football rambles

 What an end to the season. Before April it looked like Cambridge were destined for relegation, a good run of games meant that they gave themselves a chance of staying up, but a defeat in midweek to Burton meant that Sunday saw them needing to beat Forest Green and that neither MK Dons or Morecambe could get a result. Forest Green who had already finished bottom meant Cambridge were hopeful for the win, but the other permutations made it look like a difficult task. Added to that you never know which version of Cambridge is going to turn up. Fortunately, it was the good Cambridge that took to the pitch. Harrison Dunk, who as a defender doesn't have a massive reputation for scoring seems to keep on getting goals and he managed to get the ball over the line in a bit of a scramble on 25 minutes.  It was 2 before halftime when Sam Smith doubled the lead with a fantastic strike. Before the ball went in it looked so much like it was going to go over that he looked away in disappointm...

While we're on the subject of badges, if we were. I saw a bloke on Ely market who was selling all sorts of attributki, as the Ukrainian call them, or football tat that I waste money on and then put in cupboard, so what could I do, of course I bought some. One of the items I was tempted by, but didn't get was a Forest Green Rovers badge. The first time I cam across Forest Green Rovers was when they were playing Burton Albion and were coached by Villa legends, Nigel Spink and Paul Birch. They managed a 2-2 draw and at the time were near the bottom of the Conferenc. They have since established themselves as a Confernece team with few resources compared with some of the other teams in this league. The starngest thing about them though is the fact that they have a badge which is a complete rip off of the Barcelona crest. It probably isn't a coincidence, but all I can find out about it is that 'it has the flag of St. George and looks like Barcelona's badge'. St. Georg...