So, we have turned into a team of cloggers then? Two sent off in half an hour, is this good for the revered name of Ryhope I ask? Mind if the same rules had been applied when I was a lad, there isn't a side in Ryhope would ever have got to half time with a team on the pitch. Came up against some right assassins playing for the Railway or the Top Club over the years, me being the more refined sort from over the water, tha knars. There was usually a fight before kick off over choice of changing rooms, both teams naturally wanting the one with only an inch of mud on the floor, never mind what happened on the pitch, and the average ref was not bothered about writing names down, as long as he got his beer money afterwards. I am talking Sunday morning here of course, not the sophisticated gentlemen of the Northern League you understand. Can't remember us having two sent off inside half an hour though...
Still, made for an exciting game, backs to the wall, fighting a tight corner and all that, and nearly a famous victory. And a bloody good crowd in by the looks of it, and most of them parked on Mrs Jones drive I hear, do they know that Lee the community copper, the knight of Beechbrooke, is on stand by to dish out the tickets if they are not careful, and keen to do his duty? Don't come crying to me when he catches you. But the action on the pitch should bring a few back for more. Although I understand the beer ran out, who is getting the blame for that, I wonder?
And now a Friday night FA Cup tie to look forward to, can we stand the excitement of that? And given the abysmal record of the club in the Cup, can we expect any progression? Surely so, canny lads from Birtley and all, but we must be favourites? We shall see, we shall see.
More to the point, hows the new telly? Is it still there? Why isn't it bigger? Why isn't it fastened down? These are the questions we want answered, and before Coronation Street...