Well what a weekend it’s been sporting wise! (Well apart from Newcastle only getting a point against Hull when 3 was needed) Man Utd getting smashed in their own back yard, then Fergie saying they were the better team 
Not much I can remember from Man Utd apart from a few shots first half, and the penalty! And Oh how nice it was to see the commentator eat his words! When Ronaldo stepped up to take the penalty his words were something like “This penalty will all but end Liverpool’s title challenge” Anyway more about the game later. Something Early Doors over on the Yahoo Sports page agrees with…
Here’s a snippet, the whole article can be found HERE
After months of taunting from the United fans over his no-less-bonkers-this-morning rant about goodness knows what, Benitez decided to rub Old Trafford’s nose in it by removing Gerrard in the 90th minute and bringing on Nabil El-Zhar – a huge piece of tactical showboating the football equivalent to Ronnie O’Sullivan playing left-handed.
However the ultimate indignity was still to come as the universally-scorned Andrea Dossena netted a brilliant lob from the edge of the box – the kind of goal that big kids score in the playground against much younger opponents.
Of course, Alex Ferguson was in no mood to accept that his side had just been schooled by their most bitter rivals, sticking by the insane assertion that: “I thought we were the better team.”
The trail of broken cups and saucers, stray football boots and players’ teeth that lay across the dressing-room floor at Old Trafford suggested that, privately, he was not saying the same thing.
Friday was the first day I got to drive my car to work, and I loved it HAHA! God I’d missed the little motor! Work was tiring but we managed to make it through the day! Me and Smah had a convo about how on Fridays you’re feeling great cos it’s the last day of the working week, the weekend is in sight, but by the time you reach 2pm, your body and mind feeling like doing nothing! Then you realise you’ve still got another 3 1/2 hours left here 
Football was amusing in parts but again some people just seem to take it too serious, and I think I did a bit too much running around this week, cos for the rest of the evening my legs felt like jelly! Just sat around the house watching telly for a bit, trying to avoid Comic Relief so getting deep into NCIS and Numb3rs, which I’d never seen before, but will defo be watching again 
Once again on Saturday morning when I could have had a lie in, I seemingly woke up about 6am, with the sun coming through the curtains! Think it’s time I invest in some new black-out curtains or a blind for my bedroom, as well as a new duvet and some pillows 
Tried to get back to sleep, and gave up trying about half 8 and decided to get up. Watched a bit of Saturday morning telly which was as usual boring as hell, and then headed over to the coffee shop in Rainworth for a coffee and some toast, before I went to get my haircut. My mum was on her way back from town, so thought I’d meet her for a bit. As soon as I walked in I saw “Dippy James” People from around Rainworth and Blidworth will know who it is I speak of. He’s had severe problems with drink and drugs through out the years, and most of the time he ends up doing stupid stuff like climbing on top of the Post Office roof and threatening to jump, or running across the road when it’s busy. My mum said he even walked down the aisle in church one day and told everyone God lives through him! He’s got a good few screws loose!
Anyhow…. I got my coffee and sat down, and then he came and sat next to me He started telling me how he has realised he’s got to cut down on the amount of alcohol he drinks, and needs to find that balance between alcohol and water, then he started praying, all this time I’m trying not to look him in the eye, as he normally just freaks out, and then he said he agrees that he’s fine if he drinks UNDER 5 litres of Cider! I tried my hardest not to laugh, thinking if I ever drink that much I’ll be in casualty having my stomach pumped 
My mum and Sue didnt seem too impressed with the extra person sat at their usual table. Went and had my haircut, Thanks Laura :p , and then went to meet my mum and Sue again, and luckily for them Dippy James left not long after I did, but he didn’t take the stench of stale alcohol or piss away with him *bleugh* Had another coffee and then went upto my mums to wash out all the shaved bit sof hair, which itch the hell out of you if you leave them long enough! Our Stef and his mate Whartley were leaving my mums and asked if they could have a lift into town, so as I was heading that way-ish they waited 5 minutes for me. Dropped them off and then got home to change my top, and await Bagi and Moorey who I was going to watch the match with.
Parked up at the back of The Swan, and bumped into a few people I saw from the gym, and we chilled out and watched the first half of the game. Was a good atmosphere, and it was amusing to see one or two Liverpool fans put their jackets on once the Ronaldo penalty went in, but it came off about 6 minutes later when Torres ran through capitalising on a Vidic error There was a bit of baiting from either sets of fans, specially when Gerrard won the penalty at the end of the first half. Decided to try somewhere else, and we nipped into Yates’ only to realise once we got through the door they don’t have Sky Sports, then we tried Marthas, but everyone in there was stood at the bar, so back to the Swan it was, where we watched the 2nd half out the back of the pub under their parasols. This afternoon drinking is not what I was designed for I think, as once I got home via a trip to Macdonalds, the 4 pint made me quite sleepy, and I remember watching the Italy vs Wales rugby game thinking I’ll have a lie on the sofa, and then next thing I knew The Scotland game was on, then I closed my eyes again and that was almost finished God I’m a lightweight when it comes to this drinking malarky.
Spent the evening chatting away to CarolAnne whilst watching what appeared to be Will Smith night on Channel 4! First off it was I, Robot, and then “Ali” I think Will Smith is awesome in that film, and even tho I was struggling to stay awake, I tried my hadest to stay awake and watch it all the way through (Twating Adverts don’t help when they add about half an hour onto a film Grrrrr)
As you can guess, I was awake quite early on sunday morning, and so I decided to try and doze off till my alarm went off. Then I got up and decided to make my way over to Maddsys via the petrol station. We were playing all the way over in Bilsthorpe, but I wasn’t sure exactly where the pitch was, and as I’d not driven my car for a while, I declined Maddsys offer of jumping in the Warrior with him, so he got in my car instead. Not a lot can be said about the game, thats not in the match report, apart from the fact my legs gave way in the second half, and I’m now suffering from it! I have two tight thighs, and sore calves I’m getting too old for this football lark, and as 6000 said I shall have to modify my game over the coming pre-season (or start to work on my legs a bit to get the fitness back into them) One plus point, was seeing a lad I went to school with, come onto the pitch at right back, and he went flying in on Sammo, so once Gregg went off after a poorish game, and I switched to the left, I thought he can have it my legs were going, and I tried to run up the line with the ball, and over ran it a little, and saw Humber preparing to go flying in on me, so I did the same, but not before smashing the ball straight into his face, busting his nose! I’m not a violent person, but that did bring a smile to my face, as he went in with both feet on both me and Sammo, so he got his just deserts I think :p
Match Report (please note It don’t make good reading! Specially the ratings )
A disappointing performance and we throughly deserved to lose our first league game since October 2008.
The starting eleven was kept the same from our excellent win at Huthwaite two weeks earlier, meaning only a place on the bench for the returning Moorey.
The first 20 minutes was like we were still in the dressing room, we just did’nt show up! Jolly Friar scored a soft goal from an RandK perspective, with Greg losing his posistion leaving a Friar striker the simplist of tap-ins.
This did spark us into life and 5 minutes later we were back on level terms, a great team goal with Nick finding Bud with a great pass before Bud laid it off to Winty to stroke home and end his recent goal drought.
The referee stole the show today and i can only hope we do not ever get this ref in a future match ever!!! he was on first name terms with all of the Friar squad and did not do us or Jolly Friar any favours, his first big mistake came when Jock superbly won the ball, but the ref deemed Jock to have fouled the Friar player. From the resulting free-kick, sloppy defending again cost us with no-one wanting to clear the ball, before it ended up through everyone and into the net.
Half-time 1-2
The goal RandK conceded on the stroke of half-time hurt us, especially under the circumstances the initial free-kick was awarded and we struggled to recover from that.
However RandK were again back on level terms when a good ball by subsitute Moorey found Bud, who rounded the keeper before firing into an empty net. 2-2
Again the ref was getting himself noticed a little too much with some more terrible decisions which did not help the game with his stop-start approach to the game.
With 15 minutes left Friar got what would prove to be the deciding goal, an initial clearance from the defence only went as far as an onrushing Friar midfielder who smashed home.
Upex replaced Winty in a bid to try something different and very nearly scoring late on but he saw his header tipped onto the bar, and guess what the ref missed it and awarded a goal-kick!!!
It seems today i have moaned alot about the quality of the ref, he was an absolute idiot but we still did not do enough to win this game, we were very poor today and every player should be looking over their shoulders now before the derby clash with Devonshire Arms next week, in which i gaurantee changes will be made.
MOM – Nick, chosen by Col, a steady battling performance today and showed good ball winning skills.
Goal summary:
22 min – Chris Wint (8/10)
A first-class team goal, finished off by Chris Wint with a right footed conversion from 18 yards out, following a Richard Waring pass.67 min – Richard Waring (7/10)
Richard Waring fired home from close range with a speculative left foot goal, following a through-ball from Ian Moore.LINK for the ratings if anyone out there is ever interested
Called into the pub after football for a Coke, and then headed home to watch the CIS Scottish Cup Final. The lads thought I was brave to wear my Celtic shirt to football, with Jock being a Rangers fan, but I don’t care! Thats one of the reasons I think we get on so well as a bunch of lads, the humour and banter makes it enjoyable, altho I dont think Jock will be, in the coming weeks, after the result yesterday! Sunday evening I chilled out chatting to one or two folks before having chinese and a protein shake! Problem being that for the next hour I had massive hiccups, that I just couldn’t get rid of!! I was a little dissapointed last night watching Talladega Nights on Channel 5. They’d seemingly cut a good few bits out of the film so it could be shown before the 9pm watershed I still watched it anyway, as it’s up there as one of my fave films
