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My Posh Day: Adi Mowles


Yeovil is a dump . . . but pastie was good!

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Published Date: 17 November 2008
Current form: I've been suffering since 73. When I started going Sir Noel Cantwell had just taken over and we were looking up just hoping to avoid re-election.
The next season was of course glorious history and I presumed it would be ever thus.

How wrong can one be!

I am a season ticket holder in London Road and I try to make the vast majority of games home and away. I have only missed one game all se
ason so far.

Pre-match: I left home at 7.30am to pick up Nilesh Patel then Boozy Baz and Glenda and we made our way to St Neots where we picked up Sean and Ian.

Although my car can take seven the combined largeness of Me, Glenda, Ian and Sean meant that six was the maximum and even that was a squeeze.

We made incredibly good time despite the weight issues and after a 20-minute stop we were in Yeovil by 11.30am.

And my god what a dump! I have never seen so many boarded-up shops and more distressing pubs in my life but we found a place eventually that proudly boasted it had Sky and did food.

We watched some premiership rubbish so Sky was indeed available but our quest for food was thwarted when the landlord announced the 'chef' wasn't in until 4pm. If anybody reading this has shares in Walkers crisps you are in credit this week.

Half-time: Not for the first time this season the main topic of discussion was sheer wonderment as to how on earth we weren't five up, such was our superiority.

Went to the men's toilets only to discover there were two vases of flowers next to the sinks.

That is proof to me that the game of football as I have loved it for years is finally dead.

Atmosphere: We tried our best but we were behind the goal in the open so any attempts to make a noise meant our dulcit tones were swept away in the wind towards the town centre (such as it is).

I doubt they were heard though as I hear Poundstretcher shuts at three in Yeovil.

Their support was abysmal and they had the worst announcer I have ever heard who quite simply was unable to speak properly and I don't just mean due to the ridiculous local accent.

The ground is everything our new ground must not be, characterless, built by MFI and situated miles away from the town in a horrible industrial estate.

Pastie was good though - very large to say the least but the caterers will never get a job at London Road as the inside was actually hot!

Full-time: As has been the case so many times this season the second-half performance never got anywhere near the first but unlike most years gone by we seem to have a deep rooted desire amongst the side and that is getting us through some difficult times.

Zakuani was immense, I don't think he missed anything all game and we really must do everything we can to keep him.

I thought the ref was inept. I gather he is in his first season on the list, and unless he improves massively I can not see him returning next season. Frankly he was bad enough to be in the Premiership.

Overall matchday rating: 7
Posh fans: 8
Their fans: 4 (pathetic)



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  • Last Updated: 24 November 2008 10:00 AM
  • Source: Peterborough ET
  • Location: Peterborough
 
 

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