How's your footy team doing?

Win yesterday but still bottom of the table🥳

Having a gentle mid-afternoon snooze yesterday when BANG BANG BANG, !! Brian was most rudely and crudely awakened --  !!

A Squad of Alex fans passing the residence decided they wanted to share there and then the pleasures they had had at Gresty Road today**. Even tho' it was only a single goal win the fans all agreed it was well worth the 1/6d entrance fee even tho' the programme was dear at 4d for only eight pages

** For today please read Saturday  { Well I was asleep - very confusing being woken like that !!     }

Programmes at those prices that takes me back. Our excellent programme is now £3.50. 

They are running stories from days gone by  and it makes me feel ancient when I can remember being at those matches. Saturday's programme had a match in 1961 when Town beat the then cup holders Wolves in a mid-week replay. It was the first floodlit match at Leeds Road. 46,000 plus people cheered as each set of lights were switched on.

A few years later two of the pylons blew over in a storm. One landed on the pitch and the other in the opposite corner fell onto the terrace where I used to stand. So it was back to 2-00 pm kick offs that winter. The original lights were paid for with some of the money Town got from selling Dennis Law to Man City. The fee £55,000, if only you could get a player of his quality for that kind of brass today

UTT Rog

Naughty Crewe Alexandra --  chose to have pity on poor old Macclesfield but let them think of getting the three points until the 5th minute of 'over-time' when b-boom 1 -- 1. .

Burnley beat Man Utd 2 - 0.  Blimey.

Blimey indeed Jill  !!

Man U are going thro' a bad patch at present but I believe that the local hardware stores are facing a run on whetstones with Fans, reporters etc getting their tongues sharpened to the Nth degree

Now if they'd been around 60 - 70  years ago the kids would have been sitting on the roadside, with feet in the gutter working away with the blades on the sandstone kerbstones  not of course that Brian would know of such practices he's much too young and angelic

You can go off people you know .😢😢.

I have sort of hidden this here, quite funny. Twenty five years since Eric did to one obnoxious fan what he didn’t expect. Great footballer, a legend on and off the pitch. Sorting out a few other issues nowadays.....😂 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OsF-tmGpQ

 After over sixty five { 65 !! } years of being a Crewe Alex fan you cannot hurt my feelings --  I'm armour plated through and through as well as being totally impervious to the ramblings of that pilchard waster !!

( But I did play it  a time or three    and giggled a fair bit too   )

We're off to see history made tomorrow afternoon. Town's women's team are playing their first ever match at the John Smiths Stadium.

They play the Tractor Girls from Ipswich in the ladies FA cup. It could be a good match, Town ladies come into the game on the back of a 12-0 thrashing of Doncaster Belles while Ipswich who are top of the division below suffered their first defeat of the season to 10 man AFC Wimbledon . 

I'm not sure if you can say ten man in this context🤔

Anyhoo COME ON YOU LADIES Rog⚽️