Raised…
If there were any to raise…
Up The Town. Full House. Floodlights – kind of…
Farnham Town 2, Berkhamsted 1. The Away Fans in the fabulously named Pepperami Stand. Noisier than the home fans. Tension tightens the vocal cords…
Diving into a betting shop to catch Gaelic Warrior doing Gaelic Warrior stuff. He’s in a good place…
An average pre match dinner in excellent company. Fun and funny. And then striding through the sun kissed teeming streets of Farnham to The Memorial Ground. Well, “teeming” might be slightly overstating it – but certainly more than that one man and his dog…
Mark Tracey, myself, Harry Baker and Sophie in amongst the Farnham ultras. Well, not quite “ultra” – very polite and genteel and quiet. Mark’s stentorian cries of “Come on Farnham” ringing off the terraces…
A couple of penalties that would have had VAR bouncing all over the place, a goal just before half time that we missed as we were securing positions in the beer queue, a tense final 15, the right result…
Gloucester on Monday. The promotion decider. I will be at Kempton or Bath. Hey Ho – and Sport Bloody Hell…
Runners today…
ATLANTIS BLUE (Charlie Bishop) and IMPERIAL CULT (Neil Callan) on seasonal debuts. Cobwebs and blowing and “long season ahead” and all of that…
AB to Kempton, Imperial Cult to Lingfield. The AW glamour double header…
I will be at Kempton from London. On the slowest train known to man. Stopping at about 47 commuter outposts out of Waterloo before eventually pulling up at the racecourse…
Declaration day for The Guineas. Last man standing in the 2000 Guineas. So many have dropped by the wayside. Emphasising, yet again, how hard it is to keep racehorses sound and happy. And you only hear about the good ones….
