leeblue
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Ok here goes, in reply to the quite frankly OTT reaction to losing a cup final we had done amazingly well to get to let alone win the thing and some seemingly deflated people who had ridiculous expectations of the day.
Awoken at 7:30 by my Dad banging on the front door singing wembleeeee wembleeee, he had just driven down from ipswich. He is an SUFC fanatic and the reason I was the same by the age of 4. My sixteen year old son opens the door and starts getting his butt in gear, I do likewise. We head out for some brekkie before boarding the 9:05 from southend east. The station was mobbed as was the train after a couple of stops it was standing sardine stylee in our carriage. Meet a couple of other SUFC nuts at west ham and off to the Globe.
The pub was rammed and a real good buzz was building. Back on the tube after a couple of shandies. The tube train was rowdy, plenty of chanting and lads jumping around. Good stuff then we arrive at the home of football and there it was a sea of peoples/flags/chants etc etc, just as i had pictured it, brilliant. We have a slow stroll up wembley way.
We make a beeline for the Bobby Moore statue, one of the finest players this country has ever produced and our former gaffer to boot. Got a great picture but cant upload it for some reason, three generations together for SUFC at wembley, amazing. Then quite nervously we go into the ground, go through the entrance to our block and just WOW, what a fantastic arena, I have been to barcelona, madrid, ajax arena and IMO this beat the lot, real colliseum feel to it (far better than the millenium stadium IMO) Then my team SUFC came out with all the glitz and hooha associated with such a game. The result was never ever important to me.
I notice quite an extreme reaction the the performance......really thought we did ok apart from the two goals and smith making a couple of saves, we could/should have got a goal out of the game and possibly a penalty too, I come back to expectations, we have been playing poorly for a while now and I have no idea why people suddenly thought this would change on the most famous ground in the world in front of the TV camera against a good team from the division above, the FACT not opinion FACT is we could have nicked something (not for one minute suggesting we were the better team) TAM really should have scored that header in the first half, I have seen that penalty appeal over and over form the first half and I have seen far softer given on many occasions, we had a goal ruled off for offside, one cleared off the line, an outstanding piece of defending to deny Mohsni, Corr should have done better with a header from the back stick......
Some saying there was a lack of effort, I am sorry to say this but what a load of bollocks, every player in blue gave there all but as usual many on here think that a lack of ability means a lack of effort, If i was marking the boys I would give Straker a 5, not because he didnt try but because he is not very good but he definitely put plenty of effort in.
So many amazing little bits of the day that I loved and so important to my son my dad and me, 11 men not winning a game of football was never going to dampen those things, in fact I will thank the players over and over for getting there and letting us forge some special memories.
Awoken at 7:30 by my Dad banging on the front door singing wembleeeee wembleeee, he had just driven down from ipswich. He is an SUFC fanatic and the reason I was the same by the age of 4. My sixteen year old son opens the door and starts getting his butt in gear, I do likewise. We head out for some brekkie before boarding the 9:05 from southend east. The station was mobbed as was the train after a couple of stops it was standing sardine stylee in our carriage. Meet a couple of other SUFC nuts at west ham and off to the Globe.
The pub was rammed and a real good buzz was building. Back on the tube after a couple of shandies. The tube train was rowdy, plenty of chanting and lads jumping around. Good stuff then we arrive at the home of football and there it was a sea of peoples/flags/chants etc etc, just as i had pictured it, brilliant. We have a slow stroll up wembley way.
We make a beeline for the Bobby Moore statue, one of the finest players this country has ever produced and our former gaffer to boot. Got a great picture but cant upload it for some reason, three generations together for SUFC at wembley, amazing. Then quite nervously we go into the ground, go through the entrance to our block and just WOW, what a fantastic arena, I have been to barcelona, madrid, ajax arena and IMO this beat the lot, real colliseum feel to it (far better than the millenium stadium IMO) Then my team SUFC came out with all the glitz and hooha associated with such a game. The result was never ever important to me.
I notice quite an extreme reaction the the performance......really thought we did ok apart from the two goals and smith making a couple of saves, we could/should have got a goal out of the game and possibly a penalty too, I come back to expectations, we have been playing poorly for a while now and I have no idea why people suddenly thought this would change on the most famous ground in the world in front of the TV camera against a good team from the division above, the FACT not opinion FACT is we could have nicked something (not for one minute suggesting we were the better team) TAM really should have scored that header in the first half, I have seen that penalty appeal over and over form the first half and I have seen far softer given on many occasions, we had a goal ruled off for offside, one cleared off the line, an outstanding piece of defending to deny Mohsni, Corr should have done better with a header from the back stick......
Some saying there was a lack of effort, I am sorry to say this but what a load of bollocks, every player in blue gave there all but as usual many on here think that a lack of ability means a lack of effort, If i was marking the boys I would give Straker a 5, not because he didnt try but because he is not very good but he definitely put plenty of effort in.
So many amazing little bits of the day that I loved and so important to my son my dad and me, 11 men not winning a game of football was never going to dampen those things, in fact I will thank the players over and over for getting there and letting us forge some special memories.
