Woke this morning at Champney's and after an early morning swim and a lovely healthy breakfast spent the morning reading Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" before setting off for Southampton to meet up with Sara, Tom and Mary and pick up Tom to take him to the Saints FA Cup tie against Ipswich Town at St Mary's. Everything went according to plan and Tom and I arrived at St. Mary's at around 2 p.m. . After having had a look around the shop we went into the ground remarking that it was before Christmas when we last sat in our season ticket seats in the Chapel Stand - and that was the Johnstone's Paint Trophy tie against Norwich. Saints scored two great goals - the first by Wayne Thomas was a "cracker" from an acute angle and some 40 yards out from the goal. The second, by Antonio, came off a rebound following a free kick by Ricky Lambert. Ipswich scored a late goal about 10 minute before the end and a five minute period of injury time had all 20,000-odd in the Stadium on the edge of their seats. Fortunately, Saints hung on and the final result - 2-1 to Saints assured them a place in the Fifth Round. The draw is tomorrow - I bet we get either Portsmouth of Tottenham! Tonight we went to the Village Hall to see the Winterslow Drama Group's production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" with Mary playing a "bubble fairy". A really entertaining panto with some great acting (and ad-libbing) from the cast. An entertaining day all round - onwards and upwards for the Saints, onwards and upwards from Jack!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Onwards and Upwards
Woke this morning at Champney's and after an early morning swim and a lovely healthy breakfast spent the morning reading Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" before setting off for Southampton to meet up with Sara, Tom and Mary and pick up Tom to take him to the Saints FA Cup tie against Ipswich Town at St Mary's. Everything went according to plan and Tom and I arrived at St. Mary's at around 2 p.m. . After having had a look around the shop we went into the ground remarking that it was before Christmas when we last sat in our season ticket seats in the Chapel Stand - and that was the Johnstone's Paint Trophy tie against Norwich. Saints scored two great goals - the first by Wayne Thomas was a "cracker" from an acute angle and some 40 yards out from the goal. The second, by Antonio, came off a rebound following a free kick by Ricky Lambert. Ipswich scored a late goal about 10 minute before the end and a five minute period of injury time had all 20,000-odd in the Stadium on the edge of their seats. Fortunately, Saints hung on and the final result - 2-1 to Saints assured them a place in the Fifth Round. The draw is tomorrow - I bet we get either Portsmouth of Tottenham! Tonight we went to the Village Hall to see the Winterslow Drama Group's production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" with Mary playing a "bubble fairy". A really entertaining panto with some great acting (and ad-libbing) from the cast. An entertaining day all round - onwards and upwards for the Saints, onwards and upwards from Jack!
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