football rambles

 Another Cambridge game and another binary score line. Not that I'm complaining however. The Us were without Joe Ironside this time, so they needed somebody else to step up and deliver the 5th win in a row. That man was Adam May. The game was decided just before half time by a wonderful strike from the midfielder. Many had probably expected Sam Smith or Harvey Knibbs to step up, but despite an opportunity that Knibbs wasted, they found it hard to fashion many chances against a resolute Crewe team who are hoping to stave off relegation.   To be honest, Crewe had most of the possession, but at the same time didn't ever really look like scoring. Lowery and Long on their right hand side probably had good games, as I think that Dunk and Brophy on the left for Cambridge seemed to be the busiest over the majority of the game. That said, Crewe are a fairly boring team and it's just a relief that the Us didn't do their usual trick of slipping up against one of the teams that the...

Although I didn't make it to any games while I was away in Staffordshire last week I did manage to visit a ground that I hadn't been to before and that ground was Crewe Alexandra's Alexandra stadium. It's a pretty nice stadium and was renovated when they were looking to be regular participants in what is now called the Championship at the start of the millennium. However after doing what they do best and developing new players that are then sold on they have found themselves to be a mid-table League 2 side. In fact it was the sale of Dean Ashton to Norwich in 2005 that was blamed for their slump that season that set them on a downward trajectory. The Alexandra stadium, which was then known as Gresty Road and for some unfathomable reason has been renamed (if it wasn't bad enough with all the sponsor changes and new grounds) has been Alex's home since 1899 and been a built stadium since 1906. It was renovated in 1999 after the Taylor Report and has the impressive ...