - an equaliser with 10 mins to go brought hope - but 90 seconds later we were chasing yet again - d'oh !

(A paltry few) Pix at

Trafford 2 Mossley 1

... again mind not properly "on the job" - we had the "2nd interviews" @ work today - much was said both on and off the record (bugger - beer can just "burst" all over computer table !! This IS live folks ...) - on both sides of the table - all we can do now is to wait for "Postman Pat" - or Bernard or Daisy - to deliver the "official verdict" on Saturday morning - and I hope he/she comes earlier than last Saturday (1130 !!) as we're off to Lancaster for football and meet middle boy (and lady friend) for food afterwards - the Mossley rabble are rail travelling courtesy of the "Sun" newspaper (!) on "2 for 1" tix - was hoping to meet them off the train, but I feel the need to wait for "the letter" before leaving home in the limo - catch 'em asap (hopefully getting a couple in at the "John O' Gaunt") ...

But before then - Friday night sees a trip to the Academy in Manchester avec Mrs Smiffy and our Michelle (sound tech - Seb Clarke album coming very soon !!). We're off to see 'Tunng with Tinariwen' - Tunng I know nothing of, but we saw Tinariwen at the Bridgewater Hall last year and their Touareg "Roll and Roll" music is marvellous (check out "Aman Iman - Water is Life")- should be an interesting night out.

But that's 4 defeats in 4 for Mossley - a touch depressing ...
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4 comments:

lorenzo23 said...

I saw someone like you at this game going in the bar at half time with a big camera.

I thought Mossley could have got it to 2-2 and extra time (oh no), Trafford were hanging on at the end.

Still enjoying your blog and your snaps, and the missus wants to go on that Retro Rail trip you mentioned a bit back so you even helping the local economy.

www.biffadigital.org/footie.html

Nortoner said...

Eyup Smiffy!

As we say here in Yorkshire...

"Tha gerrin reight gud at that there photographin lark!"

Nice pics of the footy - what shutter speed do you generally use?

Mike Smith said...

Ken - still find night matches a bit of a 'mare !! The Trafford pix were mostly at 1/500 @ ISO 3200 - starting with the 70-200mm f2.8 lens and finishing with the 24-60mm f2.8 - mess about with Noise Reduction (Neat Image) & sharpen up a bit with Photoshop - in bed before 0200 !

Mike Smith said...

... and thanks to Lorenzo for the plug !!