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Re: vs Lincoln
As I couldn't get to Lincoln, I had decided to watch the scores coming up in some pub in Manchester as usual. But then I read the blurb on t'fishy site "...if you can't make it to Lincoln on Saturday afternoon, why not come and join us in the Crown, with instant goal flashes from the match to the bar staff...". Mental images of a pub packed with eager Reds fans listening with keen attention while the bar staff breathlessly relayed events from Sincil Bank as they happened sprang into my mind and I decided on impulse to jump on an X41 and make my way up there.
...as I walked into the pub at 2.55 I noticed that there were precisely three other people in the place and they didn't look like Stanley fans. Never mind, maybe it would fill up with latecomers soon. Half an hour later the other three customers left and I had the place to myself. The barmaid, an extremely pleasant young lady, didn't look like she was receiving goal flashes from anywhere but fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) I could follow the scores on the TV screens behind the bar. When I pointed out to her that we were 1-0 down her comment was "Who's that, then?..Liverpool?" (Possibly she thought that the "Stanley Til I Die" legend on my T-shirt referred to Stanley Park). Obviously, no chance of any goal flashes there, then. Things looked up in the second half when another real, live Stanley fan arrived to prop the bar up with me and we commiserated with each other in the deepening gloom. All in all though, a disappointing day in more ways than one. The only bright spell in the afternoon's events was noticing the netting up on the framework while I was waiting for the bus home.
So, my question to local Stanley fans is...you've got your own pub...why don't you use it?
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