10th September 2020
MoM – Shane Bush
Playing out of position to fill the injury gaps, Bushey, our Skipper, was a ray of light in a defence that had the toughest of afternoons; contending with the newly rejuvenated and rampant Redditch side..
Alcoholic Units – None! Do not fear there was a cheeky bottle of fizz with my name on waiting at home 😘
” Its like an LP on repeat of 1980s football chants… and they were sh!t enough back then”🙄
Another trip into the Midlands for us today, Alexa promised cloudy and some showers, so I was hopeful of avoiding the soaking experienced last week ☔ I did take the Waders brolly in case – I didn’t bother with sunnies, which I would regret through most of the 90 minutes 🤨
We were advised to get there early as tickets were only available on the gate.. £11 + £2 to park…. we had a fairly good trip just slightly delayed by 2 beemers playing bumper cars! I was a little surprised to see a police presence at the ground? Perhaps they’d heard BigAl was in town 🤣 or maybe it was for the pseudo Stone Island boys, who were screwing us up as soon as we walked in 🧐🧐 lads, come on now, we were doing football back in the 70’s and 80’s; And by we, I actually mean BigAl, Chelseaboy, JT & BDK 👀 the nearest I got was River Island 🤔 or Chelsea girl as it was known back in the day 😂
It was a good attendance from the Green Army today with me BigAl, DJ, Chelseaboy, uncle Albert, Rodney, WaderLew, JT, BDK and SuperScoop
DJ insisted on a burger and ‘processco’ (otherwise known as non alcohol kopperberg) as soon as we arrived 🤣 BigAl who’d already had 2 breakfasts, also snuck one in 🐽
The dark skies turned into a torrential downpour and so we headed for the side terracing to take cover ☔ of course, as soon as it stopped it was bright sunshine..where were my sunnies 🥺
Redditch are unbeaten this season, and so it was no shock that they came out strong – even more surprising when Joe Neal put one in the back of the net in the 2nd minute 0-1 😃
Redditch were undeterred and came at us in the 8th minute, catching Kyle off his line, 1-1 😏 Redditch came close again on 15, luckily the post saved it 😱
We did get another attempt on 23 minutes when Giles thundered a shot from outside the box, from our angle it looked like it just went wide…😬
On 33 minutes Redditch took the lead 2-1 😒 and we lost Mat Hall (injured) for Trey – to say things we’re looking grim for us, would be an almighty understatement 😬 We held on at 2-1 going in to half time 😞
Big Dave tried to cheer us up with some half time refreshments 👍 SuperScoop revealed his lucky home & away pants – apparently green and orange is cutting edge for baggy Y fronts these days 😜
We stayed put at the end of the terrace for the 2nd half and Redditch came out all guns blazing and any chance of a Waders come back was dashed in the 54th minute 😞 and finally put to bed with their 4th on 82 minutes… Game over!
Interesting that there were nearly 600 in attendance, with about 20 being very vocal and goading us few away fans that had bothered to make the trip up, which was shame as it doesn’t show much class 😶 the attendance last year was about 150 🤔 I wonder if the inflated numbers are because they’ve spent big money and are winning or ‘fans’ from league clubs unable to attend their games? Either way I hope it doesn’t spoil the non league experience because today’s trip was no where near as friendly and pleasant as last seasons visit… 👀 as I’m writing this, I’m thinking back to Stourbridge last week, similar attendance, lots of Baggy fans – but a much friendlier experience ❤️
On a positive note, SuperScoop can now wash his pants and I can remove my lucky 7 CraigyD shirt 😂
We go again Saturday at home, although I’m unsure if it’s a league match against Alvechurch or a Trophy round against Carlton Town according to Pitchero? I’m guessing the former as I’m pretty sure we don’t come in at this round 🤔
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