football rambles

Workington warm up. A rare picture of their goalkeeper, Jonny Jamieson with his mouth shut. Lynn get ready to launch a free kick in during the first half. Nadiya and Sean behind the goal in the second half.

It was a cold day, but at least the pitch was playable for King's Lynn's home game against Workington yesterday. Before the game the Linnets were in 12th in the table with Workington in 5th. A win for the visitors meant they went up to 2nd, while Lynn remained in the same position in the table. It was a hard fought game, which always looked like it would bubble over into violence. King's Lynn started the brighter of the two teams, but could never really get a good run of passes together and the Workington back four looked like they could keep the visitors at bay. The best chance of the opening encounters saw Leon Mettam come close on 8 minutes, Spriggs was also doing some good runs, but couldn't get a shot in and was kept at bay by Gari Rowntree at left back for the visitors and some suspect work by the linesman. Michael Frew for Lynn was playing with shall we say a robust style that was winding Workington up. On about 35 minutes Frew was decked by Jonny Jamieson in g

Things have been pretty busy lately, and the weather has been dreadful. We had planned to go to Peterborough on Saturday, but after being stuck in traffic after Sean's game at Exing and then a downpour of snow we didn't make it. We saw a few games on TV including disappointing draws for Borussia Dortmund and then a disastrous performance by Villa at Arsenal. Hopefully, we will be back at a few games soon, but with Sean having 3 games away in a row, training on Tuesday and the weather continuing to be bad, I am not to sure when we will get back into the swing of things.