football rambles

 this game brought to a conclusion the pre-season games for Cambridge and for us. They start their competitive fixtures against Oxford next week. A game we will also be attending. The weather was better than forecast, but the football didn't really live up to a great game. It looked like what it was a good warm up for the season ahead. Liam Roberts had a good game in goal for Northampton and amongst other things saved a penalty. I thought Cambridge lacked a bit of end product. The seemed to float balls high and slowly into the box, which the Northampton defence dealt easily with, something hard and low would have probably caused Northampton more problems. Wes Hoolahan despite his advancing years played some really nice balls in midfield for the Us and it was clear that he had Premier League experience.  Harvey Knibbs was one player that I had been looking forward to seeing, but he didn't do loads for Cambridge before being subbed off.  Caleb   Chukwuemeka, who is the...

Well, I sank a brewery load on Christmas Day and talked a load of cobblers, so going to watch the Brewers v the Cobblers on Boxing Day was the natural choice. I hadn't been to the Pirelli for a while, so I was looking forward to the trip and the game was well worth the visit. The Brewers are currently in the top 4 of League 2 while Northampton are languishing near the foot of the league. Last season both clubs made it to the play-offs and whereas the Brewers have taken off from where they finished last season the Cobblers have struggled. They sacked Aidy Boothroyd just before Christmas, so Burton were always favourites going into this game. Neither of the teams started all that well, but it was clear that Northampton were going to sit back and hope to hit their opponents on the break, but at least they seemed to have ditched the hoof up the pitch that they were famous for last season - which actually might have encountered for their undoing. Hussey, Kee and McGurk all came ...