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sarahxGlasgow Rangers Supporters 2 Stoke City Supporters 2 (aet)
Rangers won on penalties
29 January 2006
Just like London buses – no bog-blogs for ages, then two arrive at once.
I was running the line in a cup quarter final. They'd not normally havelinos assistant referees in quarter finals, but there was a spot of aggro in the league fixture between the teams earlier in the season involving disputed offside calls. So I got to trundle up and down the touchline, flagging Stoke players offside for half the match (because they were incapable of staying onside), and not flagging much at all in the other half (because the Rangers players had got the hang of that complicated offside stuff much better).
And, being a cup match, a draw is not an acceptable result. It was bloody freezing and I wasn't best pleased when Rangers equalised with 20 seconds of normal time left. Bastards. I didn't care who won – just as long as someone did within 90 minutes! No such luck.
Fullers – yes, the brewery – clearly look after their sports ground much better than the councils do. The pitch was nice and flat, and had plenty of grass. You could even see the lines; sometimes they're more mythical than visible. While there wasn't a ladies' changing room as such, there was a ladies' loo, which was lovely and warm and there was plenty of space – and a chair to jam under the room's door handle in the absence of a lock. The loo itself was a thing of beauty – clean, loo-roll, what more can a girl ask for?
There were even nice clean showers with lovely new curtains – and copious quantities of hot water.
Score: 8.5/10. Pretty jolly good. If only all the parks pitches had facilities like this.
Rangers won on penalties
29 January 2006
Just like London buses – no bog-blogs for ages, then two arrive at once.
I was running the line in a cup quarter final. They'd not normally have
And, being a cup match, a draw is not an acceptable result. It was bloody freezing and I wasn't best pleased when Rangers equalised with 20 seconds of normal time left. Bastards. I didn't care who won – just as long as someone did within 90 minutes! No such luck.
Fullers – yes, the brewery – clearly look after their sports ground much better than the councils do. The pitch was nice and flat, and had plenty of grass. You could even see the lines; sometimes they're more mythical than visible. While there wasn't a ladies' changing room as such, there was a ladies' loo, which was lovely and warm and there was plenty of space – and a chair to jam under the room's door handle in the absence of a lock. The loo itself was a thing of beauty – clean, loo-roll, what more can a girl ask for?
There were even nice clean showers with lovely new curtains – and copious quantities of hot water.
Score: 8.5/10. Pretty jolly good. If only all the parks pitches had facilities like this.
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Date: 2006-02-03 07:00 pm (UTC)