football rambles

 It's taken me a while - in fact over a week- to get this down, as the game was played on 18 December. The game was entertaining enough with Rotherham consolidating their place at the top of the league. Daniel Barlaser scoring the winner for the Millers on 66th minute. Cambridge played well enough without really threatening Rotherham and did well in defence. All in all it was a good performance if a slightly disappointing result. Rotherham probably deserved to win just about, as they just about did. The Us can take heart from the fact that they managed to go toe-to-toe with a team who were playing in the Championship last season when they were still in League 2. 

 This was my first ever trip to the Valley and I have to say I thought that it was quite a nice stadium. The day was slightly spoiled by having to get the coach down rather than going down to London and enjoying making a day and evening of it. Charlton and Cambridge are roughly in the same position in the league, but whereas despite a drubbing of Cheltenham in midweek Cambridge's results have been sliding whereas after a change at the top Charlton have improved. Charlton started off the brighter of the two teams and Cambridge were made to pay for a sluggish start when ex-Posh player Connor Washington (who also featured prominently throughout the programme fired home for the Addicks on the half hour mark. It should come as no surprise for any Cambridge fan that the Us then started to really press to get in the game. The number times they fall behind before really firing on all cylinders is developing into one of the stories of the season. For the rest of the game Cambridge seemed to

 I'm a bit late with this update, but to be honest it wasn't especially a good match and Cambridge made heavy work of putting the tie to bed, although they are more used to sharing a division with Exeter, they are currently in League 1 and the Grecians in League 2, so a more convincing win might have been expected.  Sam Nombe put the visitors ahead from the spot after just 10 minutes and although Adam May got an equaliser after 23 minutes the game was in the balance for most of the match. Joe Ironside up front looked short on help and the usually impeccable Wes Hoolahan was also out of sorts. With a fine goal scoring record going into the game, it was a surprise that Sam Smith started on the bench.  However, it was another substitute who finally resolved the issue when Harvey Knibbs came off the bench and soon after with 2 minutes left on the clock scored what was to be the winner. I am not exactly sure what happened as the linesman disallowed it with the referee overruling him