At last, the misery of this year's football season drew to a close with Saints drawing their last home game against Burnley 2-2 which was not enough to prevent them starting next season in League 1 on minus 10 points. Grimsby lost their game at Bournemouth 2-1 but with Chester only managing a 2-2 draw at Aldershot, this meant that for Chester to stay up and Grimsby to go down, Chester would need to overturn a 20 goal deficit, win their last match and hope Grimsby lost. Too tall an order for any club, especially Chester, and so for all intents and purposes Grimsby will survive league football. Today started slowly again. I didn't wake up until nearly 9.00 a.m. In a role reversal, Sara brought in tea and then she and Mary went off to ballet. I went to the shop and bought bacon and rolls for breakfast. I also took the glass bottles and jars to the recycling station in the Nelson Arms car park and bought a Daily Mail. Tom and I left for Southampton at 12.30 p.m. We couldn't get parked in our normal car park and had to park in Terminus Road by the Central Bridge instead. We lunched on chips with curry sauce from our usual fish and chip shop in St. Mary's Road. The game at St. Mary's was an exciting one and the Saints players gave a performance far better than they have done for most of the season and significantly better than last week at Hillsborough. Saints could easily have one the match if David McGoldrick hadn't missed a penalty but what will be will be. It all became academic when we learned that Barnsley had held Wolves to a 1-1 draw. After the match Tom and I went to Quito's and had a Mexican meal. We also watched three giant cruise ships Tom wanted chocolate brownies for a dessert but when I enquired as to whether the chocolate was fair trade and being told it probably wasn't we skipped the desserts course - besides, we were both stuffed by now anyway. We called in on Sara and Mary at Andrea's where Sara is babysitting tonight and Tom returned to fetch Mary at 9 p.m. I sat down and wrote this blog in draft form for publication later tonight.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Saints Finally Relegated; but Mariners Almost Safe
At last, the misery of this year's football season drew to a close with Saints drawing their last home game against Burnley 2-2 which was not enough to prevent them starting next season in League 1 on minus 10 points. Grimsby lost their game at Bournemouth 2-1 but with Chester only managing a 2-2 draw at Aldershot, this meant that for Chester to stay up and Grimsby to go down, Chester would need to overturn a 20 goal deficit, win their last match and hope Grimsby lost. Too tall an order for any club, especially Chester, and so for all intents and purposes Grimsby will survive league football. Today started slowly again. I didn't wake up until nearly 9.00 a.m. In a role reversal, Sara brought in tea and then she and Mary went off to ballet. I went to the shop and bought bacon and rolls for breakfast. I also took the glass bottles and jars to the recycling station in the Nelson Arms car park and bought a Daily Mail. Tom and I left for Southampton at 12.30 p.m. We couldn't get parked in our normal car park and had to park in Terminus Road by the Central Bridge instead. We lunched on chips with curry sauce from our usual fish and chip shop in St. Mary's Road. The game at St. Mary's was an exciting one and the Saints players gave a performance far better than they have done for most of the season and significantly better than last week at Hillsborough. Saints could easily have one the match if David McGoldrick hadn't missed a penalty but what will be will be. It all became academic when we learned that Barnsley had held Wolves to a 1-1 draw. After the match Tom and I went to Quito's and had a Mexican meal. We also watched three giant cruise ships Tom wanted chocolate brownies for a dessert but when I enquired as to whether the chocolate was fair trade and being told it probably wasn't we skipped the desserts course - besides, we were both stuffed by now anyway. We called in on Sara and Mary at Andrea's where Sara is babysitting tonight and Tom returned to fetch Mary at 9 p.m. I sat down and wrote this blog in draft form for publication later tonight.
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