football rambles

Well, Ely City have had a few good results of late. I missed a couple of games, when I went to Cambridge United v Kettering and then the weekend after when I was in Poznan, but the Robins carried on with their good form on Saturday. Things got off to a flyer against Norwich United when Chadwick fired the ball home from inside a crowded box to put the Robins 1-0 up on 7 minutes. Ely could have and should have extended this lead with Grant Robbins and Chadders again coming close in the 10 minutes that followed. The Ely forwards looked a bit makeshift with Grant Robbins and Scott Fielding stepping in for a suspended Robbie Mason ( no surprises there we have a sweepstake on how many cards he will pick up this season) and an awol and not sorely missed Nick Impey, but after 40 minutes they realistically have had 4 goals. For once the midfield looked solid and with Big Ben Lawrence making his come back Ely looked a bit more solid in defence. However, as often happens Ely decided to implode. O

Here’s a playlist of artists who appeared on the Factory record label. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any Stockholm Monsters’ stuff or anything by Crispy Ambulance, but there are still a few decent tunes here: Joy Division - Digital The Durutti Column - The Fields of Athenry Cabaret Voltaire - Baader Meinhof Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Talking Loud And Clear New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Happy Mondays - W.F.L. A Certain Ratio - The Big E Section 25 - Inspiration E.S.G. - Bam Bam Jam The Wake - Carbrain Quando Quango - Love Tempo - Remix James - Hymn From A Village Anna Domino - Land of My Dreams The Railway Children - Something So Good Electronic - Idiot Country The Other Two - Superhighways spotify:user:jim_bomb:playlist:4PFiSkv4stOPMtqzGe60nI http://open.spotify.com/user/jim_bomb/playlist/4PFiSkv4stOPMtqzGe60nI

Yesterday we went to see Kettering Town play Cambridge United, so I thought it might be good to look at a club who have hit the headlines on several occassions over the last few years. Poppies chairman Imraan Ladak must be saddened to see that Mark Cooper will be moving to replace Darren Ferguson in his role of manager at Peterborough. Especially as Cooper got Kettering promoted from the Conference North and has now fired them to the higher echelons of the Conference National. This was after a couple of ill fated managers who seemed like pblicity stunts filling the role at Rockingham Park with both ex player Ron Atkinson and Paul Gascoigne failing to ignite anything on the field. In fact the 39 days that Gazza was in charge at Kettering were perhaps some of the most bizarre and he was finall made to quit after one bottle of booze too many. A little known fact is that Kettering are one of the oldest clubs in the World being formed in 1872. They climbed through 12 divisions to reach the

Yesterday me and Sean finally got to what many others wouldn't term as proper football, but when you have suffered so many games at the Unwin, it's definitely what we would term proper football. The game was Cambridge United v Kettering and it was an entertaining game even if the result and the weather conditions weren't exactly ideal. Just before the game started I saw a few bos with Sky cameras and someone who looked like Barry the barstad Fry stood out side the place for the suits. Now Barry Fry is not the most popular person at Cambridge United, so I took no notice and thought that I had been mistaken. However, it turns out that it was the last game in charge of Kettering for manager Mark Cooper, who will be joining Barry and the boys at the not very posh Peterborough club as of today. Anyway, his team gave him a fairly decent send off and went 1-0 up on 90 seconds with an own goal bouncing over the unfortunate Danny Potter's head. Cambridge tried to hit back at Ket

A few days ago I said that I was longing for some proper football and I did toy with the idea of going to Cambridge V Kidderminster, but I wouldn't have had time to get back for the bonfire night display, so I decided to go even further down the pyramid and visit Ely Reserves against Lakenheath in the Cambridgeshire league. The crowd was pretty low as you would expect, but the standard was not much different to the Ridgeons League and Steve Bell and Tom Beech, who are perhaps more associated with the first team were having a run out for the reserves. Lakenheath also brought a few fans who seemed most intent on barracking the poor lad who was running the line than watching the game. Things started off badly for the second string Robins when Lakenheath scored on 4 minutes. However 3 minutes later Dean Missen was clean through ang got brought down in the box. The defender was rightly given his marching orders, although the Lakenheath fans were busy moaning that he was offside and ther

Here's my second playlist on Spotify that I put together yesterday: Slowdive – Alison Chapterhouse – Mesmerise My Bloody Valentine – Soon Ride – Vapour Trail Drop Nineteens – Winona Moose – Play God Curve – Coming Up Roses Catherine Wheel – Eat My Dust You Insensitive F*** Amusement Parks On Fire – You Made Me Realise Amusement Parks On Fire – Blackout Flying Saucer Attack – In The Light Of Time The Airfields – The Long Way Home Lush – Ladykillers Pale Saints – Throwing Back The Apple Stereolab – Ping Pong - 2006 Remastered LP Version Spiritualized – Soul On Fire The Telescopes – High On Fire Cocteau Twins – Iceblink Luck Asobi Seksu – It's Too Late Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange The Boo Radleys – Barney (...And Me) Kitchens Of Distinction – Drive That Fast M83 – Violet Tree Sigur Ros – Gong Architecture In Helsinki – Tiny Paintings Cranes – Sleepwalking http://open.spotify.com/user/jim_bomb/playlist/6oLoMl1qFJ09KcaRaxqmNp spotify:user:jim_bomb:playlist:6oLoMl1qFJ09Kc