Waders v Bromsgrove sporting Fc

26th September 2020

0 – 1 to the Rouslers

M o M – Fabio Lopez

Fabio is on loan to us from Oxford United, he made an impressive debut, looking good on the ball with some superb runs in the first half!

Alcoholic units – 3 at the club and a few in Spoons earlier 👀🤣

**BigAl & WaderSpursSimon are looking to sponsor a player – Preferably not a Gooner!** get in touch please ⚽️⚽️

After the disappointment of Tuesday and I’ll be honest I’m not sorry that I didn’t make the long journey on a Tuesday night, especially by all accounts we got a battering – so if I’m honest today wasn’t a match I was looking forward to as the last time we met Bromsgrove they beat us 4-2 😪 although as one of their supporters kindly said that was when we’re going through, what shall we call it. 🤔 erm, a transition? 🤐🧐 But Even so I was expecting us to lose in a dramatic fashion today and I don’t think I was the only one 😬

First off we headed to spoons this would be an expedition with the new tighter Covid-19 measures in place 😷 and the considerable drop in temperature meaning we would all be having to wrap up in our winter warmers 🥶 and having to mask up to get to our table at spoons assuming there would be space of course, everything was crossed that there would be 🤞you try telling DJ there’s no room for him and he won’t be getting a burger!😱

On arrival at spoon’s we were greeted by what I thought was a bouncer, but was in fact just one of the staff in hi vis instructing us to fill out yet another QR code for the NHS track and trace; we did this easily, well I did but BigAl was having a little difficulty trying to scan it into his spoon’s app 😜but we won’t mention that unlike him last week at St Ives 🤓😲

**I just want to make a point about The Crown (Spoons) in Biggleswade; people are quick to knock anything spoons related, but since pubs have re-opened I can honestly say they have done it all brilliantly, with the screens between the tables (I hope they stay), the app (they were miles ahead of their time), the furniture spacing and now with the enforced table service and mask wearing – I can’t knock the place; the staff and management are doing a fantastic job and its certainly one place in these worrying times, that myself and BigAl feel safe 👍👍

We managed to get a table in the bar our favourite spot 😍 and set about our order and getting one in for Chelsea boy 🍺🍻🥂as we sat there we saw Big Dave K walking past, looking like a Peaky blinder crossed with a country gent type 😉🤣he quickly made himself comfortable across the way gate crashing another table😅

DJ’s burger arrived quickly and it looked quite fancy with a slice of Brie across it 🍔 however it later transpired that it wasn’t his burger and some other customer had gone without 😬 Now, I have seen the look of a killer in DJ’s eyes when I’ve tried to take a chip from his plate before so there is no chance of the burger being reunited with the real owner 😰 and I think to be fair he quite enjoyed the fancy chicken burger well he didn’t share 🤷‍♀️

By now Chelseaboy had joined us bringing along with him, the Waders Stone he has been working on, it looks really good, who knew we had a budding artist amongst the Green Army 🎨🖼 we’re hoping this will take pride of place behind the bar although hopefully out of Daniels reach you know how he loves a stone …😱

By now BDK had joined us as we tucked into another round and I was fed much blog fodder 🧐 If only I could use it all 🤐 what I did discover, was that BDK prefers a bit of thigh over breast 😜 and his mate Chris has danced with Natalie Lowe 🕺💃I’m sorry we already knew that he’s mentioned it once or twice 😂 I was also assured but that it wasn’t a Peaky Blinders cap but a bakers boy one it must be something about people born on the 15th of September it makes us such tarts 🥰 yes me and BDK are Virgo birthday Twins – he is the older one, in case you couldn’t tell!🤔🤔

Apparently, we left too late for BigAl, having squeezed in another round; BigAl wanted to get to the ground, to get twitter prepped 🤓 not quite sure how that affected his ability to spell Yvette?? 🤔🙄but apparently it was our fault for leaving spoons late 😏 BigAl and DJ sped off ahead of us catching up with Bunnyman at the turnstiles. It was good to see some old faces back at the Yvette Brewer Stadium (YBS) WaderLew met us with a lovely smile for his Nanna and Grandad😍 Uncle Albert and Rodney had just arrived and JT and M.⚽️💚⚽️

The teams came out and it was a lovely gesture by the club to do a minutes silence In memory of Yvette Brewer; it was impeccably observed, even by WaderLew and DJ 💚⚽️💚⚽️💚⚽️

Waders were to kick towards the BelEnd, so we all decamped to the other side, on my way I spotted MrB and we exchanged an elbow greeting, its good to see him back at the football having sadly lost his other half early on in the lockdown 💔 On getting to the BelEnd we saw Darren, Anya and some of the family including Yvette’s brother who went to school with BigAl and Bunnyman; They were understandably quite emotional 💔💔

We all took our spots, literally on the red spots for kick off, and the heavens opened ☔🌧 Luckily there was space for Lew and DJ in the BelEnd.

It was nice to meet Danny, who was helping at the St. Ives gates last week, he had come along today, I think to watch the match but then succumbed to TracyD’s ample charms 👀 and was now sporting a HiVis.. he was very complementary about us as a club 😁👍

The 1^st half

This was a game that the Waders were unlucky not to take anything from, we totally dominated the first half with possession and chances but couldn’t put the ball in the net 😏The new signing from Oxford, Fabio Lopez looked good and Trey Charles looked sharp as he got involved almost instantly only to be taken down in the box, but no booking. Johnny Giles did well shooting wide from the edge of the box. My sponsored player James Peters just missed with a header on 26 minutes ☺

Half time no goals

Now with two drinks in my hand thanks BDK and Darren 😊 and having trialled the loos – it was all done really well, and despite some moans from others, there was barely a queue👍

2nd Half

I stood and had a natter with MrB, separate spots of course! I know its necessary and the club have done the covid-19 compliance really well, but sadly you do miss out on the banter and being able to chat with everyone in the green Army through the game… But fair play to everyone, unlike some places people were all responsible and took it seriously ⚽️💚

The second half started much the same, Bromsgrove did come into the game more but the Waders still looked the better side. But the longer this went on you could sense that Bromsgrove might nick it at the end 👀 infact BigAl said to Darren about 5 minutes before Bromsgrove scored the winner that this would happen who knew he had such abilities, I’ll remind him of that next time I’m doing an acca🤔

The Bromsgrove winner come in the 83rd minute from a corner and was one of their rare chances; to lose like this was particularly gutting 😪 as it was a much improved Waders display, still that’s football!

Nunny and the management team can take a lot away from this game though, it was a much improved performance from Tuesday night💚

Gutted that I missed Bully today 😶 but apparently BigAl had a good catch up 😊

We go again Tuesday night, ironically against the side that beat us 5-1.