On the Boardwalk
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A Carlisle friend of mine sent me this message which I thought quite interesting:
"The game was absolutely dire for an hour. Neither side could fathom a chance at goal. Thomson came on and the crowd came alive. They absolutely love him there, because he turned down a couple of other clubs to play for QoS for free (You can't imagine too many players turning out for nothing for the pride of ending their career helping out their home town club).
He scored with his first touch, made the keeper pull off a couple of blinding saves then popped up to score the winner.
We had two hours to wait for the train home, so we went into the social club, and as is usual with lower league football in Scotland, the players come in and sit down with the fans and have a chat about the game. You get the odd idiot shouting at them, but I think it's a really good thing, it kind of humanises the players.
Thomson was stood at the bar when I was there, so we got talking about how I always wanted United to sign him when he started off at Queens. He said that Carlisle would've been a good move so he wouldn't have to uproot, but we couldn't get the money together to sign him. He got talking about Southend, admitting that they're still the first result he looks for and when he goes on the internet and that the official website is one of the first he checks. I mentioned I knew a guy who was a supporter and he really perked up.
Said that his time there was the best of his career, but the injuries always held him back and he did consider taking the insurance money that he was offered once. He left Southend because of a falling out with somebody at the club, but wouldn't elaborate any further, except to say that if he ever wrote a book it'd be mentioned in there.
Once he signed for Gillingham, the money was better, but he felt that he'd left a club he felt of as home whereas they were just another club and began to regret it straight away.
Absolute top man, who put up with my brother and I for an hour and a half."
"The game was absolutely dire for an hour. Neither side could fathom a chance at goal. Thomson came on and the crowd came alive. They absolutely love him there, because he turned down a couple of other clubs to play for QoS for free (You can't imagine too many players turning out for nothing for the pride of ending their career helping out their home town club).
He scored with his first touch, made the keeper pull off a couple of blinding saves then popped up to score the winner.
We had two hours to wait for the train home, so we went into the social club, and as is usual with lower league football in Scotland, the players come in and sit down with the fans and have a chat about the game. You get the odd idiot shouting at them, but I think it's a really good thing, it kind of humanises the players.
Thomson was stood at the bar when I was there, so we got talking about how I always wanted United to sign him when he started off at Queens. He said that Carlisle would've been a good move so he wouldn't have to uproot, but we couldn't get the money together to sign him. He got talking about Southend, admitting that they're still the first result he looks for and when he goes on the internet and that the official website is one of the first he checks. I mentioned I knew a guy who was a supporter and he really perked up.
Said that his time there was the best of his career, but the injuries always held him back and he did consider taking the insurance money that he was offered once. He left Southend because of a falling out with somebody at the club, but wouldn't elaborate any further, except to say that if he ever wrote a book it'd be mentioned in there.
Once he signed for Gillingham, the money was better, but he felt that he'd left a club he felt of as home whereas they were just another club and began to regret it straight away.
Absolute top man, who put up with my brother and I for an hour and a half."
