To Hull and back!!!!!!!!!!

That's where I shall be going tomorrow to watch the latest episode in Watfords topsy turvey season.

Regardless of what happens in the last weeks of the season it is certainly going to turn into a nail biting finale to the Championship season.

In the words of the boss.................. COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Laminate flooring...................

Some words of wisdom for you.

If you want to end up with sore knees and hamstrings which scream at you everytime you move a muscle, then I highly recommend that you lay laminate flooring in one of your rooms!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday is the first and last time I shall ever do so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kettering Town 3 Nuneaton Borough 2

On a horrid Saturday where as above the game was played in a blizzard, these two teams served up a local derby of excellent proportion. Craig Westcarr, Chris Beardsley and Jon Brady scored the goals which saw The Poppies go 7 points clear at the top of Conference North with two games in hand.

Things improved even more when John Dempsters goal at Boston on Monday afternoon coupled with losses by AFC Telford and Stalybridge Celtic put Kettering within touching distance of Conference National by going 10 points clear with two games in hand.

Kettering Town 3 Worcester City 0

An entertaining and dominant performance from The Poppies.

After a sluggish start they took the lead through a Jon Brady free kick that took a wicked deflection on it's way in - so much so that if it would have been me I would have been embarrassed to claim it as mine!!!!!!!!

Kettering had to wait till the final 15 minutes to take complete control when Craig Westcarr finished twice from inside the box the first of them following a fine run and cross from John Paul Marna.

All in all £15 for me and Little Miss Corby well spent!

No Watford today!!!!

We should have been playing Barnsley this weekend but they are slugging it out in the FA cup against Chelsea this weekend!



I therefore have to look to my footballing "bit on the side", Kettering Town, for my afternoons entertainment today. They are at home to Worcester City at 3pm.

I'll update later.........................

You don't know Jack Schitt........ Do you?

For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?

We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!' Well, thanks to my friend’s generous genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.

Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack. In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt..

Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.

Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials.

The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse. Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you can correct them. Sincerely, Crock O. Schitt

Shipwrecked!

Anyone remember the news story several weeks ago now where during storms in the North Sea a container ship travelling from Ireland to Heysham in Cumbria got hit by a freak wave and ended up being washed aground near Blackpool? Well this is how it looked from Anchorsholme Beach this morning.

The ship was listed at about 40 degrees when the incident happened but has subsequently been battered onto it's side. Currently there is an exclusion zone around the boat and 8 people were arrested last week for trying to board the vessel, which still has much of the cargo it was carrying on board.

It is unlikely that they will be able to re-float the ship now and it would appear that salvage of the ship will take the form of cutting it up where it rests. An exact decision will be made on it's future next week.

It has actually become quite a tourist attraction with cars parked all over the place in Little Bispham and Anchorsholme which is where you get the best view of it from.

The man in the red coat is........................

.................................Watford Manager Aidrian Boothroyd!

How many other managers would mingle with the fans in the stand before a game?

Burnley 2 Watford 2

Turf Moor, the home of Burnley and the scene of probably the best game of football I've seen this season so far, great end to end stuff with some great goals and it threatened to get a bit nasty as well!





As it is the start of National Pie week this week I thought it prudent to try a pre-match pie at Turf Moor, after all I was in the heart of Pie eating territory. I was amused that the title of the pie I chose was Chunky Potato with meat - and for exactly the reason that there was loads of potato in it but scant evidence of any meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The away end at Burnley keeps a dying tradition going of older grounds, which is perfectly captured in the picture above - that of the "obstructed view"!