Saturday, February 19, 2011
The lads done very well
People who say they never watch football have, today, been entranced by a football match.
Crawley Town were up against the best in the land - Manchester United.
It was just a game, but for a short while this town feels proud of itself, we all feel proud to be a part of it.
It was a good match to watch and the general feeling is that Crawley played well and could have been deemed to be the better team on the day.
It was played in a very sporting way - no bad feeling; though maybe Rooney looked sulky, but I don't think that was the fault of Crawley.
The final result may well have been the best one.
Those who have invested big money in Crawley Town football club have one ambition - to have the team in the Football League.
This seems to be very likely.
Now the lads can return south and concentrate on the next matches - all to be played over the road at the Broadfield Stadium.
Until the medical centre was built this was more or less the view from our house.
Bill went out the other morning to take this picture.
I have been browsing the internet a little, trying to learn a little more about our players.
Just like in most professional sports these days, people go where their best chances for career enhancement and money lie. The club will be going places and so footballers were keen to be on board.
Most of them are British - Crawley can't yet afford to import players in the main; apart from Torres. Poor brother was confused - he saw somebody called Torres playing for the better team and therefore assumed it was Manchester United!
Some might like to read a piece from The Independent, written by their travel editor, Simon Calder. Crawley is/was his home town.
When Simon was 11 he was at a school in Furnace Green and his class teacher was a young and very inexperienced Mrs Monk.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/crawley-the-town-thats-so-easy-to-leave-2219281.html
What happened the rest of the day? It rained.
We didn't go to a car boot sale.
A Saturday lie in - accompanied by disappointment and envy! It was raining - so no Ford car boot sale for us (disappointing) and we sat in bed with a cuppa watching people and coaches arriving at football stadium for a grand day out to Manchester (envy).
We did a bit of shopping - got some very cheap steak (at sell by date) which we enjoyed this evening.
I described and listed 10 more things for EBay - and watched or listened to things happening at a big indoor athletics meeting.
We will be timekeeping tomorrow at a much smaller athletics meeting - but Crawley are almost guaranteed to raise the trophy at the end of the afternoon.
Crawley Town were up against the best in the land - Manchester United.
It was just a game, but for a short while this town feels proud of itself, we all feel proud to be a part of it.
It was a good match to watch and the general feeling is that Crawley played well and could have been deemed to be the better team on the day.
It was played in a very sporting way - no bad feeling; though maybe Rooney looked sulky, but I don't think that was the fault of Crawley.
The final result may well have been the best one.
Those who have invested big money in Crawley Town football club have one ambition - to have the team in the Football League.
This seems to be very likely.
Now the lads can return south and concentrate on the next matches - all to be played over the road at the Broadfield Stadium.
Until the medical centre was built this was more or less the view from our house.
Bill went out the other morning to take this picture.
I have been browsing the internet a little, trying to learn a little more about our players.
Just like in most professional sports these days, people go where their best chances for career enhancement and money lie. The club will be going places and so footballers were keen to be on board.
Most of them are British - Crawley can't yet afford to import players in the main; apart from Torres. Poor brother was confused - he saw somebody called Torres playing for the better team and therefore assumed it was Manchester United!
Some might like to read a piece from The Independent, written by their travel editor, Simon Calder. Crawley is/was his home town.
When Simon was 11 he was at a school in Furnace Green and his class teacher was a young and very inexperienced Mrs Monk.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/crawley-the-town-thats-so-easy-to-leave-2219281.html
What happened the rest of the day? It rained.
We didn't go to a car boot sale.
A Saturday lie in - accompanied by disappointment and envy! It was raining - so no Ford car boot sale for us (disappointing) and we sat in bed with a cuppa watching people and coaches arriving at football stadium for a grand day out to Manchester (envy).
We did a bit of shopping - got some very cheap steak (at sell by date) which we enjoyed this evening.
I described and listed 10 more things for EBay - and watched or listened to things happening at a big indoor athletics meeting.
We will be timekeeping tomorrow at a much smaller athletics meeting - but Crawley are almost guaranteed to raise the trophy at the end of the afternoon.
