More Ticks

Spent Friday in grave yards doing family tree research for Carole. Lunch at the Hand & Trumpet (H tick) where I had Flowers Original Ale & Gerties Sweet Traditional Ale (F tick , G tick).

Did a tour of the small Woodlands micro brewery (http://www.woodlandsbrewery.co.uk/) where I had a pint of Old Leaf (O tick).

Left Ben with Joanne & Trev who took him to the park and to watch Big Chris play rugby for the Nomads against Crewe and Nantwich (3 - 3) yes it was Rugby not football despite the scoreline.

We headed up to Burnley' ground Turf Moor, another tick on football grounds life list. The Northern Hammers hosted a bit of a party and nosh up at someone's house before the game. Drinks were provided and they put them outside on a concrete slab in the back yard on the ground to keep cold lol...Hodge would approve although he wouldn't care if it was winter on not.

Atmosphere at away games is always much better than home games as you get all the fanatical supporters in one small area. Was really buzzing. Unfortunately we weren't at the races for the first half hour and our England rep centre back had a clanger to gift them a goal.

Went down further thanks to a peach of a curling free kick. In the last 20 mins we were awesome (needed to play like that for the full 90m) hit the bar and post scored a good goal and were unlucky not to get at least something out of the game. But we need points not excuses or it's gonna be relegation to the fizzy pop for us :(

Thought Mido looked like he will be a good signing from the get go. McCarthy will take several games to get match fit. Didn't see enough of Ilan to judge although he took his goal well and looked like he might be useful.

Gotta get 3 points Wed night against Birmingham.