[Lord Snooty]

July 7:

On this date in 2002, former Town and Man Utd goalkeeper, Ray Wood died in Bexhill-on-Sea, aged 71. I wrote about him earlier in the year on the date of his birth. Here's his obituary in the Guardian if you fancy a read......

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/ju...s.football

On this date in 2020, the post lockdown matches were now in full flow and kick off times were getting more random. Today's was a trip to Reading for the players, kicking off at six o'clock, while we all sat at home wishing we could be there. But all the same, thankful that we had i-player to watch it on.

It was another highly unmemorable game, slightly better than the previous one against PNE, but still a boring scoreless draw. Not that a point and a clean sheet was owt to be miserable about though. It moved us up to 18th on 47 points with four games left to play. And with bottom club Luton Town coming to the JSS for the next game, the target should be achieved sooner rather than later.    

Three clean sheets in a row was the big positive, but really Michael Olise should have won it for the Biscuitmen in the last minute but shot straight at Jonas Lossl with the last kick of the game.

Here's what Danny Cowley had to say......

"I thought it was a really good performance, it was a game where we had much more energy than we showed on Saturday, much more attacking intent.

"We didn't perhaps get full value for the performance or make the most of the chances we did create. We just lacked that little ruthless edge.

"But to keep three consecutive clean sheets at this stage of the season in these circumstances is great credit to the efforts of everyone. I thought defensively we were terrific against a Reading side, who looked very dangerous against Luton on Saturday.

"We're in touching distance of the 50 points target, but we don't quite know if that's going to be enough. We're very focused on the remaining four games and they're coming thick and fast."