football rambles

On Saturday King's Lynn took on Marine at the Walks in the Northern Premier League. Marine are a team that I remember from games against Matlock and Buxton when I was a kid. They were always sturdy opposition. Some things haven't changed. They were in mid-table before the match and a couple of points behind Lynn. The game started off in typical King's Lynn fashion, with them looking robust going forward and vulnerable when hit on the break. Despite the somewhat frantic start the first real chance of the game came on 19 minutes when Dan Jacob came close with a header. However, Lynn's vulnerability on the counter attack was again highlighted when Andy Fowler went up to the other end and scored a well taken goal to put the visitors ahead. After Marine had taken the lead Lynn pushed and pushed for an equaliser. The next real chance fell for Marine on 35 minutes, again for Fowler and again on a counter attack, but this time he was unable to convert. Lynn did get t

On Saturday we were back down the Unwin for another lacklustre performance by the Robins, so apologies for another short match report. Ely started off well enough, but both teams seemed prone to mistakes without creating many great chances. The first real chance was when the visitors had a shot cleared off the line on 31 minutes. However, Clacton did take the lead from a good through ball on 37 minutes to take Clacton in with the lead at the break. in the second half Ely were pressing, but never really looked like breaching the Clacton goal. They managed to clear the ball off the line twice from 2 Clacton attacks, so the game finished 1-0 to the visitors and there wasn't much sign of improvement.

Yesterday was non-league day, so like almost every other Saturday we headed out to a non-league game. Fortunately, Ely were playing in Kirkley and as Crusaders had a match in the morning there was no way to make it there, so instead we travelled to King's Lynn to see the Linnets take on the bloods of Droylsden. After a few years of having things their own way the Linnets are now in the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League and despite having the second biggest attendances in the league they are no longer having things their own way and can no longer be described as big fish in a small pond. Droylsden, mainly because of their proximity to a lot of other clubs in and around Manchester have the smallest support in the division, although they once spent some time in the Conference, much to the chagrin of WELFs (Whingeing Ex-league Fans) who never relished a journey there. Things have been going downhill for the Bloods though, who have recently found themselves on the

August 2013 by jim_bomb on Grooveshark http://grooveshark.com/playlist/August+2013/90107883 It's taken me a while to get round to this and funnily enough there were a fe Ukrainian and Russian bands in this month's playlist. 1 Бумбокс – Звёзды не ездят в метро This band have been going for a while, but seem to be flavour of the month in Kyiv with all age groups at the moment 2 ...И Друг Мой Грузовик – Del Piero Another Ukrainian band. One that I saw live a few years ago about the ex-Juventus player. 3 Кино – Электричка a bit of classic Russian rock here. Some people on the bridge were playing Kino songs and we also saw the mural for Victor Tsoi that has just opened up in Kyiv. This song more or less sums up my trip to work too. 4 Hladno Pivo – Šamar A bit of Croatian punk here to spice things up a bit. 5 Воплі Відоплясова – День народження Probably the most well known Ukrainian band of the last 20 years. 6 Talco - Bella Ciao The Napoli fans were actuall

Unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries on the day of the Obolon game, but luckily I have this one of me, Sean and Andriy.

As you can see there was some quite heavy rain on this evening. We got a real soaking on the way, but it was our own fault as we left it to the last minute to leave the chicken shack!

The old fire engine is still there, but not as much in use as it used to be now the first team have moved to Olymipiskiy.