Tuesday 16th December
Winner gets £27,000
Att 3,296
Off to my sisters for tea in
Cheshire, drop in at a friends for half an hour, then off to Prenton Park. The
weather was deteriorating on the way there and the rain was in full swing by
the time I arrived at the ground.
£5 car parking, £8 entry and £3 for a program. For the second game in succession I was disappointed with the inside of the ground. Tranmere underwent a massive ‘stands’ rebuild in 1997 as a consequence of the Taylor reports’ requirement for ‘all seater’ stadiums. Concrete/Breeze block jungle but much better than Oxford.
Having eaten heartily at my sisters I was not in a position to test the local ‘Fayre’ but that will be remedied against Swansea. Yet again no pepper for my Bovril. What is the matter with these second division teams!!
The game got underway with both teams playing at 90mph. For me Oxford were the slightly better team in the first half but they went in 1-1. Odejayi scrambling in the equaliser for Tranmere after Potter had given the visitors a deserved lead with a glancing header. Oxford began the second half the better and how Joe Riley missed early on I don’t know. As an old manager of mine used to say “Our Deborah could have scored that”. She was his 14 year old daughter. After 76 minutes Max Power drove past Ryan Clarke in the Oxford goal to give what was to be a Tranmere victory. The rain had been relentless all the way through and there were occasions when the ball was getting caught in the lying water. Don’t you dare postpone it Ref!! . I was told by a friend that it is not good form to leave before the end of a game. But, IT IS ‘B…… FREEZING’, so, sorry Chris, I’m OFF!! Caught the last 10 minutes of the Derby v Chelsea game on the radio and heard that the Tranmere game had not been postponed and they had prevailed.
Wednesday morning and got my ticket for the Swansea match. After last night I had accumulated 1,622 miles so far and with another 240 mile round trip on Jan 3rd it will be 1862 miles. Phew. Must remember to take some pepper with me!!
£5 car parking, £8 entry and £3 for a program. For the second game in succession I was disappointed with the inside of the ground. Tranmere underwent a massive ‘stands’ rebuild in 1997 as a consequence of the Taylor reports’ requirement for ‘all seater’ stadiums. Concrete/Breeze block jungle but much better than Oxford.
Having eaten heartily at my sisters I was not in a position to test the local ‘Fayre’ but that will be remedied against Swansea. Yet again no pepper for my Bovril. What is the matter with these second division teams!!
The game got underway with both teams playing at 90mph. For me Oxford were the slightly better team in the first half but they went in 1-1. Odejayi scrambling in the equaliser for Tranmere after Potter had given the visitors a deserved lead with a glancing header. Oxford began the second half the better and how Joe Riley missed early on I don’t know. As an old manager of mine used to say “Our Deborah could have scored that”. She was his 14 year old daughter. After 76 minutes Max Power drove past Ryan Clarke in the Oxford goal to give what was to be a Tranmere victory. The rain had been relentless all the way through and there were occasions when the ball was getting caught in the lying water. Don’t you dare postpone it Ref!! . I was told by a friend that it is not good form to leave before the end of a game. But, IT IS ‘B…… FREEZING’, so, sorry Chris, I’m OFF!! Caught the last 10 minutes of the Derby v Chelsea game on the radio and heard that the Tranmere game had not been postponed and they had prevailed.
Wednesday morning and got my ticket for the Swansea match. After last night I had accumulated 1,622 miles so far and with another 240 mile round trip on Jan 3rd it will be 1862 miles. Phew. Must remember to take some pepper with me!!
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