The Anonymous Widower

A 92% Day!

One doesn’t want to score it higher than that, as I might shilt myself.

But I’ve gone to football a lot in the last three years since C died and I’ve not had such a good day for some time.

I had decided that I would travel First Class as a treat and I’d already bought the tickets for £36.60 on Wednesday, so after I’d made my sandwiches, I took the 141 bus to  Moorgate and walked through Finsbury Circus to Liverpool Street to catch the 12:58 to Ipswich. It  meant, if I’d driven, which I can’t, it would probably have spent more and taken longer. I also wouldn’t have had a large table on which to lay my paper and eat my lunch.

The train was a couple of minutes late into Ipswich, but this didn’t matter, as I’d have preferred to sit in the soft seat in the train, rather than the hard seat in the Britannia Stand. But despite the delay, I was well in time for the start of the match.

The match itself was spoilt by the strong wind and is best summed up by the comments of the Ipswich manager; Paul Jewell.

Delighted with win. Wind was awful, so would have taken ugly 1-0 win. But played some good football second half. Connor great goal. Pleased for Luca.

I would add that Town could easily have scored five instead of three, especially as Tamas Priskin hit the post and Grant Leadbitter missed a penalty and also hit a spectacular effort, that was deflected wide.

We also had a double sending off when Sheffield United decided to try the self-destruction route.

So all-in-all it was first class entertainment.

I’ve just watched the match on The Football League Show on the BBC’s iPlayer.  It’s about thirty minutes in. It’s worth searching for, just to see Connor Wickham’s goal, where he takes the ball in his own half , beats everybody and then draws the goalkeeper and puts the ball in the empty net. It will be a clip that will be shown and shown.

After the match I took the 17:09 train back to London and another 141 bus got me home by seven. I even had time to pick-up a chicken korma for supper in Marks at Liverpool Street Station.

It would be nice if watching football was always so stress free.  But then most sides aren’t as co-operative as Sheffield United!

One slight blot on the day was that the rice with the chicken korma was rather crunchy.

February 5, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Sport, Transport/Travel | Buses, Football, Ipswich Town, sheff, Trains