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Aug. 16th, 2008
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Aug. 16th, 2008 09:40 pmI'm happy to say the campaign to award Rebecca Adlington the Damehood she deserves is in full swing - if you're on Facebook please join this group. Thanks so much.
Havant & Waterlooville v Bromley this afternoon. As I turned to head for the stand after buying my programme from Tracey, I saw Steph standing there with a handful of envelopes, one of which she handed to me. "Thank you," I said to her, and she replied "No, thank you." On taking my seat in the stand I opened it - it was a card to say thanks for coming to her party and for her present.
That turned out to be the highlight of the afternoon (along with the excellent bacon roll at half-time). Hawks lost 1-0 and to be honest they were absolute pants. Just after the goal one of the old men in my part of the stand observed "It's like taking candy from a baby." Hawks never looked like creating a chance for the first hour; then it seemed the introduction of Craig Watkins was going to spur Hawks into action, but after two speculative attacks, both easily dealt with by the Bromley defence and keeper, they fizzled out. For the rest of the game, whenever Hawks did look like threatening, either the defence mopped it up comfortably or Matt Gray or Gary Holloway would shoot hopelessly wide.
It may be early in the campaign, but if you're going to give goals away, have no firepower up front, and take a pathetic one point from nine including two home defeats, you can forget about promotion. This season, which everybody at Westleigh Park was expecting to be the year when Hawks garlanded themselves with glory, is turning to shit.
Into the clubhouse to drown my sorrows with a Magners. No comfort on the classified results : East Stirlingshire lost 2-1 at Annan.
Watched the opening shows of X Factor 5. As I've said in previous years, I take a guilty pleasure in seeing all the terrible singers who think they're brilliant. The gold award for annoyingness has to go to Ant and Seb, the Welsh duo who wouldn't take no for an answer and just carried on starting new songs until they were ejected by security - and then sang again to Simon when the judges were on their way out at the end.
Of the real contenders, I like the girl group Chaos and a lass called Aimee. There was also Rachel, who's had a real hard and often misspent life; she is a brilliant singer, I do believe she deserves a shot at redemption and I'd like her to do well on the show, but I do hope we're not going to have sob stories every week this year. I'll also be rooting for Satin Dolls, a young female harmony group shown on ITV2 as first getting four rapid No's but progressing to boot camp thanks to the intervention of Holly Willoughby and then their own last-minute plea to Simon. I really like their vocal harmonies so hope their persistence pays off.
Havant & Waterlooville v Bromley this afternoon. As I turned to head for the stand after buying my programme from Tracey, I saw Steph standing there with a handful of envelopes, one of which she handed to me. "Thank you," I said to her, and she replied "No, thank you." On taking my seat in the stand I opened it - it was a card to say thanks for coming to her party and for her present.
That turned out to be the highlight of the afternoon (along with the excellent bacon roll at half-time). Hawks lost 1-0 and to be honest they were absolute pants. Just after the goal one of the old men in my part of the stand observed "It's like taking candy from a baby." Hawks never looked like creating a chance for the first hour; then it seemed the introduction of Craig Watkins was going to spur Hawks into action, but after two speculative attacks, both easily dealt with by the Bromley defence and keeper, they fizzled out. For the rest of the game, whenever Hawks did look like threatening, either the defence mopped it up comfortably or Matt Gray or Gary Holloway would shoot hopelessly wide.
It may be early in the campaign, but if you're going to give goals away, have no firepower up front, and take a pathetic one point from nine including two home defeats, you can forget about promotion. This season, which everybody at Westleigh Park was expecting to be the year when Hawks garlanded themselves with glory, is turning to shit.
Into the clubhouse to drown my sorrows with a Magners. No comfort on the classified results : East Stirlingshire lost 2-1 at Annan.
Watched the opening shows of X Factor 5. As I've said in previous years, I take a guilty pleasure in seeing all the terrible singers who think they're brilliant. The gold award for annoyingness has to go to Ant and Seb, the Welsh duo who wouldn't take no for an answer and just carried on starting new songs until they were ejected by security - and then sang again to Simon when the judges were on their way out at the end.
Of the real contenders, I like the girl group Chaos and a lass called Aimee. There was also Rachel, who's had a real hard and often misspent life; she is a brilliant singer, I do believe she deserves a shot at redemption and I'd like her to do well on the show, but I do hope we're not going to have sob stories every week this year. I'll also be rooting for Satin Dolls, a young female harmony group shown on ITV2 as first getting four rapid No's but progressing to boot camp thanks to the intervention of Holly Willoughby and then their own last-minute plea to Simon. I really like their vocal harmonies so hope their persistence pays off.
