Against Plymouth last week he hoofed a clearance miles up in the air and upfield and set off after it like a man possessed
It broke to him on the corner of the box and he fell over getting a shot away
Never a dull moment
All I know about basketball is that, apparent, legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pretended to be co-pilot Roger Murdock in the greatest film ever made - Airplane!
The keeper immediately started pointing and complaining but that’s what keepers do after every goal
Gregory did look a little sheepish and didn’t go crazy celebrating like all the other players - maybe he was worried that he was offside and/or interfering
and the rule about a player going off at the nearest point on the touchline when being subsituted
everyone now just wanders over to the dugouts from wherever they are on the pitch
Parked up outside Tadcaster Albion for the Sheffield FC game
The first game I’ve ever been to where I’ve known the manager of one team and the chairman of the other
Come on Albion - looking for their first win of the season
Maybe the famous Frank Zappa quote can be adapted for football journalists
“Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read”
In the pub before the game on Saturday someone said Stirling Albion are 40/1 at home to Dundee United - after a discussion of how “nobody can be 40/1 in a football match at home” someone said that Stirling were actually away - another discussion “that’s more likely but no team can be 40/1 away in Scottish football” then someone found out it was actually the University of Stirling they were playing - even then nobody could believe they could possibly be 40/1 - nobody backed them though
Dundee United won 3-0
oh yes and the 1978 FA Cup game
one of the most amazing facts ever is that we played 9 games in the F A Cup proper that season and didn't make it to the 4th Round