football rambles

Note on photos top to bottom: The travelling Worthing fans. Worthing on the attack. View of the main stand from behind the goal

Now I have to be careful here, as I believe that there is no such thing as a good place or bad place, but that your experiences shape the way you view a place. It is especially disappointing when you go to a place you are looking forward to and then find out that it doesn't live up to your expectations. Cambridge City's City Ground on Milton Road was one of these places. I was expecting a happy and friendly community focused club, but what I found was a miserable bunch of bastards. On the plus side the ground is fairly attractive and easy to get to as the bus to Ely stops outside the ground, the game was fairly open and City could feel hard done by that they didn't manage to win the game, as they had oodles of chances and the only real chance Worthing had was the penalty that they put away. The players were all sporting despite Worthing, who have the nickname 'the Rebels' having participated in the game with a record number of red cards in the previous week. On the ...

Well I finally have the Internet here in Ely and the last 2 weekends have seen me take in Ely City v Harwich & Parkeston in the Eastern Counties League Premier Division and Cambridge City v Worthing in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup. Both games involved a team in black and white stripes play a team in all red, in both games the home team could easily have felt hard done by and both games involved teams from Cambridgeshire take on teams from the seaside. However, there were also a lot of differences between these 2 games, which I am about to expand on