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A bit of background to this ...mona said:Sadly part of this ridiculous report was printed in yesterday's Observer by a certain Joe Colclough.
For Championship matches, the Observer always get a report from a home fan. On Saturday, they were obviously having some difficulty in contacting their regular contact.
Roz (who does the Observer reports for Albion home games) had a phone call from a desperate Sports Desk saying that they couldn't get in touch with anyone from Crewe and could she supply the report.
As it happens, we'd gone out to Hastings on Saturday evening and Roz had left her mobile at home, so she didn't get the message until she got back at about midnight.
The fact that she hadn't been at Gresty Road would have meant that a match report from her wouldn't have been forthcoming.
But maybe not, eh? I'm sure that the Sunday papers are full of reports from people who've been nowhere near the game.
They obviously managed to make contact with the guy from Rivals eventually, but, knowing how these reports are thrown together, I guess Joe Colclough might not have been fully prepared with the 80-odd words that he spluttered down the phone line.
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