football rambles

 Since the Ely v Gorleston game, I have also seen the reserves beat Gaminglay 2-1 in the cup and the first team go down to another 3-0 defeat at home, this time at the hands of Lakenheath. This was all made a bit better though by a fabulous game at the Abbey on Saturday, well fabulous if you aren't an Ipswich fan. Cambridge have got into a bad habit lately of letting in goals early and on Saturday they didn't make an exception. The only difference was that this time they managed to hold out for 10 minutes after starting atrociously. A mistake by Mitov in the Cambridge goal let Sone Aluko in to open the scoring and to send the large Ipswich following into ecstasy. On 36 minutes lightning struck twice when Mitov came out hesitantly and allowed Alunko in to make it 2-0. It seemed imperative that Cambridge got something before  the break and they did when man of the match James Brophy scored from range to half the deficit. The second half was all Cambridge and they came close on se

 This was not an enjoyable game at all. It rained all game and when you go down 1-0 at 2:59 when kick off is 3:00 against the league leaders, it's never likely to end well. Gorleston scored in the first minute, added another before the break and scored again after kick off in the second half. I am glad that I spent a great deal of the second half in the bar looking out through the window as this was a truly abject performance.  There were some new seats in the stand and the bar prices are good though, so at least Ely are doing things right off the pitch, even if things quite often don't seem to be going so well on it.