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London Nights
Aug. 23rd, 2011 11:45 amLin and Philip stopped me on my way to the breakout area wanting updates on Celeb BB - they've stopped watching because of the move to a 10pm start time. While I stayed up last night so was able to fill them in, I won't be able to keep that up, so they're going to have to rely on 5 On Demand...
Happy news in email - my application for a hospitality ticket to the Olympic women's football third place play-off at Coventry has been successful.
Up to the Smoke after work for the Fish's replay with Chichester. The bar was well stocked with real ales from the Brentwood Brewery. I went for an excellent 'Chockwork Orange'.
Stood in 'the Shed' (a terrace with a corrugated roof in the middle of the side opposite the stand) with Tim, Dave and Joe. Ken Jarrett-Elliott put Fisher in front on 9 minutes and Steve O'Donnell doubled our lead soon after.
During a quiet spell we in the Shed started some random football chat. Joe asked Dave who the anarchist team in Germany were. "St Pauli," Dave replied, and went on about what a grotty part of Hamburg their Millerntor ground is in. He was a VfL Wolfsburg fan and observed "They're essentially the team of the VW company." After a discussion of St Pauli's left-wing and radical leanings, Jude asked "Which team did Adolf Hitler support?"
I knew. "1860 Munich."
"Well, it wouldn't have been Maccabi Tel Aviv!" Tim grinned.
"Why'd he choose 1860 over Bayern?" Dave asked.
"Bayern had Jewish owners."
Tim said he was disappointed with the 75 crowd. I said it wasn't bad for a Monday night, when the opposition were from some way away and there was Man Utd v Tottenham on telly. "There are some sad people around," said Dave. Joe remarked that the crowd at Chi on Saturday had been 45; Tim reckoned the Fish had comprised the majority of that.
Chichester scored but Rich Monan put us 3-1 up just before the break. In the second half Fisher turned the jets on, played scintillating football and added three more without reply to set up a trip to Lingfield in the preliminary round.
So good to be back home again.
Mad dash to East Dulwich station at the final whistle. Made it to Waterloo with a quarter of an hour to spare before the last Portsmouth train. Since Innocent, disgracefully, no longer make my beloved vanilla smoothie, I scoured the food and drink outlets for something similar. M&S do make a 'Vanilla Velvet' smoothie, but, alas, they were sold out. Had to make do with a vanilla Creamy Cooler from Costa.
Home 12.30 am, crashed out.
Happy news in email - my application for a hospitality ticket to the Olympic women's football third place play-off at Coventry has been successful.
Up to the Smoke after work for the Fish's replay with Chichester. The bar was well stocked with real ales from the Brentwood Brewery. I went for an excellent 'Chockwork Orange'.
Stood in 'the Shed' (a terrace with a corrugated roof in the middle of the side opposite the stand) with Tim, Dave and Joe. Ken Jarrett-Elliott put Fisher in front on 9 minutes and Steve O'Donnell doubled our lead soon after.
During a quiet spell we in the Shed started some random football chat. Joe asked Dave who the anarchist team in Germany were. "St Pauli," Dave replied, and went on about what a grotty part of Hamburg their Millerntor ground is in. He was a VfL Wolfsburg fan and observed "They're essentially the team of the VW company." After a discussion of St Pauli's left-wing and radical leanings, Jude asked "Which team did Adolf Hitler support?"
I knew. "1860 Munich."
"Well, it wouldn't have been Maccabi Tel Aviv!" Tim grinned.
"Why'd he choose 1860 over Bayern?" Dave asked.
"Bayern had Jewish owners."
Tim said he was disappointed with the 75 crowd. I said it wasn't bad for a Monday night, when the opposition were from some way away and there was Man Utd v Tottenham on telly. "There are some sad people around," said Dave. Joe remarked that the crowd at Chi on Saturday had been 45; Tim reckoned the Fish had comprised the majority of that.
Chichester scored but Rich Monan put us 3-1 up just before the break. In the second half Fisher turned the jets on, played scintillating football and added three more without reply to set up a trip to Lingfield in the preliminary round.
So good to be back home again.
Mad dash to East Dulwich station at the final whistle. Made it to Waterloo with a quarter of an hour to spare before the last Portsmouth train. Since Innocent, disgracefully, no longer make my beloved vanilla smoothie, I scoured the food and drink outlets for something similar. M&S do make a 'Vanilla Velvet' smoothie, but, alas, they were sold out. Had to make do with a vanilla Creamy Cooler from Costa.
Home 12.30 am, crashed out.
