Let's turn our attention to the Sunday boys for a change. Sunday morning football eh? Brings it all back, and also back up more than a few times as I recall. But this weekend will be different, the FA Carlsberg Sunday Cup no less, a chance to get on the back pages, Anfield in the distance, games against teams from across the country, and, more important than all of that, an afternoon 2.00 kick off to accommodate the travel of Lobster, our opponents from the fair city of Liverpool, which means there is at least half a chance that most of the team will be sober for once.
The 2.00 kick off that is, not the fact that Lobster come from Liverpool. Blimey it was bad enough in my day when the nightclubs chucked out at 2.00 in the morning and most of the lads were in bed by 3.00; or if not, then definitely on their way home, I thank yew, I thank yew! So by 10.00 you had a chance of having nearly enough bodies to look respectable on the pitch. But nowadays they fall out of the clubs at 4.00 or later, and it looks like most of them make their way straight to the ground for the kick off; it's only the drink that is keeping them upright.
I only jest of course, our boys are as good as gold, practically teetotalers, kind to their mothers and dumb animals, and treating all young women as ladies; and of course the sporting gentlemen from Liverpool will be cut from the same cloth...
Still should be a fun afternoon, but how about the rest of the RCA world? Everything looking good for the first team, so far, so far, Ozo "Mourinho" Haley and his faithful assistant Joe seem to know what they are doing with the under 18s, or at least Joe does, the pitch looks good and the semi permanent groundstaff are well on top of things around the ground, what could possibly go wrong now? Well maybe just a few things. The league committee were up here the other day, and finding lots of faults with the clubhouse, work to be done by the end of March I hear or dire consequences will follow, and the council are doing their usual and promising to get back to us some time soon. Plus the large lad started talking politics with the committee and that didn't help, nor did not offering them a cup of tea. So where are we going when the lease runs out, back to the Wearside? Probably not...