Woke to a very bright and sunny morning - the first day of the new football season too! Cooked breakfast of bacon for the kids and myself. We didn't have much time this morning before Tom and I set off for Southampton to watch the first game of the Saint's "League 1 Tour against Millwall. With a starting position of -10 points there is much ground to be made up and Alan Pardew in his programme notes emphasised that his hope is to get the 10 points cleared as soon as possible and to try and end mid-table. It was good to find both Andy's and their families there - indeed everyone around us has renewed their season tickets so the "family" is complete. Andy next to me has moved to Chepstow but will continue to commute to home matches. We had a minute's applause for the life of Sir Bobby Robson which was observed with good humour. Saints started lively enough and were holding their own up to half time - the teams going in on a level 0-0. Saints scored a cracking goal early on in the second half but shortly afterwards Millwall were awarded a dubious penalty which was saved by the magic of Kelvin Davies who, unfortunately conceded a corner kick. Millwall took this and again a goal was saved but at the expense of another corner kick. Unfortunately this third close encounter with the goal mouth proved disastrous and caused the game to finish 1-1. At least Saints have got one point deducted from their penalty and now only have -9. Poor Norwich were thrashed 1-7 at home to Colchester and Swindon went down 5-0 at home to Gillingham. Following the match I queued for tickets for the Swindon away game on Tuesday week but the queue was moving so slowly that I had to abandon the idea to make sure I was not caught out by the eagle-eyed traffic wardens in Southampton. Hopefully I can get tickets on Tuesday evening when I go to the League Cup tie against Northampton. Tom and I stopped by Carlo's Ices on the way home. Tonight I had planned to take Mary dog racing (she had been very keen when I mentioned it this morning) but seemed to be in quite a mood when I got home. Needless to say, we didn't go and Tom and I played cricket on the Wii. England scored 32 for no wicket after 6 overs. Much better than is real life. At Headingley today the Australians left England with an almost impossible target of over 300 runs in the lead and with an Innings to spare. At close of play England were 82 for 5 in their second innings - still some 260-odd runs behind with only 5 wickets left! I really can't see how England have any hope of winning this Fourth Test unless it rains solidly for the next three days. The weather has now turned and it looks like we are in for our scorching summer at last! We ended the evening watching The Matrix - a complex Sci-Fi movie.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Back to St. Mary's - The New Season Begins
Woke to a very bright and sunny morning - the first day of the new football season too! Cooked breakfast of bacon for the kids and myself. We didn't have much time this morning before Tom and I set off for Southampton to watch the first game of the Saint's "League 1 Tour against Millwall. With a starting position of -10 points there is much ground to be made up and Alan Pardew in his programme notes emphasised that his hope is to get the 10 points cleared as soon as possible and to try and end mid-table. It was good to find both Andy's and their families there - indeed everyone around us has renewed their season tickets so the "family" is complete. Andy next to me has moved to Chepstow but will continue to commute to home matches. We had a minute's applause for the life of Sir Bobby Robson which was observed with good humour. Saints started lively enough and were holding their own up to half time - the teams going in on a level 0-0. Saints scored a cracking goal early on in the second half but shortly afterwards Millwall were awarded a dubious penalty which was saved by the magic of Kelvin Davies who, unfortunately conceded a corner kick. Millwall took this and again a goal was saved but at the expense of another corner kick. Unfortunately this third close encounter with the goal mouth proved disastrous and caused the game to finish 1-1. At least Saints have got one point deducted from their penalty and now only have -9. Poor Norwich were thrashed 1-7 at home to Colchester and Swindon went down 5-0 at home to Gillingham. Following the match I queued for tickets for the Swindon away game on Tuesday week but the queue was moving so slowly that I had to abandon the idea to make sure I was not caught out by the eagle-eyed traffic wardens in Southampton. Hopefully I can get tickets on Tuesday evening when I go to the League Cup tie against Northampton. Tom and I stopped by Carlo's Ices on the way home. Tonight I had planned to take Mary dog racing (she had been very keen when I mentioned it this morning) but seemed to be in quite a mood when I got home. Needless to say, we didn't go and Tom and I played cricket on the Wii. England scored 32 for no wicket after 6 overs. Much better than is real life. At Headingley today the Australians left England with an almost impossible target of over 300 runs in the lead and with an Innings to spare. At close of play England were 82 for 5 in their second innings - still some 260-odd runs behind with only 5 wickets left! I really can't see how England have any hope of winning this Fourth Test unless it rains solidly for the next three days. The weather has now turned and it looks like we are in for our scorching summer at last! We ended the evening watching The Matrix - a complex Sci-Fi movie.
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