to all readers for the lack of coverage of the recent international games. The truth is that I only got to see a total of about fifty minutes of the two matches because my time has been taken up so much with the move of house that has finally gone through after a year or so of lucky escapes and false starts.
It’s uncanny how many people said that my Internet link would become the biggest problem caused by my move and so I shouldn’t be surprised that they have been proved right. As you can see, I’m online now, but only because I bought myself a Mifi portable device -the installation of a phone line and fibre has been dogged by problems and seems some way away yet.
No pre match quiz today but only because we’re playing Burton Albion, a team with whom we have barely a decade of history against, let alone six. I’ll be doing my normal post match piece for Saturday morning and plan to try to get a Ton Pentre (they are bottom of their league and certs to go down it seems) in before the end of the season.
Apology reluctantly accepted although I’m not happy about you prioritising your personal life before the needs of your blog followers.
You shouldn’t have to apologies for anything look forward to your future blogs
Good luck in your new home in Treherbert, Paul.
Don’t expect much from your visit to Ynys Park, the standard of football played in the Welsh League is not of a great standard. I was a regular spectator in the 60s and 70s and I used to really enjoy the football, when I moved to Pentre in the late 90s just went to the one game, against Barry Town, and it was dire. Hope things have improved.
Good luck in your new home Paul. It’s stressful enough moving house anyway without doing it during a promotion run in.
Can’t make today’s game but should be there for the final three. Am nervous about today though. Shall be watching ‘final score’ from behind a cushion I think !
Thanks to you all for your replies. Colin, looking at the league table, I’m not expecting much if I do get along to a game at Ynys Park in the next few weeks, but I want to pay only my second ever visit to that ground. I can’t remember why, but I missed City’s FA Cup game against Ton Pentre around thirty years ago, so my only game at Ynys Park was a charity game in 1971 I think it was when Jimmy Scoular came out of retirement and played alongside a few City players in a match played on a Sunday afternoon in front of what I remember as a big crowd. All of my family attended the match and looking at the ground from the railway line, the only change to it I can see is that a roof to a terrace running virtually the length of the pitch has been taken down.
Richard, we’ve only scored three times in our four games with Burton since they were promoted and their away record is not too bad at all, so I’m expecting a close match, but I’m pretty confident we’ll come out on top – my one fear is that the break we’ve had, that Neil Warnock was looking forward to so much because of our injury situation, may prove to be too long with the Derby postponement and there will be a loss of the momentum we had two and a half weeks ago.
Think I may have been at that charity game, Paul.
The only thing that sticks in my mind about it is that City keeper Fred Davis? played as a striker and did rather well – if it was the same game.