I remember John Westcott having a storming pre-season 97/98; a shame he turned out to be crap.
I guess it must have been hard for any young player, such was our mediocrity that season.
Ross Johnson & Kevin McGarrigle initially impressed as first teamers in the mid nineties.
Before that Ian...
Official 18:20 today at Hove Prom Park Run today. Good conditions, but I couldn’t get going until the last K and it was too late.
76.73% age grading so not in @Garry Nelson's teacher league, but a reasonable start to 2024.
The VAR process helped us not long after their 2nd goal which came from a short corner.
Spurs forced another corner soon afterwards and were looking to take quickly again, again we reacted slowly to this.
The ref brought it back as VAR were checking the Pervis handball. That break in play was...
Broad was fantastic through the whole series and was our top wicket taker. The last game topped off a very good year for him, he was quite rightly a contender.
Hemed’s 97th minute headed equaliser to share the spoils away at Brentford in a 3-3 classic was great.
Storer, Reinelt, Buckley, Ulloa & Virgo the standout ones in my time.
A late entry to the leaderboard please - 2023 best time of 18:19 at Hove Prom.
Age grading 76.80%
Nice to race one at full effort after just over 2 years of using them for marathon pace only.
Saw plenty of friendly faces including @Simgull on the start line.
You can tell the winger made a complete meal of the contact, by diving/falling so far away from the initial contact.
If the contact was strong enough to trip him, it would have been a more natural fall closer to the incident.
He’s ended up yards away when the contact was so minimal.
The ref...
I’d imagine he was dropped for his positioning on the late Fulham winner the Saturday after. Everyone talks about the Palace mistake, but this was the one that pushed De Zerbi to bring in Steele.
VAR is the worst thing to happen to football since Barry Bennell.
See the penalty award just now in the Napoli vs Real Madrid game.
It’s worsened decisions and taken the joy away from goal celebrations.
I was there, travelling with the A27 club mini bus. Waited outside for Bellotti to appear afterwards. Lots of Rochdale fans supporting us too which was a good end to a shit night.