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40 Miles Of Bad Road
Sep. 27th, 2020 10:15 pmYesterday was Fisher's first venture of the season into rural Kent, at Corinthian. I remembered it was a long walk from Longfield Station, but was unprepared for most of the walk being along single-width country road with no pavement. That route was designed for motorists not pedestrians. And for an out-of-the-way rural road, it wasn't half busy. As Ian, who did the same walk, put it at the game, it was constantly "Hear a car coming, get in the hedge".
A pint of London Pride on eventually reaching the clubhouse was certainly welcome. George, Pete and Ben arrived and sat at a table close to mine: I joined their conversation to a degree while remaining distanced.
Corinthian, early pace-setters in the league, had too much in the tank for Fisher and we lost 4-2. Back to the station for the marathon journey home. At Clapham Junction a station worker in a pink hi-vis, seeing my Fisher FC jacket, said "You're a football fan" and attempted to engage me in conversation about Chelsea v WBA. On realising that that game had no interest for me, he switched to non-league and we talked about assorted non-league and foreign grounds we'd visited until my train came.
Had decided to pop up to Horley today to see Crawley Wasps play MK Dons Women, mostly because Jane was coming. I hadn't banked on railway engineering works. Travelling 78 miles today required a journey involving 3 trains and a replacement bus, taking 3 hours.
Of course it was worth it to see Jane. She and Matt arrived a few minutes into the game, as they'd come from a game Matt was reffing that had only just finished. They stood a few feet away from me and we talked much of the time. Jane said "We haven't seen each other for ages", I recalled we'd last met in Nice at the World Cup 15 months ago. They reckoned it felt like longer. On and off through the afternoon Jane gave us updates from the WFA Cup and Championship games being played.
Crawley had six former Lewes players in their ranks so Jane was especially interested in them, and she got to speak to Rachel Palmer at half-time. The teams seemed fairly evenly matched and there were a few niggly physical moments. With 76 minutes gone Mollie Coupar broke the deadlock for MK and then Chloe Sansom in the MK goal made some super saves to hold on for the win. Jane talked to a Crawley fan about when their next home game was, and was told 11th October v Watford. Jane (like me) is friends with a Watford player's mother and said the latter had promised to make her a cake for that game. We said our goodbyes and I began my weary homeward journey.
A pint of London Pride on eventually reaching the clubhouse was certainly welcome. George, Pete and Ben arrived and sat at a table close to mine: I joined their conversation to a degree while remaining distanced.
Corinthian, early pace-setters in the league, had too much in the tank for Fisher and we lost 4-2. Back to the station for the marathon journey home. At Clapham Junction a station worker in a pink hi-vis, seeing my Fisher FC jacket, said "You're a football fan" and attempted to engage me in conversation about Chelsea v WBA. On realising that that game had no interest for me, he switched to non-league and we talked about assorted non-league and foreign grounds we'd visited until my train came.
Had decided to pop up to Horley today to see Crawley Wasps play MK Dons Women, mostly because Jane was coming. I hadn't banked on railway engineering works. Travelling 78 miles today required a journey involving 3 trains and a replacement bus, taking 3 hours.
Of course it was worth it to see Jane. She and Matt arrived a few minutes into the game, as they'd come from a game Matt was reffing that had only just finished. They stood a few feet away from me and we talked much of the time. Jane said "We haven't seen each other for ages", I recalled we'd last met in Nice at the World Cup 15 months ago. They reckoned it felt like longer. On and off through the afternoon Jane gave us updates from the WFA Cup and Championship games being played.
Crawley had six former Lewes players in their ranks so Jane was especially interested in them, and she got to speak to Rachel Palmer at half-time. The teams seemed fairly evenly matched and there were a few niggly physical moments. With 76 minutes gone Mollie Coupar broke the deadlock for MK and then Chloe Sansom in the MK goal made some super saves to hold on for the win. Jane talked to a Crawley fan about when their next home game was, and was told 11th October v Watford. Jane (like me) is friends with a Watford player's mother and said the latter had promised to make her a cake for that game. We said our goodbyes and I began my weary homeward journey.
