Two sides

An interesting game today as the home team from last week were the away team.

Pleasantries were exchanged before the game and off the field but after 2 cautions and a dismissal for the away team, the referee was accused of playing up to the assessor (me). Nothing could be farther from the truth. While in last week's game, they had been on the receiving end of a fairly physical appoach by their opponents, this week, they snapped and harried at most early challenges.

The home side reacted in kind and the result was a game littered with poor challenges and appropriate disciplinary action. In the end the team in black won, with 6 cautions and 1 dismissal and for the first time this season it took me until 7:30 to get the heat back into my toes.

Movember Day 19 by the way. If you want to give, go to http://mobro.co/BrianHamilton

Quiet weekend

I made the longish trip (100 miles round trip) through 3 Counties to yesterday's game and got a warm welcome from the home club. It was a new venue for me, although I'd seen the home team away a couple of times. The game was scrappy and the team in black did ok.

This morning I averaged up the mileage by travelling just over a mile to watch a County Trophy game. he home team scored after less than 33 seconds but took 33 minutes to add to their tally. The score was 7-1 by the time I got bored, wet and cold so decided to head off home.

Tonight I put together the next 4 weeks fixtures for my local Sunday League and sent out some correspondence on behalf of the District FA, as I'm collating the results for Round 3 of their competitions this weekend.

Movember is still going well ...

Movember Day 10

Make your way to http://mobro.co/BrianHamilton to make a donation

Movember

After admiring this fund raising effort from afar for a couple of years, I've decided to become involved.

If you feel like donating some cash to help tackle men's health problems, notably testicular and prostate cancer (which contributed to my grandfather's death), then shuffle to the address below and drop some pennies off for my slug balancing act.

http://mobro.co/BrianHamilton

Thanks (Day 3 below)