With Big Gay Kev saving his pennies for Tuesday (and defending his flat against poltergeists) and Big Straight Craig taking G2, Tom Jones and a giant smurf to Barcelona, I was only member of the London division of the Urban Cookie Collective to head to the Ricoh. A quick pre-match interception at the casino confirmed that Paul, Dale, Matt and Hootie all still exist.
"Hillary" Clinton Morrison should have scored after 30 seconds but chose to aim for Maik Taylor's ankles (and what kind of name is Maik?). The ball flew off for a corner and the Blues breathed a sigh of relief at not conceding a ridiculously early goal. Oh dear...
Danny "Sam" Fox whipped the corner in for Scott Dann"i Minogue" to wave a foot at the ball which obligingly went straight into the goal without much in the way of a reaction from the Blues defence. So only 89 minutes to hang on... But rather than sit back we proceeded to pummel Birmingham for the rest of the game - David "Tinker" Bell should have put us two nil up at half time, Leon "Angie" Best should have put us two nil up oh and so should Jordan "Mrs Andre" Henderson.
Vivienne had one decent save to make - he needed to quickly readjust himself mid-air in a way that made you wish he and not Handy Andy had been in goal at Blackburn.
The Blues fans got their knickers in a twist when a Sir Clive Sinclair goal was not given following an earlier offside- the ref had not noticed the flag had been up some time and thought it might have been a mis-call by the Assistant Referee following a touch by Ben "Tina" Turner. After a horrible few moments which gave me flashbacks to Cardiff away, the Ref raised his arm to indicate an indirect free kick and several hundred ignorant Brummies started cheering thinking a goal had been given. We then had the statutory five minutes injury time (with no streaker as an excuse this week). This time though we hung on. It would be nice to have a two goal lead at the end of regulation time, just once.
All in all a very strong team performance with Cookie almost able to start with the full strength team. The only worry was that Leon "Julia" McKenzie appeared to lose a battle with gravity and drop on his ankle so we await to hear how he mends. In any event we should extend Katie Price's loan, if only to ensure the YDO's attendance in future.
And as an added bonus at the end Gunner threw his boots into the CT crowd - he had a good game but didn't score - who knows what he will throw at us when he scores a hat-trick to get us to the Quarter Final on Tuesday. Something for us all to dwell on in detail in advance of Tuedsay night.
Facebook devotees may have missed the GEFCO match sponsors' photos of their day out which included some gems from the dressing room (and many apologies for unintentional copyright infringement) :
"Hillary" Clinton Morrison should have scored after 30 seconds but chose to aim for Maik Taylor's ankles (and what kind of name is Maik?). The ball flew off for a corner and the Blues breathed a sigh of relief at not conceding a ridiculously early goal. Oh dear...
Danny "Sam" Fox whipped the corner in for Scott Dann"i Minogue" to wave a foot at the ball which obligingly went straight into the goal without much in the way of a reaction from the Blues defence. So only 89 minutes to hang on... But rather than sit back we proceeded to pummel Birmingham for the rest of the game - David "Tinker" Bell should have put us two nil up at half time, Leon "Angie" Best should have put us two nil up oh and so should Jordan "Mrs Andre" Henderson.
Vivienne had one decent save to make - he needed to quickly readjust himself mid-air in a way that made you wish he and not Handy Andy had been in goal at Blackburn.
The Blues fans got their knickers in a twist when a Sir Clive Sinclair goal was not given following an earlier offside- the ref had not noticed the flag had been up some time and thought it might have been a mis-call by the Assistant Referee following a touch by Ben "Tina" Turner. After a horrible few moments which gave me flashbacks to Cardiff away, the Ref raised his arm to indicate an indirect free kick and several hundred ignorant Brummies started cheering thinking a goal had been given. We then had the statutory five minutes injury time (with no streaker as an excuse this week). This time though we hung on. It would be nice to have a two goal lead at the end of regulation time, just once.
All in all a very strong team performance with Cookie almost able to start with the full strength team. The only worry was that Leon "Julia" McKenzie appeared to lose a battle with gravity and drop on his ankle so we await to hear how he mends. In any event we should extend Katie Price's loan, if only to ensure the YDO's attendance in future.
And as an added bonus at the end Gunner threw his boots into the CT crowd - he had a good game but didn't score - who knows what he will throw at us when he scores a hat-trick to get us to the Quarter Final on Tuesday. Something for us all to dwell on in detail in advance of Tuedsay night.
Facebook devotees may have missed the GEFCO match sponsors' photos of their day out which included some gems from the dressing room (and many apologies for unintentional copyright infringement) :
A further picture fuzzily described the Brum players - I have transcribed the more amusing comments that I could read:
Sebastian Larsson - "Poor defender - doesn't know the position. Leaves big gaps in behind" Ouch... Not going to be signing for the City any time soon.
Marcus Bent "Handful, if he turns up" Miaaaaow...
Lee Bowyer "Red Mist!" I don't know what they can possibly be referring to.
It's almost worth sponsoring a match to get a preview of the Manager's sarky analysis of the opposition - Craig get your cheque book out.
Those of us not priviliged to get the pre-match tour formed a meagre 22k crowd, our biggest of the season- will we get near that on Tuesday given that Rovers are bringing their away fans down in Royston Vasey 's very own Babs Cabs?
Sebastian Larsson - "Poor defender - doesn't know the position. Leaves big gaps in behind" Ouch... Not going to be signing for the City any time soon.
Marcus Bent "Handful, if he turns up" Miaaaaow...
Lee Bowyer "Red Mist!" I don't know what they can possibly be referring to.
It's almost worth sponsoring a match to get a preview of the Manager's sarky analysis of the opposition - Craig get your cheque book out.
Those of us not priviliged to get the pre-match tour formed a meagre 22k crowd, our biggest of the season- will we get near that on Tuesday given that Rovers are bringing their away fans down in Royston Vasey 's very own Babs Cabs?
And finally, having feminised the team in the manner of a camp World War II concert party I still have one player left to make over - Gunner himself - as Lah Di Dah Gunnar didn't catch on perhaps Melvyn Hayes' career defining role from It Ain't Half Hot Mum will ... Gunner "Gloria" Gunnarson.
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