Well, that was a bit of a damp squib of a "match one", wasn't it?
It was always going to be a bit "meh" for me, to be honest – I erroneously made arrangements to have lunch with some old friends on Saturday (family pals, not footy mates), which I was really looking forward to and enjoyed a lot, but I knew would probably overrun. Before a ball was kicked, I'd settled for maybe seeing some of the second half, and hopefully seeing us do well.
As it transpired, I failed as a so-called "fan" to greater depths than the lads did – I couldn't get any visibility of the match until about ten minutes from the end, when a family member shared a rather dodgy internet link. By the time that got working, I watched Jack Clarke bend it into the bottom corner (as we have seen him do so many times), and that was that.
After only seeing the tail end and watching us lose to an "ex", the whole weekend took a bit of a nosedive in terms of football feelings for me. I still haven't watched the highlights even now (Tuesday morning as I draft this), such has been the underlying indifference around the fixture and my disappointment.
But when I woke up yesterday morning, I thought I'd take a look at what this may mean based on last season's first matches… and while it's a bit of a mixed bag, it's far from the Armageddon some online bed-wetters have already made it out to be.
#match #jack #clarke
It was always going to be a bit "meh" for me, to be honest – I erroneously made arrangements to have lunch with some old friends on Saturday (family pals, not footy mates), which I was really looking forward to and enjoyed a lot, but I knew would probably overrun. Before a ball was kicked, I'd settled for maybe seeing some of the second half, and hopefully seeing us do well.
As it transpired, I failed as a so-called "fan" to greater depths than the lads did – I couldn't get any visibility of the match until about ten minutes from the end, when a family member shared a rather dodgy internet link. By the time that got working, I watched Jack Clarke bend it into the bottom corner (as we have seen him do so many times), and that was that.
After only seeing the tail end and watching us lose to an "ex", the whole weekend took a bit of a nosedive in terms of football feelings for me. I still haven't watched the highlights even now (Tuesday morning as I draft this), such has been the underlying indifference around the fixture and my disappointment.
But when I woke up yesterday morning, I thought I'd take a look at what this may mean based on last season's first matches… and while it's a bit of a mixed bag, it's far from the Armageddon some online bed-wetters have already made it out to be.
#match #jack #clarke
2 months ago
