How's your footy team doing?
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Fantastic game today, some brilliant football from both sides, could have gone either way, right up to the final whistle.
Same again, next Saturday, but at Wembley this time. Expect Denham Club site might be lively 🙂⚽️🙂.
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We might be there later if we can negotiate the play off semis, assuming that we manage to stay in the top six. Thats a lot of assumptions and given the way we played yesterday it’s not a given.
Town we’re second best all over the park again and lucky to get a point after leading twice and being pegged back twice. An absolute contrast to Monday night when they beat a decent Luton side in a match which descended in to a nasty affair after Luton’s top scorer missed a penalty. A weak referee had obviously left his red card at home!
City might struggle to win this one Pliers.
ITT Rog
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Just back at the ‘van, after the FA Cup semi final at Wembley.
Dissapointing result, but after gifting the Dippers 3, 1st half goals, a 3 : 2 result seemed almost respectable….🤔
Photo is the view from our seats, upper tier, good value.
Anyway, good luck to Liverpool in the final. 🙂
Rog, hope you get to the play off final, and when you do, I can certainly recommend Denham Club site to make a short break. It’s about a mile from the site to Denham station, trains 3 times an hour to Wembley Stadium, or into central London.
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Just recovering from the shock of the year 'cos t'Alex did not just crawl away & crystalize as some expected ! Instead they saw fit to ruin Wimbledon's Easter Egg Hunt !!
Seems almost as if the lads were playing for their jobs next season.
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This afternoon’s result is nothing short of remarkable.
Town have never won at the Riverside Stadium, indeed they haven’t won on Teesided since 1987 when Boro were playing at Ayresome Park.
It’s also remarkable because the scorer of the first goal is a devout Muslim who is fasting assiduously from sunrise to sunset for Ramadan. He also got the goal that put the game to bed last Monday against Luton. I saw him interviewed a few weeks back and he made it sound simple because it’s something he’s been doing all his life as a professional footballer. It can’t be that easy to go that long without even taking a drink.
He did let us into a little secret which helps to some extent, he said his team mates were very supportive and that our keeper is on the ball during a game as to when he can break his fast, and knows when to kick the ball out of play so he can get a quick pack of energy gel.
That was a thoroughly professional performance by a proper team.
UTT Rog😀😀😀
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Spot on Brian. There was a perfect example of that in yesterday’s match. Boro hit the bar with one of their rare shots on target, the ball bounced back to a Boro player who lashed a shot towards goal only for our full back to put a block in which knocked him off his feet. Normally you’d see a team mate help him up and pat him on his back “ well done” Our keeper picked him up a gave him the biggest hug you can imagine. I thought that said a lot.
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There was an article in the i newspaper the other week about Muslim Football players and Ramadan. Most interesting. I think in the PL the captains come together and agree a 2 minute break or something similar at the right time so that they can break their fast. Of course you have more nutritionalists employed nowadays as well so that also helps plus it's a bit of a culture learning experience for those non Muslim players and fans.
I don't think you are going to be very popular with Ttda, Pg, what with her being a Boro fan.
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Town do a pre-match programme on HTTV and this week was devoted to Muslim athletes and Ramadan. There are eight Muslim players at Town through all the teams from the first eleven to the academy and the club have teamed up with a not for profit organisation Nujum Sports who have been instrumental in helping the club.
The club provides a halal food choice at every meal and also sends our Muslim players home with meals to eat before and after their fast so that they get all the nutrients they need to help them observe Ramadan more easily.
When the team plays away from home someone, not the players themselves, is tasked with finding a room for players to use for prayer.
Apparently there is a fridge in the changing room at the training ground with food and drink in it, and one the vice captains suggested that it should be covered during the month.
I understand that the match at Turf Moor was paused in the 41st minute last night so that those breaking the fast could get a drink, so other clubs are also on the ball. Incidentally the CEO of Nujum sports said that English football was light years ahead of other countries in this matter😀
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Free flags at the City v Real game tonight.
And what an absolutely fantastic match. Won’t be an easy 2nd leg, though.
Good luck to Liverpool, in their big game, I’m sure they’ll win that one, they are certainly on brilliant form.
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Well done Pliers. If only all matches were that good.
Papgeno, thanks for your reply. Very informative post. Good to see that clubs not necessarily in the eye of the public are ahead of the game in many ways and more community based that some in the PL.
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Town secured a place in the playoffs and sent the Tykes down last Saturday. We’ll have to wait and see who we’re going to play in the semifinals but I think getting to Wemberlee is a big ask.
Lots to play for in Leagues 1&2 today and Town are at Coventry who looked a very good side when we played them at the JSS. Let’s hope they’re already on the beach🫰
UTT Rog
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That would be a result made in heaven Pliers. A post from one of your club employees who is loosely related by marriage was tagged on Facebook on Saturday from Elland Road I nearly replied saying surely you mean Bellend Road 😡
Town’s unlikely win at Coventry means we can’t finish lower than fourth now so we’re assured of a home second leg. However I’m pretty sure that Town have never won a home leg in the playoffs ever and we’ve been in a few.
Having said that this team have laid quite a few ghosts to rest this season so we won’t rule anything out.
UTT Rog
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Now that 'pool have made it to the final will you be joining them, Pliers?
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Think of the amount the Canaries will have made in prize money per promotion and the parachute payments for each relegation £££££££
Talking of money I renewed our three season tickets the other day, spent the thick end of £700.
Even if we don’t get promoted it’ll still be far and away the cheapest tickets in the Championship next season my ticket works out at just £13 per match and those of the SIL and GS were even cheaper 😀
UTT Rog
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That’s really good value, Rog, especially for next season’s Premier League games 🤞.
A pal who watches Town was telling me that Town have promised to hold season ticket prices for three years for those who kept them during lockdown, He’s well pleased .🙂
As for City, we didn’t go to the match, we’ve been to Real 3 times already and have seen all the main sights of Madrid. But watching it on TV last night, we went from “should have gone” to “glad we didn’t bother” in the space of 10 mins. 😱
Another big game on Sunday, not good for the nerves!⚽️🙂⚽️
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That result must have been very painful. It’s one thing to know you’re going lose well before full time but to be turned over in added time is something else entirely.
With regard to season tickets you’re right the club made a price promise to hold prices for three years for anyone who renewed during the pandemic. Even without that our prices are extremely reasonable . I was reading that a non league team like Bradford Park Avenue charge £14 on the gate for home matches, and at a National League team like Notts County it would cost you £20 to get in.
Hopefully we be watching football in the greedy league for peanuts next season although personally I’m not fussed if we don’t get promoted. This season has been excellent so far.
UTT Rog
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Wow! What an afternoon! For the first time in over 50 years I haven't been to watch The Gas all season, one of a group of supporters who pledged not to go while we had a manager who came in with 2 assault charges hanging over him and showing complete disrespect for the staff and players he inherited. (Our ticket money has been going to the supporters club to finance the junior teams and development squad instead.)
But now I have to eat humble pie and admit that Joey Barton, along with all the players he brought in have done the job and on an unbelievable last day of the season we've made it back into League 1. (I suppose it would be churlish to say that we should never have lost our place last year!)
And what a way to do it, turning round a 5 goal deficit to overcome Northampton who were ahead of us on goal difference. And to think that at New Year we were 17th and looking at a possible return to the National League.
So, happy days! And yes, Joey, I admit I was wrong and look forward to many trips back to The Mem next year!
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Fantastic result, Moulesy 🙂
And, as a Man City fan who had to tolerate Joey Barton’s somewhat strange behaviour when he played for us, I never thought for one minute that he could ever manage anything.
Very wrong 😱 Enjoy next season ⚽️🙂⚽️1 -
You have also to thank Barrow for scoring that second half goal, without which it would have been the dreaded playoffs!!😄 Well done to them, a fantastic result.
A decent result for you tonight, Pliers, with Pool dropping 2 points. Another must win for you tomorrow though.
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Yes, Nellie, grateful to the goalscorer and also to the goalie for pulling off that spectacular save from Sam Hoskins' late header. Another goal for Northampton would have done for us.
It was almost history repeating itself - in 2016 Rovers had to win their last game of the season at home to an already relegated club and left Lee Brown's winner till very late in the game. I felt a bit sorry for Accrington Stanley that day, not so much for Northampton who don't really play a very attractive game. Got my fingers crossed for Darryl Clarke and Port Vale in the play offs.
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