It should have been yet another Great Escape for the Sky Blues but we well and truly blew it the week before and all of our crowd knew this would be our last home game in the Championship.
The Sky Blues have been down at the bottom of the Championship table since October so I knew there was a strong possibility of going down into League 1 but until it was mathematically impossible to stay up I KEPT THE FAITH. My aerobics ladies will testify my insistence that we were STAYING UP with constant positive whoop whoops when playing songs in class like ♫♪☺♪♫☺
Yazz...The only way is up
Erasure...Give a little respect ("I'll be forever blue")
Queen...Don't stop me now ("I'm a racing car passing by... like LADY GODIVA")
to name just a few. We had a good spell of form around Christmas when we actually moved OFF the bottom and OUT of the bottom 3 so who could blame me for thinking yet another (annual) Great Escape was on the cards? Our final run-in compared to that of Bristol City seemed perfectly doable, our games were against clubs at the bottom with us:- Forest, Millwall, Peterborough, Bristol City and Doncaster... surely we could and would pick up some points at most of these games.
I wanted to be part of it all!!
Our recent trip to Chepstow Races was fab but I had one ear and one eye on the City score (they were playing on the other side of the River Severn at Bristol.) I wanted to go the Ricoh for the Millwall game but it was my friend's birthday meal out so I had the phone on the table waiting for match updates. Imagine my delight when yesterday's cricket match was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch and I could go to the last home game of the season!!
It should have been a great day where we celebrated staying in the Championship for another week but none of the results had gone our way and we had only picked up two points in the previous 4 games.
To quote Brownie, "Yes, come down to the Ricoh Ali, but it will be like a funeral". How right he was. I couldn't believe how poor our performance was, we looked like we had already been relegated. It was dreadful. Where was the urgency??? We HAD to win this game!!
Doncaster,who actually HAD been relegated didn't really threaten Murphy but they closed us down every time we got the ball and looked much the keener side. Even their supporters were having fun in fancy dress.It was 2-0 to Donny. RELEGATION. Almost immediately I had an offer from a friend who supports Tranmere. "We can have a nice day out at Prenton Park and I can get us a free pie in the Presidents Lounge" (Sue K.) Diddy and Ben can't wait for the Stevenage fixture. I've lost my day out with Phil to the Boro. I'll have to stay up till 1.30am to see a highlight on the Football League Show.
We should never have left Highfield Road (I could walk there, none of this parking malarky)
We should never have sold Ben Turner.
We should never have changed the badge.
How can we "RISE AGAIN" when we have lopped the phoenix off the badge??
We should have won more matches!!!!!!!
To be fair I had a great day... a half price seat, at least 4 cups of tea, 3 hugs with Bussty, a quick chat with Oggy at the awards in the Eon Lounge after the game, a lorry free journey there and back to Chester and just great great company with Brownie, Dick, Pam, Sam, Jock and Rich.
Tomorrow at spinning I'll be playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba....
"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down"
"I get knocked down. but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down"
"I'll be singing. When I'm winning" PUSB PUSB ♫♪☺♪♫☺
The Sky Blues have been down at the bottom of the Championship table since October so I knew there was a strong possibility of going down into League 1 but until it was mathematically impossible to stay up I KEPT THE FAITH. My aerobics ladies will testify my insistence that we were STAYING UP with constant positive whoop whoops when playing songs in class like ♫♪☺♪♫☺
Yazz...The only way is up
Erasure...Give a little respect ("I'll be forever blue")
Queen...Don't stop me now ("I'm a racing car passing by... like LADY GODIVA")
to name just a few. We had a good spell of form around Christmas when we actually moved OFF the bottom and OUT of the bottom 3 so who could blame me for thinking yet another (annual) Great Escape was on the cards? Our final run-in compared to that of Bristol City seemed perfectly doable, our games were against clubs at the bottom with us:- Forest, Millwall, Peterborough, Bristol City and Doncaster... surely we could and would pick up some points at most of these games.
I wanted to be part of it all!!
Our recent trip to Chepstow Races was fab but I had one ear and one eye on the City score (they were playing on the other side of the River Severn at Bristol.) I wanted to go the Ricoh for the Millwall game but it was my friend's birthday meal out so I had the phone on the table waiting for match updates. Imagine my delight when yesterday's cricket match was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch and I could go to the last home game of the season!!
It should have been a great day where we celebrated staying in the Championship for another week but none of the results had gone our way and we had only picked up two points in the previous 4 games.
To quote Brownie, "Yes, come down to the Ricoh Ali, but it will be like a funeral". How right he was. I couldn't believe how poor our performance was, we looked like we had already been relegated. It was dreadful. Where was the urgency??? We HAD to win this game!!
Doncaster,who actually HAD been relegated didn't really threaten Murphy but they closed us down every time we got the ball and looked much the keener side. Even their supporters were having fun in fancy dress.It was 2-0 to Donny. RELEGATION. Almost immediately I had an offer from a friend who supports Tranmere. "We can have a nice day out at Prenton Park and I can get us a free pie in the Presidents Lounge" (Sue K.) Diddy and Ben can't wait for the Stevenage fixture. I've lost my day out with Phil to the Boro. I'll have to stay up till 1.30am to see a highlight on the Football League Show.
We should never have left Highfield Road (I could walk there, none of this parking malarky)
We should never have sold Ben Turner.
We should never have changed the badge.
How can we "RISE AGAIN" when we have lopped the phoenix off the badge??
We should have won more matches!!!!!!!
To be fair I had a great day... a half price seat, at least 4 cups of tea, 3 hugs with Bussty, a quick chat with Oggy at the awards in the Eon Lounge after the game, a lorry free journey there and back to Chester and just great great company with Brownie, Dick, Pam, Sam, Jock and Rich.
Tomorrow at spinning I'll be playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba....
"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down"
"I get knocked down. but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down"
"I'll be singing. When I'm winning" PUSB PUSB ♫♪☺♪♫☺
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| Post-match autographs in the E-on Lounge |
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