At minus 5 in the night, car snowed in at the office car-park, and the trains from Guildford to Reading cancelled, I was about to miss my first game of the season. Luckily I posted a facebook rant and a friendly fan picked me up all the way from Grove. By 12 when Ian arrived the snow was nearly all gone, and my car had barely an inch of snow - I felt a bit stupid then.
Pre-match I think I have worked out where our team is letting us down. I was asked how we won at Chesterfield, tactics, formation and so on. All I could come up with was "we passed the ball". No players had stood out.
We had a week of fans blaming the club for not having pitch covers in time, and even an appearance on Newsnight as Jim White reported from the Kasstad about England's failure to get the 2018 World Cup.
As for the game, we were one down at half-time, but came back to win 2-1 mostly thanks to the physical James Constable. Ryan Clarke saved us with an amazing one handed save which was as near to giving away a penalty as it gets.
What's more, I won the OM left side rows W and Z predict the attendance (£7!) and also a prize in the Youth team lottery - a visit to the training ground to meet the players and manager, and lunch too!
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