Post by Jobber on Apr 3, 2011 16:13:13 GMT -5
WOOOOOOWWWWWWW...what a day
This is certainly a day i know ill never forget for a long time.. things started off so well.. untill we got to junction 27 then we were informed that the bus has lost its power and was firing out black smoke from the back, so onto the hard shoulder was the only option we had left so we pulled over and the driver called his office to get another coach out to us.. we managed to continue in the broken down coach for about 2 miles when we managed to get onto a slip road where we were met by the traffic police who insisted we moved as we not parked in a safe place..errr broke down generally means that u park us as your vehicle is 'broken down' but they insisted we moved so we managed about 1 mile an hour to the nearest lay bye off the motorway towards Mansfield.. an hour passes and a coach pulled up..well i say coach i was actually looking for Olive from on the buses to get off with a conductor.. you got the picture.. it was a nail and it stunk like rotten fish.. oh and no toilet on board.. just what ya need on a journey to Middlesborough when your already an hour behind schedule. we finally got to Middlesborough and its still the same hell hole as i remembered from last year apart from a massive what can only be descibed as a keep net was randomly erected in the middle of nowhere. random but quite nice..ish...
Well on arrival to the ground i was informed that King had been rested and Weale was back between the sticks, so i wentround to the club shop to kill some time and i saw Roy 'chubby'Brown outside the ground(looking back i actually think it was hime that reffed the game cos he was definalty a stand up comedian.. or should i say he was a JOKE)
The game started brightle and the Yak came up the goods to give us the lead within the first 5mins.. from that moment on the ref definatly had it in for Yakubu..and anyone else in a blue shirt come to think of it.. The ref was giving free kicks that were perfectly good challenges and he was waving play on for attrocious fouls.. this got the city fans backs up then Boro broke through and Marvin Emnes scored his 2nd goal agaisnt city this season after he scored the winner for Swansea earlier in the season. this was againt the run of play but we were getting caught out at the back at nearly every opportunity when they broke.
Yakubu was booked for standing still then Bruma was booked for a well timed challenge(this turned out to be costly later in the game) then Vassell won a 50/50 and was booked then 1 of there players made a dirth shin high tackle and the ref looked at it like it never happened. Yakubu was brought down for a stone wall penalty but that got waved on then Camera was brought down in the box.. guess what??? well done.. the ref waved play on.. bet you cant get what happened next?... yes Vassell was pushed in the back in the box and yes u got it right... play on... i know its the beginning of April but April fools dont last 2 days... The ref was defo not in leicesters good books as you can probably tell but on the stroke of half time The Yak somehow used Sol Bamba to get the ball over the line but he was awarded with his 2nd goal of the day.. The Boro fans were singing fat greedy b*^tard to their once upon a time goal machine but he took it all in his stride and hit em where it hurts.. in the net cos 4 mins into the second half he took the ball just inside the Boro half and ran through to slot the ball past the keeper to make it 3-1 to City and complete his hat trick.
Tackles were still going in but it was only our players that were being cautioned for their actions then a great effort from nowhere saw the homeside pull 1 back to make it 3-2 to City.. they started pressing us and a well taken free kick beat Weale but struck the post then a well hit shot was hammered into the city box and apparently it hit an arm and the ref pointed to the spot.. upsted Arca only to see his spot kick saved by Weale, then out of nowhere the ref brandished a red card for Bruma for what could only be dissent.. so city down to 10 men and 6 other players on yellows and with the refs track record none of our players dare make a challege on the basis of they know what would come next..
Then surprise surprise with 4 mins left on the clock a Boro player made his way into the book for what seemed to be the least worthable yellow in the whole game.. the city fans started to break out to the carnival de paris tune(the tune that we celebrate to at the walkers once the goal scorers name has been mentioned) Camera was replaced by Waghorn in the dying minutes but before he left the pitch he made his way over to the ref to shake his hand.. sarcastic or what.. you decide.. then up went the board with 6 additional minutes on it. bearing in mind that my mate had Yakubu to score 1st and city to win 3-2 @ 175/1 so 6 minutes is the last thing he wanted to see and it turned out that the other 1200 or so didnt want to see it either becase in the 4th minute of injury the home side got an equaliser..GUTTED..
What a horrible feeling.. and what a long way home felling like we had just suffered a defeat then we found out that the ref lived 9 miles from Middleborough.. SAY NO MORE.. roll on next week..
This is certainly a day i know ill never forget for a long time.. things started off so well.. untill we got to junction 27 then we were informed that the bus has lost its power and was firing out black smoke from the back, so onto the hard shoulder was the only option we had left so we pulled over and the driver called his office to get another coach out to us.. we managed to continue in the broken down coach for about 2 miles when we managed to get onto a slip road where we were met by the traffic police who insisted we moved as we not parked in a safe place..errr broke down generally means that u park us as your vehicle is 'broken down' but they insisted we moved so we managed about 1 mile an hour to the nearest lay bye off the motorway towards Mansfield.. an hour passes and a coach pulled up..well i say coach i was actually looking for Olive from on the buses to get off with a conductor.. you got the picture.. it was a nail and it stunk like rotten fish.. oh and no toilet on board.. just what ya need on a journey to Middlesborough when your already an hour behind schedule. we finally got to Middlesborough and its still the same hell hole as i remembered from last year apart from a massive what can only be descibed as a keep net was randomly erected in the middle of nowhere. random but quite nice..ish...
Well on arrival to the ground i was informed that King had been rested and Weale was back between the sticks, so i wentround to the club shop to kill some time and i saw Roy 'chubby'Brown outside the ground(looking back i actually think it was hime that reffed the game cos he was definalty a stand up comedian.. or should i say he was a JOKE)
The game started brightle and the Yak came up the goods to give us the lead within the first 5mins.. from that moment on the ref definatly had it in for Yakubu..and anyone else in a blue shirt come to think of it.. The ref was giving free kicks that were perfectly good challenges and he was waving play on for attrocious fouls.. this got the city fans backs up then Boro broke through and Marvin Emnes scored his 2nd goal agaisnt city this season after he scored the winner for Swansea earlier in the season. this was againt the run of play but we were getting caught out at the back at nearly every opportunity when they broke.
Yakubu was booked for standing still then Bruma was booked for a well timed challenge(this turned out to be costly later in the game) then Vassell won a 50/50 and was booked then 1 of there players made a dirth shin high tackle and the ref looked at it like it never happened. Yakubu was brought down for a stone wall penalty but that got waved on then Camera was brought down in the box.. guess what??? well done.. the ref waved play on.. bet you cant get what happened next?... yes Vassell was pushed in the back in the box and yes u got it right... play on... i know its the beginning of April but April fools dont last 2 days... The ref was defo not in leicesters good books as you can probably tell but on the stroke of half time The Yak somehow used Sol Bamba to get the ball over the line but he was awarded with his 2nd goal of the day.. The Boro fans were singing fat greedy b*^tard to their once upon a time goal machine but he took it all in his stride and hit em where it hurts.. in the net cos 4 mins into the second half he took the ball just inside the Boro half and ran through to slot the ball past the keeper to make it 3-1 to City and complete his hat trick.
Tackles were still going in but it was only our players that were being cautioned for their actions then a great effort from nowhere saw the homeside pull 1 back to make it 3-2 to City.. they started pressing us and a well taken free kick beat Weale but struck the post then a well hit shot was hammered into the city box and apparently it hit an arm and the ref pointed to the spot.. upsted Arca only to see his spot kick saved by Weale, then out of nowhere the ref brandished a red card for Bruma for what could only be dissent.. so city down to 10 men and 6 other players on yellows and with the refs track record none of our players dare make a challege on the basis of they know what would come next..
Then surprise surprise with 4 mins left on the clock a Boro player made his way into the book for what seemed to be the least worthable yellow in the whole game.. the city fans started to break out to the carnival de paris tune(the tune that we celebrate to at the walkers once the goal scorers name has been mentioned) Camera was replaced by Waghorn in the dying minutes but before he left the pitch he made his way over to the ref to shake his hand.. sarcastic or what.. you decide.. then up went the board with 6 additional minutes on it. bearing in mind that my mate had Yakubu to score 1st and city to win 3-2 @ 175/1 so 6 minutes is the last thing he wanted to see and it turned out that the other 1200 or so didnt want to see it either becase in the 4th minute of injury the home side got an equaliser..GUTTED..
What a horrible feeling.. and what a long way home felling like we had just suffered a defeat then we found out that the ref lived 9 miles from Middleborough.. SAY NO MORE.. roll on next week..
