Colchester
have a new ground which couldn’t be worse than the shit pit they
used to play in or could it – It’s in the middle of nowhere and it
looks like its made of meccano and breeze blocks. Their ground
staff must have been on a week off too as the pitch looked like
something a chinaman would grow rice in. We all questioned how the
hell the game was being played as it looked dangerous. (Col Who
groundstaff did fuck all to it at half time either which I assume
was a ploy to get the game abandoned).Colchester (or maybe just
Cowling) were out to milk their early season victory for all it
was worth and played a video of the game on their big screen as
our players were warming up – big mistake as it only served to
fire them up. We also have now as our manager their ex manager but
they weren’t bitter – well they didn’t have a photo of him in the
programme but had a photo of Gunn instead, but that must have been
pure co-incidence. Lambert palyed his part throughout – the panto
villain - booed constantly by the home fan he hammed it up so well
constantly acknowledging the City fans especially in the second
half with the subtle 4 and 5 finger gestures in reply to "Lambert
whats the score" Out thought their manager in every department.
Now being the bitter and twisted little man that he is Cowling
only let us have 1900 tickets - This out of a capacity of 10,000
which they had failed to ever reach – and since have only managed
about 3,500 a game (who were the fans there to see that day
Cowling????) – so a lot of our supporters had to buy tickets in
the home end. Ginge was a perfect example of this – who even
bluffed it when they rang him to ask if he was a Colchester fan.
So for the start of the game Ginge sat in the West Stand. At 2-0
(I believe) he couldn’t contain his joy anymore and was thrown out
for celebrating. He made his way to the next stand and got in
there. At 3-0 he was thrown out of there and made his way to the
next stand, where at 4-0 he was thrown out of there and had to
finally make his way in with the City fans in time for 5-0. He
wasn’t the only one but the official line was only 12 Norwich fans
were thrown out of the home end. This wasn’t an easy game though
but every player played his part - I can't think of a single
player who had less than a good game in terrible conditions.
The afternoon’s entertainment was livened by the Col Who fan
(who in all honesty was probably a scummer) who was nicked for
going on the pitch - what a twat. He jumped the "barrier" ran on
the pitch offering us out and ended up face down in as freezing
puddle with 2 copppers on him. His mates soon shut up and fucked
off as he was being led away. Fuck knows why the stewards threw a
city fan out of the away end then - it must have been to even the
odds.
Ian Henderson then showed his class on his Colchester debut by
doing fuck all until he lunges into Russell earning a straight
red.
Hoolahan even had the leeway to miss a penalty before we finally
ran out 5-0 winners. All thoughts of August were long gone.
We made our way back on the long walk to the station and
boarded the train back to Norwich. A few more drinks and then it
was home to watch the football league show with a smile on my
face.
Great day out!
Keith
