Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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We're into the final countdown to the big kick off. Just 23 hours to go. Two questions buzzed around my brain on the train journey home as I contemplated the up coming world changing enormo fixture.
1) On a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1 being not at all excited, you've given up all hope and see tomorrow as the beginning of the end...defeat is inevitable as is defeat in the play offs leading to a mass exodus of players and Hughton followed by relegation next season. 10 being so excited you might just spontaneously combust or at the very least explode some vital internal organ).
2) What are you going to do to help those 23 remaining hours pass without combusting or topping yourself?
Me, I'm currently hovering around the 8 on the excite-o-meter. My co-worker thought I'd be nervous as hell about the game so I tried telling him that winning tomorrow will be the icing on the cake. The cake, and what a scrumptiously delicious cake it is, has been the season up to this point. Watching a side that battled relegation last year turn into a resolute, determined skillful team that played great football and has flown high all season. Going into games excited about our chances rather than hoping we might nick something. Going into work after a game happy at the result of the night before. The general feeling of contentment supporting a side who don't know when they're beaten and hence very rarely lose. Watching a side I thought might struggle this year equal the post war unbeaten start to a season record for the division. A win tomorrow will just top all that off nicely but if we dont win and don't make it through the play offs I've still loved the season.
As for how I'm going to make the next 23 hours fly by....easy! I've just got home from work, I'm going to make dinner, watch some tv then go to bed. I'm working from 9:30 - 6:30 tomorrow, I'll get home about 7:30 an hour before kick off. Enough time to soak up the pre match build up before at 8:30 settling in for what will hopefully be our biggest result for 19 years.
COME ON THE ALLLBBBIIIIOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!
1) On a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1 being not at all excited, you've given up all hope and see tomorrow as the beginning of the end...defeat is inevitable as is defeat in the play offs leading to a mass exodus of players and Hughton followed by relegation next season. 10 being so excited you might just spontaneously combust or at the very least explode some vital internal organ).
2) What are you going to do to help those 23 remaining hours pass without combusting or topping yourself?
Me, I'm currently hovering around the 8 on the excite-o-meter. My co-worker thought I'd be nervous as hell about the game so I tried telling him that winning tomorrow will be the icing on the cake. The cake, and what a scrumptiously delicious cake it is, has been the season up to this point. Watching a side that battled relegation last year turn into a resolute, determined skillful team that played great football and has flown high all season. Going into games excited about our chances rather than hoping we might nick something. Going into work after a game happy at the result of the night before. The general feeling of contentment supporting a side who don't know when they're beaten and hence very rarely lose. Watching a side I thought might struggle this year equal the post war unbeaten start to a season record for the division. A win tomorrow will just top all that off nicely but if we dont win and don't make it through the play offs I've still loved the season.
As for how I'm going to make the next 23 hours fly by....easy! I've just got home from work, I'm going to make dinner, watch some tv then go to bed. I'm working from 9:30 - 6:30 tomorrow, I'll get home about 7:30 an hour before kick off. Enough time to soak up the pre match build up before at 8:30 settling in for what will hopefully be our biggest result for 19 years.
COME ON THE ALLLBBBIIIIOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!
