13-06-2017, 13:08
First chance I've had to post since I got back.
First and foremost...well done Scotland fans. Fantastic atmosphere in the ground, plenty of friendly banter flying backwards and forwards between the two sets of fans and hardly a spot of bother. Great to see the mutual applause for each others support as the Scotland fans left the ground to our right, never seen that anywhere before.
The game- dreadful and quite possibly the worst 2-2 draw I've ever witnessed and I've witnessed a few shocking Town games in the past 30years or so.
Scotland came flying out of the traps,got stuck in and tried to disrupt us, which they probably did for the first 15mins. After that England grew into the game, Harry Kane blasting one into orbit and then not getting any sort of decent connection on another gobber.
Referee- stamped his authority all over the game when he booked Brown early doors for smashing Ali, he knew what he was doing and yellow was right. The ref then went on to miss several handballs and fouls from both teams and seemed to lose the plot.
Half time- karaoke at Hampden Park, it's a first for me and it certainly roused the Scotland fans...much better than singing about Jimmy Saville. By the time the players came back out the crowd had whipped themselves into a frenzy...superb support!
Second half,Southgate takes off the ineffective Rashford to be replaced by the Ox, and bingo...we go one nil up. We calm the Scotish down to a wimped and probably an air of resignation about the result.
But the real drama was yet to come, Griffiths with 2 decent free kicks. The goalkeeper wasn't great for either and I didn't even think the second was a free kick given what the ref had let go in the previous hour but that's not Scotland's problem. 2nd goal and bang...the place goes wild, I've never seen so many V's and W@nker hand signals aimed in our direction as I did at that moment in time. It was like you'd waited all your lives to beat us.
Game still not over though and with four minutes of time added on Harry Kane pops up at the far post to wipe the smile off the home support and send the Scotland players to there knees with a last minute equaliser....priceless for the 4K support in the away end.
Next stop for me, Malta in September
First and foremost...well done Scotland fans. Fantastic atmosphere in the ground, plenty of friendly banter flying backwards and forwards between the two sets of fans and hardly a spot of bother. Great to see the mutual applause for each others support as the Scotland fans left the ground to our right, never seen that anywhere before.
The game- dreadful and quite possibly the worst 2-2 draw I've ever witnessed and I've witnessed a few shocking Town games in the past 30years or so.
Scotland came flying out of the traps,got stuck in and tried to disrupt us, which they probably did for the first 15mins. After that England grew into the game, Harry Kane blasting one into orbit and then not getting any sort of decent connection on another gobber.
Referee- stamped his authority all over the game when he booked Brown early doors for smashing Ali, he knew what he was doing and yellow was right. The ref then went on to miss several handballs and fouls from both teams and seemed to lose the plot.
Half time- karaoke at Hampden Park, it's a first for me and it certainly roused the Scotland fans...much better than singing about Jimmy Saville. By the time the players came back out the crowd had whipped themselves into a frenzy...superb support!
Second half,Southgate takes off the ineffective Rashford to be replaced by the Ox, and bingo...we go one nil up. We calm the Scotish down to a wimped and probably an air of resignation about the result.
But the real drama was yet to come, Griffiths with 2 decent free kicks. The goalkeeper wasn't great for either and I didn't even think the second was a free kick given what the ref had let go in the previous hour but that's not Scotland's problem. 2nd goal and bang...the place goes wild, I've never seen so many V's and W@nker hand signals aimed in our direction as I did at that moment in time. It was like you'd waited all your lives to beat us.
Game still not over though and with four minutes of time added on Harry Kane pops up at the far post to wipe the smile off the home support and send the Scotland players to there knees with a last minute equaliser....priceless for the 4K support in the away end.
Next stop for me, Malta in September